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According to Corning in-house research, “84% of consumers across three of the largest smartphone markets – China, India, and the United States — cite durability as the number one purchasing…
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Menlo Micro, a startup bringing semiconductor tech to the humble switch, is ready for its closeup
Sixteen years ago a group of material scientists and engineers at General Electric banded together to reinvent the circuit breaker. Now, Menlo Microsystems, the spin-off commercializing that technology, is ready to bring its revolutionary new switches to market, with huge implications for everything from 5G technologies to quantum computing. Based in Irvine, California, Menlo Micro…
Gorilla Glass Victus can survive a two-meter drop and is set to arrive on a Samsung device soon
You might not know Gorilla Glass by name, but odds are pretty good you own at least one device sporting Corning’s chemically strengthened glass composite. It’s been a ubiquitous feature…
View, the dynamic glass company that raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank in 2018, is laying people off
View, a 13-year-old, Milpitas, Calif.-based company that makes dynamic glass designed to reduce heat and glare as well as lessen eyestrain, has cut an unknown number of employees, including at…
Apple awards another $250 million to precision glass maker Corning
As part of Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund, Apple is investing $250 million in Corning, a supplier that has been working on glass for the iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad. Apple…
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Review: iPhone XS, XS Max and the power of long-term thinking
The iPhone XS proves one thing definitively: that the iPhone X was probably one of the most ambitious product bets of all time. When Apple told me in 2017 that they put aside plans for the iterative upgrade that they were going to ship and went all in on the iPhone X because they thought…
A bit of good news for the perpetually clumsy. Corning unveiled the latest version of its ubiquitous smartphone-encasing material today at an event in California. Gorilla Glass 6 is, naturally,…
Nokia unveils its new slate of Android smartphones starting at $85
Nokia — in its newest iteration as a licensed brand of HMD — is a long way off from its glory days, the years when it not only set the…
Crunch Report | Waymo v. Uber is going to trial
Makers of Gorilla Glass Corning gets a $200 million investment from Apple, Waymo v. Uber is going to trial and Xiaomi is set to open 100 stores in India. All…
Gorilla Glass maker Corning gets $200 million from Apple’s US manufacturing investment fund
Apple made news and scored some positive PR earlier this month when the company announced a $1 billion fund aimed at investing in US-based manufacturing. Now it’s ready to announce the…
Corning’s stronger Gorilla Glass 5 is hitting devices later this year
Corning has managed the remarkable feat of making smartphone glass – if not sexy exactly, at the very least compelling. Smartphone makers tend not to go out of their way…
Why Apple Bought $578M Worth Of Sapphire In Advance
Apple is building a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will be used by GT Advanced Technologies to make sapphire crystals for use in its products. Apple currently uses sapphire in…
Over $1B In Gorilla Glass Sales In 2012 Helps Propel Corning To New Single Quarter Sales Record
Corning announced its quarterly results today, and the company beat Wall Street expectations despite a drop in quarterly earnings, thanks in part to a 14 percent year over year increase…
Gorilla Glass Gets Around: Now Featured On 1 Billion Devices Worldwide
Corning’s Gorilla Glass got famous for being the scratch-resistant front screen cover material on Apple’s iPhone. Then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs talked Corning CEO Wendell Weeks into producing production quantities of…
Corning Inc. is betting that big that LCD’s popularity will exploded over in China. It recently announced plans to build a $400 million to $700 million glass-melting plant within China…
Berlin-based eagleyard Photonics is currently working on the development of a green laser to be used in mobile projectors, i.e. in cell phones. The laser features optical output power of…