iPhone 6 is to be launched this fall by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, he will have the screen protected by a sapphire glass panel, company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), recently entering into a partnership for the acquisition of a factory that produces this type of panels. Although information was circulated according to which Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), could produce up to 200 million panels of this kind for iPhone 6, it seems that in the end the real production figures could be much, much lower.
US-based GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) is setting up a factory in Arizona for exclusive supply of sapphire to Apple, with the factory to be able to meet only 9.0-16.6% of demand for sapphire used in screen covers of a new-generation iPhone in 2014, according to Digitimes Research. The estimate is based on GTAT's forecast sales of US$188-348 million from sapphire material (not including sapphire crystal growing equipment and technology). Typical production cost for a 4-inch sapphire wafer is US$30, Digitimes Research indicated.
According to some information appeared today, the company that Apple relied on to produce the most sapphire glass panels for iPhone 6 could manufacture only 16% of what is needed, Apple will have to contract other partners. Although the figures are far from official or reliable, if they are true, then Apple may have trouble meeting the demand in the market for the iPhone 6, the same thing happens year after year with each new model of the iPhone. iPhone.
Regardless of whether or not Apple will have enough sapphire glass panels, the demand will be higher than the supply anyway, or at least that's what Apple will give us to understand.
