Corning promises stronger cover glass with Gorilla Glass 6

If you drop your phone a lot, you might want to know that Corning has just made their durable glass even tougher. The company has announced Gorilla Glass 6.

Gorilla Glass is found on most consumer mobile devices, or in six billion devices from more than 45 major brands, to be specific. The fifth version of Gorilla Glass has been around for a couple of years now and the sixth iteration improves upon that by surviving drops from higher heights for multiple times.

Corning was able to engineer “an entirely new material” that would better survive multiple drops. Based on their own tests, Gorilla Glass 6 survived fifteen drops from one meter onto rough surfaces before actually breaking. This makes the new Gorilla Glass two times better than the previous version and Corning’s toughest cover glass to date.

Dr. Jaymin Amin, Vice President of Technology and Product Development, said that Gorilla Glass 6 is an entirely new glass composition that can be chemically strengthened to give it significantly higher levels of compression than what’s possible with Gorilla Glass 5.

Expect Corning Gorilla Glass 6 to be available on consumer devices in the coming months. As more phones get glass backs, the importance of having tough materials is a must. Since Gorilla Glass 6 is still yet to be available on our everyday devices, we’ll have to take extra care of our phones for now.