Items tagged with GT Advanced Technologies

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 04, 2015

Apple Settles With Failed Sapphire Supplier GT Advanced For $439 Million

In an alternate reality, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s lines would both use a hardened sapphire crystal glass material produced by a company called GT Advanced Technologies. Things happened that soured the business relationship between Apple and GTAT, sending the latter into bankruptcy and, now a year later, a settlement... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 03, 2015

Apple's Troubled Sapphire Plant To Gain New Life As $2B Data Command Center

Turning lemons into lemonade (on a massive scale), Apple is planning to pour $2 billion into a facility in Mesa, Arizona that just a few months ago was occupied by GT Advanced Technologies, which was supposed to be churning out sapphire-crystal displays for iPhone 6 devices. The investment will transform the factory... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Sat, Oct 11, 2014

Apple Drives Sapphire Crystal Supplier Into Bankruptcy With 'Oppressive' Business Terms

Earlier this week, Apple's partner for sapphire display technology, GT Advanced Technologies, filed for bankruptcy claiming that it could not continue operating in its present state. Today, some of the documents originally filed were unsealed and we got a closer look -- including GT Advanced Technologies plan to... Read more...

Items tagged with GT Advanced Technologies

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