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Apple supplier GT Advanced: Confidentiality pact rules out bankruptcy explanation

Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:52 pmThursday, October 9, 20146 Comments

Apple has been known in general to place strict confidentiality requirements on suppliers…

Apple ‘surprised’ by GT Advanced’s bankruptcy filing

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:27 pmWednesday, October 8, 20148 Comments

Apple Inc said on Wednesday it was surprised by supplier GT Advanced’s bankruptcy filing…

Shattered sapphire dreams at GT Advanced

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 8:35 amWednesday, October 8, 201410 Comments

The rapid meltdown of GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) remains shrouded in mystery, but…

Apple’s withholding of $139 million payment led to GT Advanced bankruptcy filing

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 6:02 pmTuesday, October 7, 201436 Comments

Apple’s decision not to use sapphire for iPhone 6/Plus followed tests in which the material proved too brittle…

GT Advanced CEO sold 9,000 shares the day before Apple’s iPhone 6/Plus event

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 4:29 pmTuesday, October 7, 201423 Comments

One day before Apple announced that its new iPhones would not use sapphire screens…

Law firms launch investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws by GT Advanced

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 1:55 pmTuesday, October 7, 201410 Comments

Levi & Korsinsky, LLP is investigating GT Advanced Technologies Inc…

Analyst: Apple may take possession of sapphire furnaces from GT Advanced

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:28 amTuesday, October 7, 201420 Comments

According to GT Advanced’s latest 10-Q filing, the facility in Arizona is owned by an Apple affiliate…

Apple to provide debtor in possession financing to GT Advanced?

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 9:04 amTuesday, October 7, 201418 Comments

Monday news broke that took almost everybody in the Apple investor ecosystem by surprise…

Investors stunned over GT Advanced bankruptcy filing

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 8:35 amTuesday, October 7, 201415 Comments

Stock and bond market partisans of sapphire screen maker GT Advanced…

GT Advanced files for chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection

Monday, October 6, 2014 12:28 pmMonday, October 6, 201421 Comments

NASDAQ may temporarily halt trading in the company’s stock pending…

Former GT Advanced employee appears to confirm Apple’s plans for sapphire displays

Sunday, September 7, 2014 12:00 pm16 Comments

Paul Matthews, a former GT product manager, outright claims that…

Future Apple iPhone displays could employ VC-funded solar tech from GT Advanced

Thursday, August 21, 2014 5:31 pmThursday, August 21, 201412 Comments

The GT Advanced/Twin Creeks process is known as Proton-Induced Exfoliation…

Apple and GT Advanced rampup sapphire production in Mesa

Monday, August 11, 2014 4:00 pmMonday, August 11, 20143 Comments

The massive facility is nearly finished and is ramping up production…

GT Advanced earnings call signals sapphire ahead for Apple

Friday, August 8, 2014 8:56 am5 Comments

What we learned during the GT Advanced earnings call this week is that…

iPhone 6 will have sapphire glass thanks to GT Advanced’s hoard

Thursday, August 7, 2014 3:03 pmThursday, August 7, 201425 Comments

Not only has the company been ramping up production in a serious way, it also has a hoard of sapphire…

GT Advanced expects sales of sapphire production tools to boost profit; shares surge

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 8:34 am8 Comments

Sapphire glass, which is slightly less hard to diamond, could make Apple’s products even better…

Apple and GT Advanced open second sapphire plant in Salem, Massachusetts

Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:58 amThursday, June 19, 20145 Comments

A second Apple synthetic Sapphire Plant has been revealed…

GT Advanced: UBS sees rising sapphire production for future Apple product

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 6:01 pmWednesday, May 28, 20145 Comments

Steven Chin of UBS today reiterates a Buy rating on shares of GT Advanced…

GT Advanced provides update on Apple Arizona partnership in latest earnings results

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 8:13 pm5 Comments

GT Advanced Technology has given an update on the status of its contract…

Apple begins shipping sapphire from GT Advanced’s Arizona plant to China ahead of iPhone 6 launch

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:58 pmWednesday, April 30, 20145 Comments

Apple for the first time started shipping sapphire from Mesa, Arizona to…

Apple sapphire crystal display rumors buoy GT Advanced stock

Monday, March 17, 2014 3:01 pmMonday, March 17, 2014No Comments

GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) stock was up 2.5% in early afternoon trading…

