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Corning's USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt cables smaller, lighter, longer

by Steven Sande (Jan 8th, 2013)

Corning, the same company that brought you the Gorilla Glass used on most smartphones, announced new optical Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 cables yesterday at CES. The cables make use of Corning's ClearCurve VSDN optical fiber technology to extend data transmission range while being smaller and ...

Gorilla Glass 3 panels to be 50 percent stronger, more scratch resistant

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 4th, 2013)

Corning, maker of the glass panels found in all iPhones and iPads, has announced the next generation of Gorilla Glass. Gorilla Glass 3 panels will be three times more scratch resistant, have a 50 percent increase in the panel's retained strength after a the glass becomes flawed (cracked or ...

Corning Gorilla Glass now used in over 1 billion devices worldwide

by Steven Sande (Oct 24th, 2012)

Gorilla Glass is the ultra-hard, scratch-resistant material that debuted on the original iPhone. When that seminal smartphone was in development, Apple CEO Steve Jobs talked Corning CEO Wendell Weeks into starting mass production of Gorilla Glass. It was a good thing that Weeks listened, as ...

How Corning developed the iPhone glass

by Dave Caolo (Sep 25th, 2012)

WIRED has published a compelling look at how Corning created Gorilla Glass, which is used in iPhones. Steve Jobs went to Corning in 2005 and convinced CEO Wendell Weeks that is company could invent a new type of glass within six months. That meeting was related in Walter Isaacson's bio of Jobs, ...