14 DAY TRIAL // Almost two years after licensing its metallic glass IP to Apple, Liquidmetal Technologies has begun shipping amorphous alloy parts to several clients worldwide. The news comes just moments before Apple’s scheduled iPad 3 unveiling at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California.
In a press release that has just hit the wires, Liquidmetal Technologies “announced that its manufacturing operations are currently in the midst of shipping commercial parts to several of its customers world-wide.”
The company also reveals that “Parts delivery began this past December with continuing shipments scheduled for the months ahead.”
Apple is a licensee of Liquidmetal’s IPs. The company gained rights to use the metallic-glass material in 2010 via a licensing deal signed between the two companies. The material can be molded into “stronger, lighter, and more corrosion resistant parts,” according to its makers.