Apple’s withholding of $139 million payment led to GT Advanced bankruptcy filing
Apple’s decision not to use sapphire for iPhone 6/Plus followed tests in which the material proved too brittle...
View ArticleShattered sapphire dreams at GT Advanced
The rapid meltdown of GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) remains shrouded in mystery, but...
View ArticleApple ‘surprised’ by GT Advanced’s bankruptcy filing
Apple Inc said on Wednesday it was surprised by supplier GT Advanced's bankruptcy filing...
View ArticleApple supplier GT Advanced: Confidentiality pact rules out bankruptcy...
Apple has been known in general to place strict confidentiality requirements on suppliers...
View ArticleApple, GT Advanced in secret session with bankruptcy judge
A bankruptcy judge is huddling privately with GT Advanced Technologies Inc. and Apple Inc...
View ArticleGT Advanced to request to shut down synthetic sapphire production
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (GTAT) plunged more than 17 percent...
View ArticleGT Advanced blames ‘oppressive and burdensome’ Apple terms in quest to ax...
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. asked for bankruptcy court permission to shut down...
View ArticleThe GT Advanced debacle: Where does Apple go from here?
Apple may come into possession of the Mesa sapphire furnaces, but...
View ArticleGT Advanced suggests it could sue Apple
GT Advanced Technologies Inc said it will cut 890 jobs...
View ArticleApple’s got a mess on its hands in Mesa, Arizona
GT Advanced committed to the larger experimental furnaces for the Mesa plant...
View ArticleU.S. Trustee and state of New Hampshire: GT Advanced must reveal bankruptcy...
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (GTAT) should be ordered to file a public account of why it filed for bankruptcy...
View ArticleApple wants to file secret objection to GT Advanced motion
Apple Inc. asked a court for permission to file under seal its objections...
View ArticleGT Advanced COO sold $2 million in stock after sapphire deal with Apple began...
An executive from bankrupt Apple supplier GT Advanced Technologies...
View ArticleGT Advanced bankruptcy judge challenges Apple’s penchant for secrecy
Judge Henry Boroff moved briskly to the heart of what mattered to Apple...
View ArticleGT Advanced confidentiality hearing with Apple delayed
Apple Inc. supplier GT Advanced Technologies Inc. has delayed a challenge...
View ArticleGT Advanced Technologies Inc. suspended by Nasdaq
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. stock is going over to the pink sheets after shares plummeted...
View ArticleApple, GT Advanced near settlement over secrecy
Apple and newly bankrupt GT Advanced Technologies are nearing an agreement...
View ArticleGT Advanced, Apple ink deal for ‘amicable’ split-up
GT Advanced Technologies has signed a pact with Apple Inc...
View ArticleApple and GT Advanced settlement: Ending the madness
The best clue to the failure is that only about half of the 2,000 furnaces were operational...
View ArticleGT Advanced announces settlement with Apple; to exit sapphire production
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. and Apple have reached a settlement agreement...
View ArticleApple promises to help former GT Advanced employees find new jobs
So much for Apple’s multiyear sapphire manufacturing alliance with GT Advanced...
View ArticleApple ponders future sapphire options, leaves door open for GT Advanced
The move follows the reappointment of Rob Glaser to the position of permanent CEO...
View ArticleBeleaguered GT Advanced says it can’t afford to fight mighty Apple, must settle
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. said it needs to settle disputes with Apple Inc. because...
View ArticleBeleaguered GT Advanced describes ‘unsustainable’ Apple relationship
A few weeks before the bankruptcy filing, he said, executives made a detailed presentation to Apple senior management...
View ArticleApple and GT Advanced: What went wrong
A story that Apple tried for three weeks to suppress is now part of the public record...
View ArticleJudge orders GT Advanced bankruptcy papers unsealed
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. lost a bid to keep an executive’s description...
View ArticleGT Advanced says Apple settlement will survive unsealing
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. said a bankruptcy court settlement with Apple...
View ArticleU.S. SEC opens investigation into Apple supplier GT Advanced
The SEC is seeking information about trading activity and the company’s sapphire glass...
View ArticleApple suppliers shunned as GT Advanced bankruptcy sparks selloff
Investor confidence in Apple Inc.'s suppliers and vendors is wavering...
View ArticleCourt unseals GT Advanced documents: Apple says it ‘bent over backwards’ to...
New Hampshire court on Friday published hundreds of pages of documents...
View ArticleGT Advanced COO claims Apple used ‘bait and switch’ tactic
Apple Inc. used 'bait-and-switch' tactics in negotiating a contract...
View ArticleApple sticking with Arizona plan after sapphire supplier GT Advanced falters
Apple Inc. has told officials in Mesa, Arizona, that it’s committed...
View ArticleApple will save jobs in Arizona by repurposing sapphire factory
Apple has already found new sapphire suppliers in Asia...
View ArticleGT Advanced Tech creditors chafe at settlement deal with Apple
Creditors of GT Advanced Technologies complained in a bankruptcy court filing...
View ArticleLack of experience, mismanagement doomed GT Advanced’s sapphire adventure
The Apple-GT marriage was troubled from the start....
View ArticleApple shields information in GT Advanced creditor probe
Creditors of failed smartphone screen material supplier GT Advanced...
View ArticleGT Advanced bond traders drawn to prospect of Apple lawsuits
This is going to be a field day for the lawyers and accountants...
View ArticleGT Advanced gets court approval of revised Apple settlement
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Henry Boroff said at a hearing in Springfield, Massachusetts...
View ArticleGT Advanced to sell its sapphire furnaces
All previous exclusivity restrictions have been lifted and GT retains control...
View ArticleGT Advanced wants bankruptcy judge to approve millions in executive bonuses
GT Advanced Technologies Inc., the manufacturing company...
View ArticleGT Advanced to pursue $95 million bankruptcy loan
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. is lining up $95 million worth of loans...
View ArticleApple objects to bankrupt sapphire supplier’s financing plan
Apple is objecting to bankrupt GT Advanced Technologies’ financing plan...
View ArticleGT Advanced cuts 40% of workforce
GT Advanced Technologies Inc., which is trying to emerge from bankruptcy...
View ArticleApple and GT Advanced reach new accord on $439 million loan
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. has reached an accord with Apple that will get it out from under $439 million in debt...
View ArticleApple’s failed sapphire partner GT Advanced Technologies emerges from bankruptcy
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. today announced that it has emerged from Chapter 11 as a newly reorganized company...
View ArticleTim Bajarin: Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 may mark the end for sapphire screens
While sapphire is a very hard material and very scratch proof, there is one major problem...
View ArticleApple sued by glass material producer over breach of contract in ongoing...
“Years after a disastrous first foray into sapphire production, Apple’s troubles with the super hard glass, or more precisely its manufacturers, continue, as the company on Monday was saddled with a...
View ArticleApple’s would-be sapphire glass supplier GT Advanced charged with fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission on May 3, 2019 charged a New Hampshire-based company and its former CEO with misleading investors about the company’s ability to supply “sapphire glass” for...
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