Corning Unveils New Gorilla® Glass 2
09 Gennaio 2012 - 2:30PM
Business Wire
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) introduces Corning® Gorilla®
Glass 2, the next generation of the company’s widely accepted,
damage-resistant cover glass for consumer electronic devices, at
the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
The outstanding performance benefits of this new glass will be
showcased through live demonstrations in the Corning booth, #12642
Central Hall, during show hours tomorrow, Jan. 10, through Friday,
Jan. 13.
Corning(R) Gorilla(R) Glass 2 (Photo:
Business Wire)
Corning Gorilla Glass 2 enables up to a 20 percent reduction in
glass thickness, while maintaining the industry-leading damage
resistance, toughness, and scratch resistance customers have come
to expect from the world’s most widely deployed cover glass. The
thinner Gorilla Glass 2 enables slimmer and sleeker devices,
brighter images, and greater touch sensitivity. These benefits can
provide electronics manufacturers with superior design flexibility
as they address consumer demand for increasingly high-performing,
touch-sensitive, and durable mobile devices.
“Corning Gorilla Glass has enjoyed tremendous market adoption in
the high-growth mobile handset and computing device market,
providing a replacement for plastic and legacy soda-lime glass as a
protective cover and elegant design solution,” said James R.
Steiner, senior vice president and general manager, Corning
Specialty Materials.
“We knew Corning Gorilla Glass could get even better. So, in
response to our customers’ drive toward thinner form factors, we
designed this new glass to enable meaningful reduction in thickness
without sacrificing the outstanding glass performance for which
Gorilla Glass has become highly recognized. This glass, along with
Windows operating system innovations from Microsoft, will help
deliver exceptional beauty, performance, and toughness for new
Windows PCs. You will see this early this year with Windows-based
PCs which we expect to be the first in-market laptops designed to
leverage the performance of our new second-generation glass,”
Steiner remarked.
"We’re very excited about the introduction of Corning’s thin,
high-performing Gorilla Glass 2,” said Nick Parker, vice president,
Worldwide OEM Marketing, Microsoft. “As Windows continues to bring
new experiences to customers on new devices, we look to Corning to
bring innovative, durable glass solutions that enable brighter
images and greater touch sensitivity."
Product qualification and design implementation for Corning
Gorilla Glass 2 are underway with Corning’s global customers, a
number of whom are expected to unveil new devices using Corning
Gorilla Glass 2 during the coming months.
First introduced in 2007, Corning Gorilla Glass set the industry
standard for damage-resistant cover glass. Today it is the most
widely deployed cover glass, used by more than 30 major brands and
designed into more than 575 product models, spanning more than 500
million units worldwide.
As one of the company’s fastest growing businesses, Corning
Gorilla Glass is expected to reach more than $700 million in 2011
sales, nearly triple 2010 results.
Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” (within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995), which are based on current expectations and assumptions
about Corning’s financial results and business operations, that
involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties
include: the effect of global political, economic and business
conditions; conditions in the financial and credit
markets; currency fluctuations; tax rates; product demand
and industry capacity; competition; reliance on a concentrated
customer base; manufacturing efficiencies; cost reductions;
availability of critical components and materials; new product
commercialization; pricing fluctuations and changes in
the mix of sales between premium and non-premium products; new
plant start-up or restructuring costs; possible
disruption in commercial activities due to terrorist activity,
armed conflict, political or financial instability, natural
disasters, adverse weather conditions, or major health concerns;
adequacy of insurance; equity company activities; acquisition and
divestiture activities; the level of excess or obsolete inventory;
the rate of technology change; the ability to enforce patents;
product and components performance issues; retention of key
personnel; stock price fluctuations; and adverse litigation or
regulatory developments. These and other risk factors
are detailed in Corning’s filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of
the day that they are made, and Corning undertakes no obligation to
update them in light of new information or future events.
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in
specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of
materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning
creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology
systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control,
telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass
substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops;
ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems;
optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for
telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery;
and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a
number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense,
astronomy, and metrology.
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