The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Apple had indeed need to be equipped with a screen of sapphire. That reports The Wall Street Journal. Production problems at the now bankrupt manufacturer GT Advanced Tech would be a spanner in the works have thrown.
Apple would only be 10 percent of the promised sapphire have received from the manufacturer, writes The Wall Street Journal on the basis of an internal document. Half of the blocks of the sapphire that GT Advanced Tech, which is now bankrupt, produced would be defective.
This summer was the rumor that Apple’s sapphire for the screens of a new iPhone. The fingerprint reader and camera of the iPhone were already equipped with a layer of sapphire, which is very strong and virtually impossible to scratch. Finally, it was also the more expensive variants of the Apple Watch available screens out of synthetic sapphire.
GT Advanced Tech promised Apple larger blocks of synthetic sapphire, more than 260 pounds, more than twice as many as were produced. Then borrowed the Apple company 493 million dollars, converted to 393 million euros, to a factory. Also bought Apple for $ 500 million in a factory, for $ 100 per year to the company would let.
However, there were serious problems with the production, which GT Advanced Tech finally $ 900 million – equivalent to 717 million euros – spent. Also, there were serious problems with the management: as there were too many employees assumed for the number of ovens available, so many workers had nothing to do. At the beginning of October, the company asked the bankruptcy.
Errors with the production of sapphire, from a document of Apple
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