Apple ready to mass-produce sapphire displays for future smartphones

Apple is reportedly all geared up to mass produce sapphire screens to be used in future mobile devices.

By:ANI
| Updated on: Feb 07 2014, 11:45 IST
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Apple is reportedly all geared up to mass produce sapphire screens to be used in future mobile devices.


The tech giant is known to have placed a large order with GT Advanced Technologies for furnaces and chambers required for making sapphire displays.

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According to Cnet, sources revealed that GT Advanced has already received 518 furnace and chamber systems, which would let it build 103 million to 116 million 5-inch displays per year.

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Apple had signed a contract with the company last year to produce sapphire-based materials at Apple's new facility in Arizona, and has used the element fir the surface of the rear camera lens of iPhone 5 and the Touch ID fingerprint scanner in the iPhone 5S.

The report said that the artificially made sapphire screens could render smartphones scratch-resistant and nearly unbreakable nature.

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First Published Date: 07 Feb, 11:42 IST
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