Gorilla Glass maker Corning to obtain as much as $32 million below CHIPS Act

Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass, is about to obtain as much as $32 million in funding below the CHIPS and Science Act. In an announcement on Friday, the US Commerce Division stated the proposed funding will assist Corning improve manufacturing of its glass merchandise used within the chip-making course of.

Nevertheless, the proposed CHIPS Act funding doesn’t have something to do with Gorilla Glass. Corning will put the funding towards the manufacturing of its Excessive Purity Fused Silica and Excessive Extremely-Low Growth Glass. As famous within the press launch, each varieties of glass are utilized in lithography machines and photomasks used to picture a chip’s sample onto a silicon wafer. It should additionally permit Corning to “scale a novel manufacturing course of” in its Canton, New York plant, which is anticipated to create 130 new manufacturing jobs and greater than 175 development jobs.