By pioneering glass that is thin, lightweight, damage resistant, and responsive to touch, Corning is helping transform the way people use their smartphones. Today, Corning® Gorilla® Glass is featured on billions of mobile devices worldwide. We continue innovating with Gorilla Glass and other technologies to enhance performance, deliver new connectivity features, enable new designs, and support immersive user experiences with augmented reality and 3D sensing.
Innovating the next generations of thin, tough glass for mobile devices
Protecting Your Precious Device
Protecting Your Precious Device
Corning’s glass technologies have you covered to help protect against the inevitable drops and bumps of life with your device. Tough, beautiful Corning® Gorilla® Glass has continually raised the bar on protection for consumer electronics. It’s the cover glass of choice for more than 45 major manufacturers, and has been featured on more than 6 billion devices. Whether it’s for a smartphone, tablet, wearable, or laptop, we bring more than a decade of experience in delivering tough glass solutions to keep up with you and your adventurous life.
Corning relies on the ion exchange process to create Gorilla Glass’ durable surface. Our latest generation, Gorilla Glass 6, withstands multiple drops onto rough surfaces such as asphalt. At the same time, it transmits light exceptionally well for a bright, gorgeous display on screen. The glass is also thin, keeping your device lightweight and sleek.
Always evolving, Gorilla Glass enables many of the latest trends in consumer devices. Wireless phone charging is possible due to glass and glass-ceramic materials specially engineered for the back of the device. In addition, our glass phone backs come in vibrant colors and can be printed with images for endless style possibilities. And for wearbles, Corning’s new glass composite Gorilla Glass DX+ features the legendary toughness of Gorilla Glass while delivering superior antireflective optics and scratch resistance.
Corning is also partnering with electronics makers on new capabilities, such as augmented reality and 3D sensing technology, to reshape the world’s digital experience once again. The inherent properties of glass, paired with our industry-leading materials science and optical design expertise, make Corning uniquely suited to help customers deliver increasingly demanding functionality for consumer devices and Internet of Things applications. From the technology that recognizes your face, to the glasses enhancing your view of the world, Corning Precision Glass Solutions is collaborating with consumer device manufacturers to deliver the next-generation of life-changing innovations.
Enabling the Future of Mobile Consumer Electronics
New Capabilities for Augmented Reality
Creating the Market for Cover Glass
Creating the Market for Cover Glass
Protecting more than 6 billion devices
In 2007, a major technology company approached Corning about glass for its first smartphone. Plastic scratched too easily, so they wanted a more durable and elegant material. Drawing on decades of glass expertise, Corning delivered the product within six months and created the market for cover glass. To innovate rapidly, Corning scientists and engineers looked at their company’s research from the 1960s and experimented with more than a hundred glass compositions to come up with the right solution. Since then, Gorilla Glass has made its way onto billions of devices and gotten tougher with each generation.
Our Strategic Advantage in Consumer Glass Technologies
Our Strategic Advantage in Consumer Glass
To rapidly innovate in mobile consumer electronics, Corning combines its expertise in glass science and optical physics with its proprietary fusion manufacturing process. Corning first developed this manufacturing process for liquid crystal displays.
Learn how Corning leverages its focused portfolio to uniquely address the Mobile Consumer Electronics market.
Expertise in Glass
Expertise in Glass
Our glass science expertise allows us to formulate glass with the right properties for mobile consumer electronics, and continually innovate and expand.
Our glass science expertise allows us to formulate glass with the right properties for mobile consumer electronics, and continually innovate and expand.
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Precision Forming Process
Precision Forming Process
Corning's proprietary precision forming process helps form, shape or mold materials to meet customer requirements.
Corning's proprietary precision forming process helps form, shape or mold materials to meet customer requirements.
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Expertise in Optical Physics
Expertise in Optical Physics
We apply our optical physics expertise to create anti-reflective glass, which makes mobile devices and display screens in cars much easier to read.
We apply our optical physics expertise to create anti-reflective glass, which makes mobile devices and display screens in cars much easier to read.
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The Fusion Process
The Fusion Process
The fusion process is used to create Gorilla Glass. Fusion is a proprietary process that creates large, thin, pristine sheets of glass.
The fusion process is used to create Gorilla Glass. Fusion is a proprietary process that creates large, thin, pristine sheets of glass.
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Featured Mobile Consumer Electronics Stories
Corning and Apple Announce Continued Collaboration
Corning and Apple Announce Continued Collaboration
Learn MoreCorning will receive $200 million from Apple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Fund to foster innovation among American manufacturers.
Corning will receive $200 million from Apple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Fund to foster innovation among American manufacturers.
New Glass Innovations for Next-Gen Electronics
New Glass Innovations for Next-Gen Electronics
Learn MoreBuilt on a decade-long legacy of delivering the toughest cover glass available for consumer mobile devices, Gorilla Glass 6 is Corning's most durable cover glass yet. Gorilla Glass 6 improves upon Gorilla® Glass 5 by surviving drops from higher heights, but, more importantly, has been engineered to survive multiple drops.
Built on a decade-long legacy of delivering the toughest cover glass available for consumer mobile devices, Gorilla Glass 6 is Corning's most durable cover glass yet. Gorilla® Glass 6 improves upon Gorilla® Glass 5 by surviving drops from higher heights, but, more importantly, has been engineered to survive multiple drops.
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6
Learn MoreIntroducing Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6, our latest breakthrough in glass technology, surviving 15 drops from 1 meter onto rough surfaces, and is up to two times better than Gorilla Glass 5.
Introducing Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6, our latest breakthrough in glass technology, surviving 15 drops from 1 meter onto rough surfaces, and is up to two times better than Gorilla Glass 5.
Connecting Indian Communities with Corning Technology
Connecting Indian Communities with Corning Technology
Learn MoreIndia is the second largest smartphone market in the world with 300 million users across the country, making connectivity both difficult and in-demand.
India is the second largest smartphone market in the world with 300 million users across the country, making connectivity both difficult and in-demand.