The sapphire industry has seen completely different outcomes among application markets this year, according to a recent United Daily News (UDN) report.

Increased demands from the LED and mobile device application market have spurred sapphire manufacturers to expand sapphire ingot, sapphire wafer, and PSS production, according to the recent 2014 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report from LEDinside, the green energy research division of TrendForce.