The other day I told you that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), concluded a strategic partnership with a company that processes sapphire, those from Cupertino investing almost 600 million dollars in the idea of obtaining a stock of sapphire panels sufficient to cover the demand in the coming years. At the moment Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), uses sapphire to protect the home button with touch ID al iPhone 5S, but also the main camera of the iDevices launched in recent years, so we are not talking about any recent changes.
However, this investment of those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), could be the basis of a major change in the future, the company being able to replace Gorilla Glassthe current one with sapphire glass panels. The company GT Advanced Technologies, in whose factory Apple invested 578 million dollars, recently purchased a company that has developed an ion particle accelerator that allows the cutting of sapphire glass into very thin strips. Given that sapphire is very hard and very difficult to cut, the new particle accelerator's laser could greatly simplify the cutting process, exponentially reducing production costs for sapphire panels.
Apple could drive the costs of sapphire sheets down incredibly low in comparison to the traditional method. It will be able to create many of these super thin sapphire sheets from the same amount of raw material it would take to make one full piece of sapphire cover glass. It could then laminate the assembly together in the way that it currently does iPhones. This, in turn, could mean sapphire cover sheets that are harder and tougher than standard glass materials on your iPhone years sooner than most analysts have predicted.
If the technological process will be perfected in due time, then we can expect that in the coming years the iPhones will have a much more resistant front panel than in the past, at least theoretically. The makers of Gorilla Glass they tried to demonstrate that their products are much more resistant than sapphire, but those from Apple have a completely different opinion and if they are right, then iPhones and iPad tablets will no longer have screens that will crack so easily. For all this theory to turn into reality, it is necessary that that particle accelerator can be used to produce sapphire panels on an industrial scale, so it remains to be seen how everything will turn out.
