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Apple and Corning partner to manufacture 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky


Apple and Corning today announced a major expansion of their long-standing partnership to make precision glass for Apple products…

The Innovation Center will play a key role in the development and engineering of advanced materials and next-generation manufacturing platforms for Apple’s future generations of products. “Corning is a storied American company, and we’re thrilled to work together to build the largest and most advanced production line ever created for smartphone glass,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. In the next four years, Apple plans to directly hire 20,000 people in the U.S. — the vast majority focused on R&D, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning.

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