Over the weekend, the DigiTimes server brought a new claim that GT Advanced will only produce a small amount of sapphire lenses for the Apple. Although the two companies opened a large factory in Arizone, GT Advanced should produce only 9 to 16% of all sapphire glass for the new phone model iPhone. DigiTimes refers to the forecasts of GT Advanced, which expects a profit of $188 million to $348 million.
From this result, DigiTimes expects the company to produce only 6,3 to 11,6 million sapphire crystals for Apple, which represents roughly 9 to 16,6% percent of the entire production, if we consider that Apple in 2014 it will produce 70 million units of the phone iPhone with a 5-inch display. However, this claim contradicts the expectations of analyst Matt Margoilsa, according to which GT Advanced purchased 518 sapphire processing machines and is still waiting for another 420. According to him, he could with such a large number Apple produce a total of more than 200 million slides per year.
Maybe it also means much cheaper production than everyone expected. According to one analyst's estimate, how much one slide will cost does not mean that he knows about all the technologies he has Apple in the sleeve.
Although Apple has experience with a factory full of modern automated machines that just stood there and were useless NEXT.
This mainly means that the slides are not for iPhone.