Scrapes and bumps are a fact of life, but Corning® Gorilla® Glass enables your device to resist damage from the abuses that come with everyday use. Gorilla Glass also has strong aesthetic appeal. It’s thin, lightweight, and cool to the touch – enabling the sleekest designs. 

The unique composition of Corning® Gorilla® Glass allows for a deep layer of high compressive stress (created through an ion-exchange process). This compression acts as a sort of “armor,” making the glass exceptionally tough and damage resistant.

Ion exchange is a chemical strengthening process where large ions are “stuffed” into the glass surface, creating a state of compression. Corning® Gorilla® Glass is specially designed to maximize this behavior. The glass is placed in a hot bath of molten salt at a temperature of approximately 400°C. Smaller sodium ions leave the glass, and larger potassium ions from the salt bath replace them. These larger ions take up more room and are pressed together when the glass cools, producing a layer of compressive stress on the surface of the glass. Gorilla Glass’s special composition enables the potassium ions to diffuse far into the surface, creating high compressive stress deep into the glass. This layer of compression creates a surface that is more resistant to damage from everyday use.

No. That has been a popular myth, resulting from a misunderstanding of the facts. It’s true that Corning experimented with chemically strengthened glass in 1960, as part of an initiative called “Project Muscle.” In 1961, Corning developed a glass composition it promoted under the Chemcor® brand, which featured state-of-the-art strength and durability. Chemcor glass was incorporated into tableware, ophthalmic products, and applications for the automotive, aviation, and pharmaceutical industries. 

When Corning began developing a tough new cover glass for electronic devices in 2006, Corning scientists, of course, drew upon the company’s prior expertise with strengthened glass. However, Corning® Gorilla® Glass is a different product and glass composition than Chemcor. We implemented significant compositional as well as other changes to achieve superior product characteristics including outstanding damage resistance, while making the glass compatible with Corning’s proprietary fusion-draw manufacturing process. Corning’s fusion-draw process produces exceptionally thin glass with unparalleled surface quality. The result is a tough and damage-resistant glass that is ideal for today’s sleekest electronic devices and most sophisticated touch technology.

Corning’s proprietary fusion process creates an unparalleled surface quality. This extraordinarily precise, highly automated process produces glass with exceptionally clean, smooth, flat surfaces; outstanding optical clarity; and inherent dimensional stability. With the right process design, the glass can be used “as drawn,” eliminating grinding and polishing processes that add cost and may introduce surface flaws. This same fusion draw process is at the heart of Corning’s industry-leading LCD glass.

They serve different purposes: Corning® Gorilla® Glass is a cover glass for the exterior of display devices, while EAGLE XG® is a glass substrate used within liquid crystal display panels. Therefore, many electronic devices feature both Corning Gorilla Glass and EAGLE XG. While they are formed with the same manufacturing process, the chemical compositions of the glass are also different. EAGLE XG LCD glass is an aluminosilicate composition, while Gorilla Glass is an alkali-aluminosilicate glass.

Corning manufactures Corning® Gorilla® Glass within Corning facilities in the United States, China, Korea, and Taiwan.

Any glass can break if subjected to the right damage conditions and/or stresses. Corning® Gorilla® Glass can break but is better able to survive the real-world events that most commonly cause glass to scratch, chip, or break.

Corning® Gorilla® Glass is currently used by more than 45 major global OEMs and has been designed into more than 8 billion devices.
Check out this list for the most current, comprehensive collection of devices that Corning can confirm.

No. Unfortunately, customer agreements prevent us from identifying all the devices that feature Corning® Gorilla ® Glass. This list shows all devices we can talk about. We’ll continue to update the list as customers allow us to share that information.

Corning’s ion-exchange process makes Corning® Gorilla® Glass exceptionally durable, while allowing it to remain thin and lightweight enough to enable the sleekest smartphones and slates. Gorilla Glass can be produced at a thinness of 0.4 millimeters, just four times thicker than a human hair.

Corning sells to device manufacturers. Pricing for Corning® Gorilla® Glass is based on manufacturer-specific product requirements (e.g., thickness, size) and volume. We can’t speculate on what that might mean for the retail price of a particular device.