GT Advanced Technologies Inc. today announced that it has emerged from Chapter 11 as a newly reorganized company…
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Apple and GT Advanced reach new accord on $439 million loan
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. has reached an accord with Apple that will get it out from under $439 million in debt…
GT Advanced cuts 40% of workforce
GT Advanced Technologies Inc., which is trying to emerge from bankruptcy…
Apple’s sapphire producer grows the world’s largest sapphire crystal boule
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
Apple is objecting to bankrupt GT Advanced Technologies’ financing plan…
GT Advanced to pursue $95 million bankruptcy loan
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. is lining up $95 million worth of loans…
The death of sapphire and the birth of ‘Phire’
Last fall, after Apple introduced the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus…
How an Apple rumor sparked a sapphire revolution
For years, Gorilla Glass was the toughest material a mobile device could use to protect…
Apple supplier debuts phone with ‘unbreakable’ sapphire display
While the timetable for a sapphire-screen iPhone remains unknown…
GT Advanced files for chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection
NASDAQ may temporarily halt trading in the company’s stock pending…
Analysts: Apple’s iPhone 6 screen not likely to be sapphire
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
Corning shattered its recent winning streak on the stock market…
Apple reportedly now has enough sapphire for iWatch, 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones with full sapphire cover glass
The sapphire plant is expected to be completed in June…
Following Apple, Samsung and LG explore sapphire crystal displays
According to industry insiders cited by the Korean media earlier…
Apple reveals more details of their future sapphire cover glass
On May 22, 2014, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application…
GT Advanced provides update on Apple Arizona partnership in latest earnings results
GT Advanced Technology has given an update on the status of its contract…
Apple’s sapphire production will be hard for Samsung, other copiers to match
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
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
Apple for the first time started shipping sapphire from Mesa, Arizona to…
How Apple’s billion dollar sapphire bet will pay off big time
Apple is making a billion dollar bet on sapphire as a strategic material…
Apple’s iPhone 6 will demolish Android
If Apple wanted to actively pursue Android-like marketshare it would and easily could have done it a long time ago…
Quanta to build 65 million Apple ‘iWatch’ units in first year, Q3 2014 release expected – report
Apple’s iWatch will debut in the third quarter of this year and will include advanced sensors…
Apple plans to dramatically expand Arizona sapphire plant to boost output
Apple and sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies…
New photos of Apple’s sapphire plant show build progressing; rumors point to project expansion
Fresh photos of Apple’s Mesa, Ariz., sapphire plant…
New oleophobic patent application tips Apple’s hand on sapphire displays
In November, Apple signed a $578 million deal with sapphire producer GT Advanced Technologies…
Apple sapphire crystal display rumors buoy GT Advanced stock
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
In November 2013, Apple announced a $578 million deal with GT Advanced Technologies…
Gorilla Glass-maker Corning again slams sapphire; subtext aimed at Apple
A Corning executive launched a blistering critique of sapphire crystal…
What’s the deal with Apple’s new Arizona sapphire plant?
Basically, Apple has paid $113 million for an empty factory and loaned GT $578 million…
Apple, GT Advanced Technologies, and the ‘new’ vertical integration
Apple’s deal with GTAT is an ‘exclusive’ arrangement…
Apple’s iPhone 6 is not coming in May, but it is coming with sapphire
Because Apple sells more than 150 million iPhones a year…
Apple sapphire supplier’s projected 2H14 revenues likely indicate fall iPhone launch
GT-Advanced announced its Q4 2013 earnings results…
Why did Apple just snap up the entire planet’s supply of sapphire glass?
the sapphire crystal Apple already uses for the cover glass on the iPhone 5s…
Canonical CEO: Apple just bought up a 3-year supply of sapphire displays
Apple just snapped up the entire 3-year supply of the same sapphire display…
Apple to launch iPhone 6 with 4.7- and 5.5-inch sapphire crystal displays in September, sources say
The new iPhone screen will be made entirely from scratch-resistant sapphire crystal glass…
Apple’s massive sapphire plant for ‘iWatch,’ not next-gen iPhone, sources say
Apple will manage to fit sapphire screens on…
Why Apple’s iPhone 6 won’t need a case
Evidence that Apple is going big with sapphire is overwhelming…
Concept video shows off stunning, ultra-thin Apple ‘iPhone 6’
A stunning new concept video that shows off what might be Jony Ive’s ultimate goal…
Apple’s push into Sapphire manufacturing sends Taiwanese manufacturers scrambling to secure patents
Sapphire substrate applications in consumer electronics…
Apple just procured enough Sapphire Crystal furnaces to make 100-200 million 5-inch iPhone displays
Last year, Apple and GT Advanced struck a deal to open and operate…
Apple pushes for Arizona sapphire plant to go into production in February for ‘critical’ product component
In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening…
Apple makes at least 100 prototype next-generation iPhone units with sapphire-covered displays
Appel has at least 100 prototype next-generation iPhone units with sapphire-covered displays…
