Gorilla Glass maker Corning to receive up to $32 million under CHIPS Act

Corning, the shaper of Gorilla Glass, is acceptable to person up to $32 cardinal successful backing nether the CHIPS and Science Act. In an announcement connected Friday, the US Commerce Department said the projected backing volition assistance Corning summation accumulation of its solid products utilized successful the chip-making process.

The announcement comes conscionable days after the European Commission opened an antitrust investigation into Corning implicit whether it uses exclusive proviso agreements to stifle competition. Both Samsung and Apple usage Corning’s ultra-tough alkali-aluminosilicate solid — oregon Gorilla Glass — connected their phones, tablets, and smartwatches.

However, the projected CHIPS Act backing doesn’t person thing to bash with Gorilla Glass. Corning volition enactment the backing toward the accumulation of its High Purity Fused Silica and Extreme Ultra-Low Expansion Glass. As noted successful the property release, some types of solid are utilized successful lithography machines and photomasks utilized to representation a chip’s signifier onto a silicon wafer. It volition besides let Corning to “scale a caller manufacturing process” successful its Canton, New York plant, which is expected to make 130 caller manufacturing jobs and much than 175 operation jobs.