January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Corning made a number of announcements before the show opened. They also invited attendees to visit their booth to see some prototype applications.

A new version of Gorilla Glass enables up to a 20 percent reduction in glass thickness, while maintaining damage resistance, toughness, and scratch resistance. The thinner Gorilla Glass 2 enables slimmer and sleeker devices, brighter images, and greater touch sensitivity.

Various sizes will be available when the glass goes into full production. Additional coatings for anti-glare and dirt and oil resistance are available. Although the glass can be made thinner, the company representatives noted that non-planar glass is still a specialty item. Gorilla Glass will not be available as a roll-to-roll product, because the treatments for toughness are mutually exclusive with high flexibility.

The Corning booth explored the benefits of Gorilla Glass in larger format, touch displays for education, entertainment, auto, and home appliance applications. These included an 82-inch advanced multi-touch LCD display prototype, a touch-enabled automobile interior, and home appliance center simulators demonstrating new user interface experiences. The models continue the "Day of Glass" video themes with evolutionary products rather than highly futuristic projections. The centerpiece of the display was a Gorilla Glass-covered video wall, flanked by Gorilla Glass fabricated sound speakers, projecting the latest in Corning specialty glass technology news.

The existing material is featured on more than 30 major brands and designed into more than 575 product models, spanning more than 500 million units worldwide, and the company believes that their customers will continue to use their cover glass. Corning announced its continuing collaboration with Acer Incorporated and ASUS, both of which plan to use Gorilla Glass 2 on new computing devices released in 2012.