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Global and China IC Substrate Industry Report 2015DUBLIN, Mar. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/z3hbtn/global_and_china) has announced the addition of the "Global and China IC Substrate Industry Report 2015" report to their offering. It is expected that in 2015 the IC substrate market will encounter a 7% scale-down to USD 7.12 billion. In the downstream market, large screen mobile phone squeezed the living space of tablet PC which declined significantly. And the single-functional tablet PC is mostly used as a toy for children with less demand for replacement. In the field of smartphone, China as the world's largest smartphone market declined in 2014. SiP packaging substrate will be the highlight for IC substrate market in 2015 as core components of high-end smart watches must adopt SiP packaging. Both the two core processors built in Apple Watch use SiP packaging technology. The most important SiP substrate of Apple Watch calls for the most difficult production, priced 4-5 times higher than FCCSP applied to general ARM processor. The orders are shared by Nanya, Kinsus and other Taiwanese vendors. ASE undertakes Apple Watch's SI chip SiP packaging business. The PC market is also likely to recover in 2015 for tablet PC slump means the recovery of laptop computer market. Laptop computer market saw the first growth in 2014 after three consecutive years of decline and is expected to continue the trend in 2015. And laptop discrete graphics card accounts for a zooming proportion, signifying GPU shipments boost. Another excellent performer in IC substrate applications is the memory market. Global and China IC Substrate Industry Report, 2015 Highlights the followings:
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