Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) nowadays announced ASUS’s commit to style Corning® Gorilla® Glass a pair of into their newest 2012 devices. Corning Gorilla Glass a pair of is that the next generation of the widely accepted damage-resistant cowl glass for shopper electronic devices. This new glass permits up to twenty % reduction in cowl glass thickness, while not sacrificing the performance customers have return to expect from the world’s most generally deployed strengthened cowl glass.
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we've collaborated with Corning to bring the scratch resistance and sturdiness of Corning Gorilla Glass to the very fashionable ASUS Transformer family of product,” said Samson Hu, company vp, ASUS. “We forestall to the introduction of Corning Gorilla Glass a pair of because it provides product style opportunities never before obtainable. we will leverage these variations to deliver high-performing devices that are skinny and light-weight for an enhanced mobile computing expertise.”
“We’ve been happy to figure with ASUS to bring the scratch resistance and sturdiness of Corning Gorilla Glass to the ASUS Transformer family of product,” said David Velasquez, director of promoting and business operations, Corning Gorilla Glass. “As our customers drive toward thinner kind factors, Corning has worked to deliver an even-thinner cowl glass answer, whereas maintaining industry-leading harm resistance, toughness, and scratch resistance.”
ASUS expects to form specific product announcements and unveil new devices using Corning Gorilla Glass a pair of over the approaching months.
Introduced in 2007, Corning Gorilla Glass set the trade normal for harm resistant cowl glass. nowadays it's the foremost widely deployed cowl glass, employed by quite thirty major brands and designed into quite 575 product models spanning over five hundred million units worldwide.
Corning is demonstrating the new glass performance at the patron Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 10–13 Booth #12642 Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is that the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on quite one hundred sixty years of materials science and method engineering information, Corning creates and makes keystone parts that enable high-technology systems for shopper electronics, mobile emissions management, telecommunications and life sciences. Our product embrace glass substrates for LCD televisions, pc monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission management systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and alternative advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for variety of industries together with semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy, and metrology.
