Apple begins mass production of sapphire glass panels

  Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), built a factory in Arizona, together with a named partner company GT Advanced, its role being to produce sapphire glass panels for iDevices. The information comes with satisfaction announcing the financial results for Q2 2014, the company GT Advanced, Apple's partner, confirming through its financial evolution the fact that it started collaborating with those from Cupertino to start production in the Arizona factory.

The build-out of our Arizona facility, which has involved taking a 1.4 million square foot facility from a shell to a functional structure as well as the installation of sapphire growth and fabrication equipment, is nearly complete and we are beginning the transition to volume productionWe remain confident about the long-term potential of the sapphire materials business for GT.

  Those from GT Advanced he dedicates his entire production to sapphire glass collaboration with those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, the American company needing hundreds of millions of sapphire glass components annually to protect the camera and Home button of iDevices. Apart from these, Apple could also use sapphire glass to protect the screen iPhone 6, and this collaboration would be based on exactly this motivation, but it remains to be seen if it will have the expected result.

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  1. Poate este pentru iphone 6 si au inceput productia de la sfarsitul lunii iulie si abia acum apar zvonurile. Momentan s-au vazut doar componente interne de cand a inceput productia.