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10, 50 and 100 day SMA converge on sept 09
Things won't get interesting till Sept 9
If every share traded today was a buy, it would amount to less than $1million transacted. Not such a big deal.
If Apple confirms the use of metallic glass, amorphous alloys, or Liquidmetal, this will trade more than 200 million shares. Mark my words. Once it's no longer a rumor, it becomes a fact.
If Apple uses Liquidmetal in a product, they will require a lot of it and it will get a lot of publicity. This will generate a lot of interest, drive demand to other industries and serve to legitimize the technology.
This should lead to revenue. It is like when Metal Injection Molding first became possible. It was very expensive. Now, it is still expensive, but much less expensive than when it was new technology
They heat the alloy within the engel machine and then form it into the mold..
I think this is a big indication.
Go to www.liquidmetal.com/our-products/who-we-work-with/
This page used to list Consumer Electronics. It is no longer listed. I wonder why :)
Full4god,
Atakan Peker always said the first application would be for a hinge. The mute button is a hinge. Also, due to the complex geometry of that part, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it is made of Liquidmetal.
If Apple announces the iPhone on September 9th, by the time it starts shipping and everybody is raving about it, our showroom will open.
If this iPhone has any Liquidmetal in it, commercializations could be swift as it could generate significant interest in LQMT
We need to sell millions, not thousands
Whomever named it the "Center of Excellence" is a hokey fool.
It should have been called something a little but more specific.
Liquidmetal Precision Performance Center
Center of Excellence says nothing about what it does!
Tomtom,
Steipp has said the machine was ready two years ago and that they had orders. Then those orders turned into prototypes.
I don't believe anything he says.
I don't believe in the company but I believe in the alloy. I just hope these idiots figure out how to monetize it for my benefit.
- Al Velasco.
I didn't hear any big news. What was it you were waiting to be announced?
On the left = void space
In the middle = metallic material
On the right, rubber
You don't really believe it's held together by rubber
This could be big.
It appears the breaks in the antenna on the most recent Apple iPhone pictures is of a metal material. The breaks are just covered in some type of place holder.
Are the metal connection bands liquidmetal? You be the judge.
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/12/additional-photos-silver-iphone-6-rear-shell/
Apple is putting resources behind the development of Liquidmetal. I believe it is due to the efficiency in manufacturing which will be possible. This is why I am heavily invested in the alloy.
I pray that it all comes together and believe the resulting spoke to the shares will be immediately rewarding. The main question is, when will it occur?
If the Apple logo were made of LQMT, wouldn't it have a much higher tolerance to reduce waste?
PATENT 8,776,566!!!!!!!!
Has anybody else seen this
That is not what I said. I said that Apple can purchase all of Engel's manufacturing capacity for years so that they are unable to supple anybody else with machines. I never implied they were using "the same" machine
I know that when the first machine is operational, LQMT won't be able to acquire one. This is because Apple will buy all the supply of those machines for a long time.
This is exactly what their strategy was with CNC devices. This is why nobody else can compete with aluminum unibodies. They can make enough of them to get the cost low because Apple bought up the future supply of the machines in order to kill the competition.
News on Macrumors RE: fuel cells
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/14/apple-intelligent-energy-fuel-cell/
Liquidmetal is proving to be an attractive and effective casing for wristwatches and jewelry. Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer is featuring the high-performance alloy as the casing of a new, special edition, state-of-the-art chronograph timepiece. The digital movement timepiece was unveiled at the BASEL 2003 World Watch & Jewelry Show as the Microtimer Concept Watch. Built upon TAG Heuer’s international reputation for precision, endurance, and technological innovation, it is fitted with the first Swiss electronic movement accurate to 1/1000 of a second.
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Apple today poached a high level employee of Tag Heuer. Interesting coincidence!
40,000,000
Major update to mobile website?????
I just looked up the Liquidmetal Technogies website in my
iPhone and it looks like it's been updated with new information.
Maybe it's just the formatting.
Otherwise, it looks like a rather informative update. Am I wrong??? Or am I right???
A $1,000 iWatch will not happen in mass production. People who want a designer watch are looking for a different kind of fashion. This will be a consumer device and will probably top out at approximately $650 at the high end.
I look forward to watch the shorts burn.
If the iWatch is a medical device and Liquidmetal gets a royalty as it's not covered under CE, how much would Liquidmetal earn if Apple sells 50 million devices?
