We mentioned there isten
day GT Advanced setbacks, the company which was to provide Apple with
quantities of sapphire crystal, normally provided for iPhone 6 screens
and 6 plus.
The supplier, engaged in a co-company with Apple, who had bet
enormously on this production, has not been able to hold its
commitments whether in quality or quantity. Result, aplacement in
safeguard procedureSurprise, apparently for Apple
also.
Since then, Apple has been fighting for confidential information relating
The partnership is not communicated. We just learned that both
ex-partner signed an "amicable" agreement:
According to this agreement, GT Advanced will be able to resell the equipment of
its establishment of Mesa, in Arizona, in order to reimburse Apple, which had
participated in the creation of the factory. In return, the two ex-partner
would be resolved from their contractual (drastic) relations. Documents
confidential which could have been published as part of the procedure
safeguard will not be published.
Unfortunately, this is accompanied by a closure of the factory, which would have
employ nearly 800 people.
A real industrial fiasco which shows that if the bet of becoming
supplier for iPhone is potentially a great accelerator to
A company can also fail.
Will we suddenly see ultra-resistant crystal iPhone screens
to sapphire?
Perhaps, but a priori they should not be produced by GT Advanced,
knowing that Apple already has suppliers for Touch ID buttons from
The iPhone and for the Apple Watch window, to come in early 2015.
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Equal: AG Tescience
founder of the site. IT engineer and specialist in the Internet where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for Team Palmtops magazine (Posse Presse) and author of several works on the iPad at PEARSON.
