UBS Securities said in a report on Wednesday, April, sapphire material production of Apple's future product increased five-fold.
UBS Securities report protagonist is GT Advanced Technologies, GT Advanced Technologies is Apple sapphire material suppliers. High hardness of sapphire material will not be scratched, and is currently being used in the main button on the iPhone 5S. Sapphire material can theoretically be used to replace the current iPhone gorilla glass.
The report notes that "We found that in April GT Advanced Technologies sapphire factory in Arizona did well, display supplier to Apple shipped 1,000,000 sapphire material, an increase of 5 times higher than in March."
The report also mentions the use of sapphire material products: iWatch or iPhone 6. But UBS Securities prefer sapphire material will be used in larger iPhone 6, "If all these sapphire material is released for November month when iPhone 6,9 5.5 inches needed to reach 10 million per month."
Apple last November reached an agreement with GT Advanced Technologies, invest $ 578 million in the sapphire material factory.
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