Corning Brings Gorilla® Glass NBT(TM) to Touch-Enabled Notebooks
29 Luglio 2013 - 2:30PM
New cover glass helps prevent damage to touchscreen
displays; extends Corning Gorilla Glass into new
market
CORNING, N.Y., July 29, 2013
- Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today
introduced its newest cover glass, Corning® Gorilla® Glass NBT(TM),
designed to help protect touch notebook displays from scratches and
other forms of damage that come from everyday handling and use.
Gorilla Glass NBT is Corning's unique glass
solution for touch-enabled notebooks. Touch is becoming the primary
way consumers are interacting with their mobile devices, and with
increased touch comes the potential for the glass to scratch.
Scratches can result in the cover glass breaking when the devices
are subject to normal day-to-day usage. Corning Gorilla Glass NBT
provides enhanced scratch resistance, reduced scratch visibility,
and better retained strength once a scratch occurs to help protect
notebook displays from breakage that can occur with
lower-performing soda-lime glass.
Consumers want thinner, sleeker, and
lighter-weight personal computers featuring touch technology.
Noted as the next wave in touch technologies by market
research groups, touch-enabled notebooks have the potential to
approach the size of the current smartphone cover glass market
within the next few years. Corning Gorilla Glass NBT delivers the
cost-effective scratch and damage resistance that consumers have
come to expect of the world's leading cover glass solution to this
new mobile device market.
"Known as the cover glass of choice, Corning
Gorilla Glass now extends its exceptional capabilities into the
emerging touch-enabled notebook market," said James R.
Steiner, senior vice president and general manager, Corning
Specialty Materials. "We are confident that Corning Gorilla Glass
NBT will outperform legacy soda-lime glass, delivering eight
to 10 times more scratch resistance. In fact, for just 1
to 2 percent of a notebook's retail price, consumers can now
get the best cover glass solution: a Gorilla solution. Simply put,
we believe that if you don't have Gorilla on your device, it's not
as good."
Similar to a handheld or tablet device, the
consumer's physical interaction intensifies with a touch-enabled
notebook device to include swiping, tapping, gripping, and
cleaning. Everyday interaction with these notebook devices can
result in scratched cover glass and a compromised user experience.
Corning's consumer research indicates that complaint rates for
scratching on notebooks are already up to four times higher
compared to other mobile devices. Replacing the screen can be
expensive and sometimes cost as much as half of the full notebook
price, while leaving the user without a device for days.
"As a leader in touch-enabled computing, Dell is
always seeking the finest materials to ensure our notebook screens
are impact and scratch resistant," said Sam Burd, vice president,
PC Product Group, Dell. "We're integrating Corning Gorilla Glass
NBT into our new client devices launching this fall, further
enhancing our industry leading product reliability and
durability."
Corning Gorilla Glass NBT is currently available
and is expected to be featured on several notebook product models
by leading global brands later this year.
For more information on Corning Gorilla Glass NBT,
please visit www.corninggorillaglass.com.
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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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M. Elizabeth Dann
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dannme@corning.com
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(607) 974-6716
nicholsoas@corning.com
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