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Corning and Acer Continue Collaboration with Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2

Dépèche transmise le 9 janvier 2012 par Business Wire

Corning and Acer Continue Collaboration with Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2

CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced its continuing collaboration with Acer Incorporated, which plans to use Corning^® Gorilla^® Glass 2 on new computing devices released in 2012. Corning Gorilla Glass 2 is the next generation of the widely deployed damage-resistant cover glass for consumer electronic devices. This new glass enables up to a 20 percent reduction in cover glass thickness, without sacrificing the performance consumers have come to expect from the world’s most widely deployed strengthened cover glass.

“We design high-performing, mobile products that enhance the total on-the-go computing experience”

“We design high-performing, mobile products that enhance the total on-the-go computing experience,” said Campbell Kan, president of Personal Computer Global Operations, Acer Incorporated. “We are impressed with the design opportunities presented by this new glass innovation and how it supports the latest technology trend towards devices that are multitouch, lightweight, and durable.”

“Corning’s new glass composition, Gorilla Glass 2, which enables slimmer and sleeker devices, brighter images, and greater touch sensitivity, is an ideal solution for Acer’s products,” said David Velasquez, director of Marketing and Commercial Operations, Corning^® Gorilla^® Glass. “We’ve been pleased to collaborate with Acer to bring scratch resistance and durability to the Acer ICONIA family of products and look forward to their introduction of Corning Gorilla Glass 2 devices later this year.”

First introduced in 2007, Corning Gorilla Glass set the industry standard for damage-resistant cover glass. Today it is the most widely deployed cover glass, used by more than 30 major brands and designed into more than 575 product models, spanning over 500 million units worldwide.

Corning is demonstrating the new glass performance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jan. 10 – 13 at Booth #12642 Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” (within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995), which are based on current expectations and assumptions about Corning’s financial results and business operations, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include: the effect of global political, economic and business conditions; conditions in the financial and credit markets; currency fluctuations; tax rates; product demand and industry capacity; competition; reliance on a concentrated customer base; manufacturing efficiencies; cost reductions; availability of critical components and materials; new product commercialization; pricing fluctuations and changes in the mix of sales between premium and non-premium products; new plant start-up or restructuring costs; possible disruption in commercial activities due to terrorist activity, armed conflict, political or financial instability, natural disasters, adverse weather conditions, or major health concerns; adequacy of insurance; equity company activities; acquisition and divestiture activities; the level of excess or obsolete inventory; the rate of technology change; the ability to enforce patents; product and components performance issues; retention of key personnel; stock price fluctuations; and adverse litigation or regulatory developments. These and other risk factors are detailed in Corning’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the day that they are made, and Corning undertakes no obligation to update them in light of new information or future events.

About Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy, and metrology.

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