More than 500 million U.S. dollars investment in research and development of the sapphire mobile phone Apple spotted

Before we have seen more about Apple will use the sapphire material in the next generation of iPhone news reports, and recently came the Apple Corp has signed a purchase order message sapphire and GT Advanced Technology Company.

According to the latest report shows that the first amount of the purchase order contract for $578 million, and the money will be regarded as a Apple Corp of GT Advanced Technology Company next generation advanced sapphire furnace (ASF) in advance of investment, which can not only create for the Arizona factory 700 jobs and generating employment opportunities for 1300 buildings the workers, but also can bring more high quality and low price of sapphire products for apple in the future. With Apple's capital injection, GT Advanced Technology Company will build a special factory in Arizona for the next generation of ASF production. The GT Advanced Technology Company to do is to serve apple for 5 years from 2015. GT Advanced Technology Company said the contract will allow them to obtain unprecedented profits. In 2014, GTAT's annual revenue will reach $600 million to $800 million, and most benefit from the sapphire project. By 2016, that number will double.

Sapphire for Apple's future product development will play an extremely important role, part of Touch ID's new mobile phone brings a new generation of iPhone in 5S is the use of sapphire crystal, believe it will become the development trend of apple products. In the future, the sapphire material used in iPhone 6 will have a lower cost and better technology, so the next generation of iPhone and not because of the substantial use of sapphire material and greatly enhance the cost. At the same time, the use of sapphire material display will be more than 2.5 times the existing Corelle gorilla glass panels to enhance the durability of iPhone, and more resistant to scratch, not prone to scratches.

So far, we do not know the next generation of Apple's iPhone will have what kind of characteristics, but for the majority of fans, still very much looking forward to iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S and iPhone 5 have obvious differences and adopt new design concept. At the same time, in addition to the replacement of sapphire glass panel, the next generation of Touch ID fingerprint identification technology will have a larger and more applications in the field of iPhone. But all this needs to wait until September 2014 or October to answer the question.