Sentences with phrase «produce sapphire glass»

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Despite developments that make non-glass materials superior for certain smartphone functions (think sapphire, which is hardier than glass for device covers but thicker and much more expensive to produce), there has been no lull in the demand for glass R&D.

Apple is one of Corning's biggest companies and the company planned to move away from Gorilla Glass with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, switching instead to sapphire produced by GT Advanced.

Apple has partnered with a company called GT Advanced to build a manufacturing plant in Arizona that should be able to produce enough artificial sapphire glass for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of iDevices.

Due to the complexity of this process, devices with a sapphire screen are produced to meet much more stringent standards using more advanced technology than conventional glass screens.

Apple clearly hasn't managed to find a manufacturer that can produce the hardened sapphire glass it wants to use following the blunder that was GT Advanced Technologies.

Sapphire Glass is made out of crystallizing aluminum oxide, produced at high temperatures and pressures.

According to a newly leaked Kyocera testing video on YouTube that's being corroborated by CNET, Kyocera is producing sapphire crystal display coverings in smartphone sizes and testing them up against traditional impact - resistant glass found in current smartphones.