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Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

Corning: Enough LCD screen glass to make four-lane highway from Seattle to Boston

By | May 10, 2010, 8:03am PDT

Summary: Corning says it ships enough LCD display glass to construct a highway from Seattle to Boston. It’s also working on flexible, rollable displays for future tablet computers.

You might have known that New York-based Corning is responsible for the hardened glass on your Motorola Droid smartphone.

What you may not have known is that the company is the world’s leading glass supplier for LCD displays, supplying half the total glass in the market for cell phones, notebook computers, computer monitors and televisions.

Add up how much glass Corning shipped in 2010, and you could build a four-line highway from Seattle to Boston.

That’s more than 3,000 miles of glass.

But Corning doesn’t just make glass for smartphones. It has also invested in glass for e-book readers, solar cells, retail displays and the next-generation of LCD display technology — yes, a flexible, roll-able display for what could be a future iPad or other tablet device.

Interested in what the company is up to in its research lab? Head over to SmartPlanet’s Pure Genius blog for the whole story.

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Andrew J. Nusca is associate editor of ZDNet and editor of SmartPlanet.

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Andrew J. Nusca does not hold any investments in the technology companies he covers.

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Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor at ZDNet and editor of SmartPlanet. As a journalist based in New York City, he has written for Popular Mechanics and Men's Vogue and his byline has appeared in New York magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Editor & Publisher, New York Press and many others. He also writes The Editorialiste, a media criticism blog.

He is a New York University graduate and former news editor and columnist of the Washington Square News. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been named "Howard Kurtz, Jr." by film critic John Lichman despite having no relation to him. He lives in his native Philadelphia with his wife, cat and Boston Terrier.

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