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AliAz

01/02/14 4:54 PM

#42273 RE: AsiaT #42268

If anyone will make an amorphous metal alloy casing for Apple - iPhone or iWatch, it will be Foxxconn.

Foxconn is Apple's largest supplier. Foxconn has an Amorphous Metal Alloys (referred to by some as LiquidMetal, but not by Apple or Foxconn) Division.

Foxconn announces new Pennsylvania facility

CNN-Money Nov 22, 2013:

"Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics contract manufacturer to many U.S. tech giants, will spend $30 million on a new factory in the Harrisburg, Pa., area that will employ up to 500 people, according to state officials.

The company, which a year ago said it was looking at expanding its U.S. operations, will also give $10 million to Carnegie Mellon University as part of a strategic research and development partnership with the Pennsylvania college. The money will go towards research and education in the fields of robotics and advanced manufacturing."

LQMT has no mfr capabilities and has disavowed mfr. Visser Precision Cast is not a manufacturer. It is a tax expense for Furniture Row via the Furniture Row advertising/promotion expenses Furniture Row pays Furniture Row Racing, which writes off expenses for "work" done by Visser Precision Cast. VPC has no other customers, and Furniture Row Racing has no sponsors other than Furniture Row.

GTAT makes Sapphire Glass which may well be used as the display surface on a future Apple product. Perhaps they could make a case of Apple's licensed amorphous metal alloy processes, but Foxconn is more likely since they already have a division dedicated to amorphous metal alloys and are Apple's largest supplier.

Even if either Foxconn or GTAT were to use the new (alleged) LQMT designed, but Engel sold, built and supported backend add-on to Engel injection molding machines, there is not a single shred of evidence that LQMT would receive direct revenues. Furthermore, Apple has fee-free access to all Crucible patents and downstream processes per the Crucible MTA with LQMT. The only fees Apple would pay would be to Engel. And there is still no evidence that there is a production capable Engel machine. Nor any statements from LQMT that they would receive direct revenue for the sale of the machine they supposedly designed. All there is is an LQMT PR and the subsequent promulgation thereof by bogus web/blog so-called news, financial or tech sites.