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Also known as Corning Gorilla Glass

trademark for an alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass

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brand
Subclass of
glass
Named after
Gorilla
Owned by
Corning Inc.
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A Nokia N8 with a Gorilla Glass screen Gorilla Glass is a brand of chemically strengthened glass developed and manufactured by Corning Inc. Currently in its ninth generation, it is designed to be thin, light, and damage-resistant. Its surface strength and crack-resistance are achieved through immersion in a hot potassium-salt ion-exchange bath.

The alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass is primarily used as cover glass for portable electronic devices, including smartphones, smartwatches, portable media players, portable computer displays, and television screens. It is manufactured in Harrodsburg, Kentucky; Asan, South Korea; and Taiwan. As of October 2017, Gorilla Glass was used in approximately five billion devices worldwide. Despite its market dominance, Gorilla Glass faces competition from similar products, including AGC Inc.'s Dragontrail, Schott AG's Xensation, and synthetic sapphire.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gorilla Glass” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.