The iPhone 5s and IPhone 5c are barely out of the gate, but we may already know one feature of next year's iPohne 6: a super-hard sapphire glass display.
Apple has struck a deal with a US supplier for sapphire glass, which will be produced at a plant in Arizona for future iPhone and iPad devices.
According to USA Today, GT Advanced Technologies will make the super-hard glass for Apple products, employing around 700 people at a currently-vacant factory in east Mesa, Arizona.
The deal was announced by GT Advanced Technologies in a regulatory filing on Monday afternoon. "The sapphire glass that GT will make in the facility will be used to cover the camera lenses in Apple's phones and the fingerprint-reading devices in its latest products. GT's technology also can be used to make scratchproof glass covers for smartphones, although it is not used for that purpose by Apple today".
GT forecasts that d sapphire-glass production will ramp up its sales 2014.
Apple is understood to be purchasing the manufacturing plant for the supplier. The tech firm confirmed the deal had been struck but would not be drawn on details of its future plans for sapphire glass in new products.
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