Corning
Materials science: optical fiber, specialty glass and ceramics · United States
Corning is a 175-year-old materials-science company that makes the Gorilla Glass on phones, the glass inside TV and laptop screens, optical fiber and connectivity for telecom networks and AI data centers, plus car-exhaust ceramics, lab equipment and solar-grade polysilicon.
What makes it different
Its biggest business is now fiber, not glass.
38%Optical Communications share of salesFY2025
Optical fiber, cable and connectivity, increasingly for AI data centers, bring in more than any glass business.
How big it is
How big is Corning?
$15.6BNet salesFY2025
14Countries with factoriesFY2025
67,200Employees2025
How it makes money FY2025
Fiber first, then display glass and Gorilla Glass.
- Optical Communications38%$6.3B
- Display23%$3.7B
- Specialty Materials14%$2.2B
- Automotive11%$1.8B
- Other15%
How the business works
Invent a glass. Scale it. Lock in leaders.
- 1Glass, ceramics, fiber
- 2Proprietary fusion process
- 3Phone, panel, cloud leaders
A few big customers per market sign long deals because Corning owns the processes few rivals can copy.
Who owns it
- Samsung Display Co., Ltd.7.93%
- BlackRock, Inc.7.02%
- Vanguard Capital Management6.77%
CEO: Wendell P. Weeks
Who it competes with
PPrysmianFFujikuraSSumitomo ElectricAAGCNNippon Electric GlassSSchottNNGK InsulatorsTThermo Fisher Scientific
Key moments
- 1851Glass business founded
- 1915PYREX introduced
- 1970Low-loss optical fiber invented
- 2007Gorilla Glass launched
- 2026NVIDIA partnership and $40B plan
Sources
Every number on this page comes from Corning's own reports.
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What Corning tracks23 metrics
EAGLE XG display glass sold
Unexpired patents
Employees
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
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Profit
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Where the money comes from4 regions
Asia Pacific
North America
Europe
The full timeline11 moments
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