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Tag: sapphire displays

The GT Advanced debacle: Where does Apple go from here?

Friday, October 10, 2014 3:26 pm15 Comments

Apple may come into possession of the Mesa sapphire furnaces, but…

GT Advanced blames ‘oppressive and burdensome’ Apple terms in quest to ax sapphire production

Friday, October 10, 2014 1:01 pmFriday, October 10, 201449 Comments

GT Advanced Technologies Inc. asked for bankruptcy court permission to shut down…

GT Advanced to request to shut down synthetic sapphire production

Friday, October 10, 2014 9:28 amFriday, October 10, 201410 Comments

GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (GTAT) plunged more than 17 percent…

Apple, GT Advanced in secret session with bankruptcy judge

Thursday, October 9, 2014 3:01 pm11 Comments

A bankruptcy judge is huddling privately with GT Advanced Technologies Inc. and Apple Inc…

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…

Tim Bajarin: Why Apple didn’t use sapphire iPhone screens

Monday, September 15, 2014 11:06 pmTuesday, September 16, 201426 Comments

My sources tell me that sapphire was never targeted for the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus…

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…

Analyst: All 5.5-inch iPhone 6 models to feature sapphire displays, some 4.7-inch models

Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:26 pmThursday, August 28, 201411 Comments

According to sources close to Foxconn’s manufacturing operations the iPhone 6…

Horace Dediu: Sapphire will become a signature feature across many Apple products

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:01 pmTuesday, August 26, 20144 Comments

The scope of the plant they are building with GT implies that they will have massive volume…

iPhone 6: Sorting through fact and fiction around Apple’s next-gen marvel

Monday, August 25, 2014 1:26 pmMonday, August 25, 20143 Comments

Expectations are particularly high for the iPhone 6…

10 credible future Apple product claims for this week

Thursday, August 21, 2014 3:30 pmThursday, August 21, 201411 Comments

Apple executives have been promising an amazing year of Apple products…

Apple’s next-gen iPhone could crack GT’s Advanced stock

Monday, August 18, 2014 5:00 pmMonday, August 18, 20145 Comments

Apple is expected to announce its new iPhone on September 9…

Apple considers offering two larger, higher-end, iPhones with sapphire displays at higher prices

Thursday, August 14, 2014 4:52 pmThursday, August 14, 201413 Comments

Apple Inc. created the blueprint for a smartphone…

Why Apple might use sapphire over glass in new iPhone display

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 12:58 pmWednesday, August 13, 201410 Comments

Sapphire displays and new types of glass surfaces could mean…

Will Apple save sapphire seduction for iPhone 6s?

Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:59 pmThursday, July 31, 20148 Comments

The sapphire screen would be the perfect follow-on for the…

Analysts: Apple’s iPhone 6 screen not likely to be sapphire

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:01 pmWednesday, July 30, 201424 Comments

The necessary orders for sapphire glass wending their way through the supply chain…

Corning stock cracks on Q2 earnings miss; Gorilla Glass hurt by weak Samsung phone sales

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:02 pmTuesday, July 29, 20149 Comments

Corning shattered its recent winning streak on the stock market…

Why sapphire iPhone screens could be Apple’s next big thing

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:27 amTuesday, July 29, 20147 Comments

As Apple was readying its plans for the launch of the first-generation iPhone…

Following Apple, Samsung and LG explore sapphire crystal displays

Friday, May 23, 2014 9:29 amFriday, May 23, 201412 Comments

According to industry insiders cited by the Korean media earlier…

Apple reveals more details of their future sapphire cover glass

Thursday, May 22, 2014 2:01 pmThursday, May 22, 20144 Comments

On May 22, 2014, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application…

Apple’s sapphire production will be hard for Samsung, other copiers to match

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:58 amWednesday, May 7, 201429 Comments

After sealing a deal with GT Advanced for the manufacture of sapphire crystals at a new plant in Arizona…

Rising sapphire display cost may limit 5.5-inch iPhone 6 production, source claims

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:02 pmTuesday, May 6, 201422 Comments

The majority of leaks and rumors concerning the iPhone 6…

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…

How Apple’s billion dollar sapphire bet will pay off big time

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:29 amTuesday, April 22, 201413 Comments

Apple is making a billion dollar bet on sapphire as a strategic material…

Apple’s iPhone 6 will demolish Android

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 9:01 amWednesday, April 9, 201449 Comments

If Apple wanted to actively pursue Android-like marketshare it would and easily could have done it a long time ago…

Apple plans to dramatically expand Arizona sapphire plant to boost output

Friday, March 28, 2014 10:27 amFriday, March 28, 201411 Comments

Apple and sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies…

New photos of Apple’s sapphire plant show build progressing; rumors point to project expansion

Thursday, March 27, 2014 3:01 pmThursday, March 27, 20143 Comments

Fresh photos of Apple’s Mesa, Ariz., sapphire plant…

New oleophobic patent application tips Apple’s hand on sapphire displays

Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:53 amThursday, March 27, 20149 Comments

In November, Apple signed a $578 million deal with sapphire producer GT Advanced Technologies…

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…

Apple’s adoption of sapphire may not have much impact on Corning

Monday, March 10, 2014 11:29 amMonday, March 10, 20148 Comments

In November 2013, Apple announced a $578 million deal with GT Advanced Technologies…

Gorilla Glass-maker Corning again slams sapphire; subtext aimed at Apple

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 12:00 pmWednesday, March 5, 201448 Comments

A Corning executive launched a blistering critique of sapphire crystal…

What’s the deal with Apple’s new Arizona sapphire plant?

Friday, February 28, 2014 1:14 pmFriday, February 28, 201421 Comments

Basically, Apple has paid $113 million for an empty factory and loaned GT $578 million…

Apple’s iPhone 6 is not coming in May, but it is coming with sapphire

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:01 amWednesday, February 26, 20145 Comments

Because Apple sells more than 150 million iPhones a year…

Apple sapphire supplier’s projected 2H14 revenues likely indicate fall iPhone launch

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 1:01 pmTuesday, February 25, 20143 Comments

GT-Advanced announced its Q4 2013 earnings results…

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