Do you want to have such a hard apple?

San San - August 18th news, when the first generation of Apple Corp iPhone glass screen to replace the traditional plastic screen for the smart phone industry sketched out a blueprint. Today, Apple has hit $700 million, with a harder, more expensive sapphire screen to replace the glass screen, bet this screen can provide better protection for future products.

The Apple Corp will use the sapphire screen in the upcoming big screen iPhone and new smart watches, is expected the first batch of sapphire screen this month will be put into operation in a factory in Arizona mesa, this factory is apple and sapphire glass manufacturer GT Advanced Technologies Inc. jointly opened. Viy, a senior analyst at French research company Yole Developpement (Eric Virey) said, under the full load condition, the factory of the sapphire screen production will reach two times the current nearly 100 of the world's total production of sapphire glass manufacturers.

Wei Lei said, in the past no one put so much money on the sapphire glass.

GT and Apple will work together to produce artificial sapphire, the chemical composition and physical properties of the same as the natural sapphire. Sapphire is one of the hardest natural minerals on the earth, not as easy to scratch or broken glass, high temperature and corrosion resistance characteristics.

However, due to the high cost of production, artificial sapphire is not widely used, generally only for aircraft windows or high-grade watches scratch resistant flower case.

Apple Corp has been in the iPhone camera lens and fingerprint identification device used on sapphire, but the wider use of sapphire can solve the problem of fragile mobile phone screen. SquareTrade provides protection for mobile phone screen damage, according to the company estimates that 11% of iPhone users have encountered a breakdown or damage to the phone screen.

It takes a considerable risk to change such an important component as a screen. The production of high intensity gorilla glass iPhone Corelle has proven itself to meet the requirements of apple production speed, and the ability to produce millions of mobile phone screen before the release of new products. If Apple Corp and GT in trouble on the production of sapphire screen problems, Apple Corp's supply chain may be destroyed, resulting in insufficient supply peak demand. In addition, the actual use of the sapphire screen is really better than the existing screen, but also an unknown.

Analyst Virey estimates that the cost of sapphire screen may be $16, while gorilla glass cost about $3.

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