For those of you who thought apple was dead: Apple filed solar patents that will allow them to power their electronic devices directly through solar cells. Apple posted and filled a Thin Films Engineer position with solar experience. Apple signed a $578m contract with GT Advanced Technologies to provide sapphire materials (sapphire cover screens) Apple announced they would be spending $10.5B in capital during fiscal year 2014 including cutting edge lasers. Apple recently posted a Manufacturing Design Engineer position that includes scribing and PVD coating which relate to thin films (solar cells) and lasers. Over 100 iPhones have been assembled with sapphire covered displays. Did Apple place an initial order last week for $68m worth of solar cell coating equipment, so they could use lasers to scribe solar cells onto sapphire screens, for the iPhones and iPods that will be released in 2014? If you think Apple is done innovating, even after they add the solar powered iPhone and iPod, under a sapphire hood in 2014, think again.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:54:22 +0000
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