If LQMT and APPLE are able to figure out how to make sheets of LQMT, then the rest is history. I think SpaceX, Tesla and Apple have the potential to send LQMT into the stratosphere
If the iWatch gets FDA approval, it is technically a medical device. What would this mean for LQMT
The 50 day SMA just bounced off the 200 day SMA.. I'd say that's bullish
I did not know Tony Chung was with Solar City. Isn't that Elon Musk's pet project??
Not going to happen. Major launches are announced at the iPhone event. They may have an incremental announcement like all laptops and iPads are retina display.
August will be the major announcement.
There will be no mention tomorrow as tomorrow is a software based presentation. The big hardware announcements always occur about two months before black friday.
Did you guys know that GT Advanced Technologies used to be called GT Solar and that they are looking to get into more advanced materials? They were a solar company that decided to get into more advanced materials and then struck the deal with Apple to produce their sapphire.
Being that their market cap is only $2 billion, I would say there is no way they will be buying Liquidmetal. That said, they are the perfect company to operate the Engel machinery.
iPhone 5S total weight = 132 grams.
iPhone 5S glass screen weight = 42 grams.
I'm not sure what the internals weigh but this just validates that Apple could choose to inject all of the rear plates for the new phone even at a greater size dimension.
If a molding machine can have 32 cavities, then one machine could precisely make 32 iPhone cases every 5 minutes. One machine could make 3,363,840 phones per year.
Is it me, or does it seem like this machine will never get shipped until Apple decides to use it in a big way. There is no supply chain possible for Liquidmetal and then BOOM (OUT OF NOWHERE, IT'S EVERYWHERE).
This is my dream but it seems like that is how they will surprise their competitors and immediately squish them like little blackberrys.
Steipp is a marionette
Here is a use for Liquidmetal. I wonder if they've thought of this.
RE: Paradigm Loudspeakers:
The Reference Signature S2 v.3 loudspeaker is a good example of what Paradigm can offer for $2598 USD per pair. Flash back to the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show: In my SoundStage! Network article "Mainstream Beryllium," I discussed the use in speakers of that element, which is light but dangerously toxic to work with. Many designers feel that beryllium’s extreme hardness and stiffness make it an ideal metal to make tweeter diaphragms from. A dome tweeter made of beryllium doesn’t "break up," or lose its shape and become nonpistonic, until it’s reproducing frequencies far above the upper limit of human hearing (generally regarded as 20kHz). Because a beryllium dome’s behavior remains linear to somewhere around 40kHz, what you hear up to 20kHz will be more accurate. Whereas beryllium-dome tweeters can be found in much more expensive speakers, Paradigm manages to offer their Signature models with 1" P-BE tweeters at prices that many audiophiles can afford (P-BE = pure beryllium). The P-BE tweeter in the S2 v.3 hands off to the bass/midrange driver at 1.8kHz via a crossover with a third-order slope.
Poop,
You may be right about Apple not using it right away. I have doubted for a long while now (months) that Apple will use this in the iPhone 6. Then again, who knows. The manufacturing costs (post processing) of aluminum is very expensive and the speed of manufacturing of Liquidmetal would offset some of the cost. Furthermore, these new formulations are expected to be less expensive than the older ones and the iPhone 5C infrastructure is already in place.
When Apple started making aluminum unibody cases for the MacBook Pro, they bought all the forward looking future supply of all computer numerical controlled devices. They bought the future capacity. Technically, Apple already has the factory laid out, they just need the turnkey devices which would allow them to make parts for numerous objects, not just the iPhone.
Apple could also use Liquidmetal for the buttons, headphone parts, connectors, iPhone, iPad, iWatch, etc. The greatest expense is the initial buildout of the factory which was completed years ago with the injection molding machines for the iPhone 5C.
We may not have any orders because Apple could be secretly purchasing all the supply and so no machines appear to be delivered. They haven't been delivered because everybody is under a non-disclosure agreement.
The beauty is that Apple pays Liquidmetal nothing. Liquidmetal derives no revenue from Apple. Liquidmetal will derive revenue from Materion and Engel, both of whom will receive revenue from Apple. It's quite brilliant.
If Apple does what they did with the unibody enclosures (secrecy) and don't forget that Tim Cook was the architect of the supply chain. Then this could be really interesting.
If you haven't yet, visit this link and watch the video. It's pretty cool.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/02/06/exclusive-apple-just-procured-enough-sapphire-crystal-furnaces-to-make-100-200m-5-inch-iphone-displays-in-arizona/
Watts,
Why would they only give 2 days notice before their conference call? That is out of the ordinary!
What do you make of this?
They need to make razor blades for shaving. Every man on the planet would buy it if they knew it wouldn't dull or need to be replaced.