Corning announced its flexible Willow Glass last summer with the possibility of full production by the end of the year, but we shouldn't expect to see it in consumer electronics any time soon. That's the message from Corning Glass Technologies president James Clappin, who told Bloomberg that manufacturers are expected to take at least three more years to design products with flexible Willow Glass displays.
"The ability of people to take it and use it to make a product is limited," said Clappin, who was marking the opening of an $800 million LCD glass plant in China. Corning is making efforts to teach some "very big name" customers how to implement the glass in their products, but it's clear that the material poses new design challenges....
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/28/4041942/corning-says-flexible-glass-displays-are-three-years-away
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