谢谢 学习了 以后要小心这种完全被一个大客户左右的公司
他和Apple的那个协议有问题
In hindsight, it is unclear whether Apple ever intended to purchase any
sapphire furnaces from GTAT. Indeed, after months of extensive negotiations
over price and related terms, Apple demanded a fundamentally different deal:
Apple no longer wanted to buy furnaces from GTAT; instead, Apple offered an
arrangement that required GTAT to borrow money from Apple to purchase
furnace components and assemble furnaces that would be used to grow sapphire
for Apple. The new structure, as a contract matter, shifted all economic
risk to GTAT, because Apple would act as a lender and would have no
obligation to purchase any sapphire furnaces, nor did it have any obligation
to purchase any sapphire material produced by GTAT. At the same time, Apple
constrained GTAT from doing business with any other manufacturer in or
supplier to the consumer electronics market, subject to extreme penalties...
有点像dotcom泡沫的时候 Lucent那个故事了