Apple buys enough sapphire crystal furnaces to produce 200M large iPhone displays a year
Apple orders hundreds of sapphire crystal furnaces that can churn out millions of iPhone panels per year
With the machines already installed, the Mesa, Arizona facility can have "between 103 million and 116 million ~5-inch displays per year" produced, claims the analyst. The additional gear that is waiting assembly can raise that output to around 200 million panels even, which would cover the potential iPhone 6 sales nicely.
Couple that with the rumored 4.7-4.8" screen for the next iPhone, and we might indeed see the tough sapphire material used over the next iPhone's touchscreen.
source: 9to5Mac
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