Looking Ahead, GT Advanced Technologies looks incredibly cheap

Friday, February 28, 2014 4:31 pmFriday, February 28, 201410 Comments

Shares of GT Advanced Technologies have absolutely crushed it over the past 14 months…

Apple, GT Advanced Technologies, and the ‘new’ vertical integration

Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:20 amThursday, February 27, 201410 Comments

Apple’s deal with GTAT is an ‘exclusive’ arrangement…

Apple partner GT Advanced recruiting for Jobs at Arizona sapphire plant

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:12 pmTuesday, January 21, 201416 Comments

GT Advanced, Apple’s manufacturing partner for its new sapphire glass plant…

GT Advanced Technologies spikes on sapphire deal with Apple

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 6:02 pm9 Comments

GT Advanced Technologies Inc. rallied on Tuesday after it secured…

Apple strikes sapphire supply deal with GT Advanced

Monday, November 4, 2013 5:45 pmMonday, November 4, 201342 Comments

Apple has struck a sapphire furnace/supply deal…

Hyundai learns the hard way, if you’re dealing with Apple, shut up about it

Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:35 pm10 Comments

Hyundai seems to have be the latest to learn the hard way that if you’re dealing with Apple, keep quiet about it. Don’t issue statements…

Apple’s AirPods Pro are powered by lithium-ion micro-batteries made by German manufacturer Varta

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:44 pmWednesday, October 30, 2019No Comments

A Commerzbank AG analyst has gone to great lengths to prove that Apple Inc.’s latest AirPods Pro earbuds are powered by…

Apple sued by glass material producer over breach of contract in ongoing sapphire debacle

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 12:00 pmTuesday, January 23, 20182 Comments

Years after a disastrous first foray into sapphire production, Apple’s troubles…

With President Trump soon to take office, Apple looks to boost its ‘Made in America’ credentials

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:28 amTuesday, January 10, 201722 Comments

Apple has submitted a notice to the US Foreign Trade Zones Board…

Make America Insanely Great Again: Apple seeks to expand Made in USA manufacturing

Monday, January 9, 2017 11:35 pmTuesday, January 10, 201762 Comments

Amid pressure to build products at home, Apple is seeking to conduct…

Tim Bajarin: Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 may mark the end for sapphire screens

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 10:49 amWednesday, July 27, 20167 Comments

While sapphire is a very hard material and very scratch proof, there is one major problem…

Apple: Hedging Donald Trump’s threat

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 3:27 pmWednesday, March 9, 201621 Comments

If you’re concerned that the prospect of a protectionist U.S. President Trump could start to weigh on Apple shares…

Apple Store staff will now expertly apply a Belkin screen protector to your iPhone

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 3:22 pmTuesday, February 9, 201611 Comments

Apple is now deploying its new screen protector program to Apple Stores across the United States…

Apple’s sapphire producer grows the world’s largest sapphire crystal boule

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 1:00 pm12 Comments

In July, the factory, based in the Russian city of Stavropol, grew a sapphire crystal that weighed…

Apple objects to bankrupt sapphire supplier’s financing plan

Friday, July 17, 2015 4:04 pmFriday, July 17, 20155 Comments

Apple is objecting to bankrupt GT Advanced Technologies’ financing plan…

Fire damages Apple’s former sapphire-screen factory in Mesa, Arizona

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 8:27 amWednesday, May 27, 20156 Comments

A fire broke out on Tuesday at Apple’s…

The death of sapphire and the birth of ‘Phire’

Friday, February 27, 2015 2:25 pm8 Comments

Last fall, after Apple introduced the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus…

Apple doesn’t get a state payout (proof Arizona’s incentives work)

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 2:55 pmWednesday, February 4, 201511 Comments

The Apple data center coming to the former First Solar building near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport…

Apple did not ask for incentives for new $2 billion data center in Mesa, Arizona

Monday, February 2, 2015 7:42 pm33 Comments

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona Commerce Authority promised Apple $10 million…

How an Apple rumor sparked a sapphire revolution

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:38 pm9 Comments

For years, Gorilla Glass was the toughest material a mobile device could use to protect…

Why Apple dumping Intel processors would be disastrous

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:03 pm48 Comments

Apple will drop Intel processors to better manage the launch cycle…

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