Apple now has exclusive rights over a number of special alloy materials for unique atomic structure makes the latest generation iPad, iPhone and iPod are more sturdy and lightweight. Steve Jobs’ company that apparently makes such license alloy materials produced by a company called LiquidMetal.
“Apple’s interest to companies such as Liquidmetal is not something surprising. It supports Apple to continue to fulfill his desire to create a more slender device, a thin and robust,” writes Neil Hughes in the site reports AppleInsider.
Alloy materials was mentioned materials will be used for Apple’s latest mobile device so it will be stronger, lighter and rustproof. Meanwhile, LiquidMetal claimed that the alloy material they produce two and a half times stronger than titanium and a half times harder than stainless steel materials commonly used in portable electronic devices.
“Along with the increasing demand for smaller gadgets products, metal materials LiquidMetal enables design of smaller devices, thin and durable,” he said, adding representatives from LiquidMetal, several other ingredients that were produced are also used in the smartphone Nokia Vertu, Sandisk Mp3 player Sansa and the SanDisk U3 Smart Drive.