Corning Executive Names Sapphire As Expensive, Heavy And Environmentally Unfriendly [feedly]

Corning Executive Names Sapphire As Expensive, Heavy And Environmentally Unfriendly
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Corning Glass executive Tony Tripeny mentioned in a conference call earlier today that there are many negative points to using sapphire crystal in a mobile device, which is a move that many deem Apple to take with the next generation iPhone. Corning executives CFO James Flaws and SVP and Corporate Controller Tripeny have weighed in on the situation, where the latter shared, "When we look at it, we see a lot of disadvantages of Sapphire versus Gorilla Glass. It's about 10 times more expensive. It's about 1.6 times heavier. It's environmentally unfriendly. It takes about 100 times more energy to generate a Sapphire crystal than it does glass. It transmits less light which…means either dimmer devices or shorter battery life. It continues to break."

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