Folks are always curious as to what Apple is up to, since the fruity company has a track record for working on super cool products in absolute secrecy. Now the company might have let slip some minor details during its Q1 results call. It’s been discovered that Apple has identified a new area that it is making a long-term investment for components in. While the technology wasn’t revealed, the deal is said to be strategic, involved pre-payments, and is worth $3.9 billion over two years.
The arrangement is actually pretty similar to the flash memory agreement back in 2005 that later found major use in the iPods, iPhones and iPads. At this point, speculation is that since Apple has a lot of dependency on mobile displays, it might be interested in securing some multi-touch or high-resolution panels, though we’ll have to wait and see what comes out of this deal.
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