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Corning’s Willow Glass impressed the tech world with its extremely flexibility and slimness when it debuted this past summer. The 2012 debut may have been a tad premature as a new report is saying we could expect consumer products equipped with a Willow Glass to appear in at least three years.

The report is coming from Bloomberg who interviewed Corning Glass Technologies president James Clappi, speaking to him in regards to the Willow Glass. Clappin originally had hoped their Willow Glass would be made available in consumer products this year, but consumer companies have yet to come up with products that would make full use of the screen. (more…)

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As some of you guys know by now, Corning’s Gorilla Glass has been used in many of mobile devices, with some manufacturers using it as a means of marketing just how tough and high quality are the materials used, but have you ever wondered just how many devices out there actually use Gorilla Glass? Well in their quarterly earnings release, Corning has revealed that there are over 1 billion devices worldwide that currently employ the use of their Gorilla Glass. This includes major manufacturers such as Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, HTC, LG, Lenovo, Nokia and Sony, with Gorilla Glass itself being responsible for $363 million in revenues for the company in Q3 of 2012 alone! Pretty impressive we reckon. So what’s next for Corning? It’s none other than the Willow Glass, an ultra-thin and bendy glass display that could make its way into our foldable/bendable smartphones/tablets in the future!

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