Senior VP & CTO, Corning
Search every verified Jaymin Amin interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a November 2020 conversation, Jaymin Amin, then Vice President of Technology and Product Development at Corning Gorilla Glass, discussed smartphone durability concerns. He stated that the primary consumer concerns are breakages from drops and scratches on cover glass, noting that people will live with scratches but not with breaks for extended periods. Amin explained that glass toughness is determined by its chemical composition and the strengthening process used, and that Corning creates deep compression layers on the glass surface to prevent flaws from penetrating. He also noted that glass thickness has decreased from about 1.2–1.3 millimeters in 2007 to 0.5–0.6 millimeters today. Amin discussed the introduction of Gorilla Glass Victus, which he described as the toughest Gorilla Glass produced to date. He said Victus has twice the scratch performance of previous generations and about four times that of competitive glasses, with drop performance of about two meters compared to around 1.6 meters for Gorilla Glass 6. Amin explained that the name Victus was chosen because the glass simultaneously improved both drop and scratch performance, a combination not achieved previously, and that the Latin word meaning "life" resonated with the company's culture of innovation.
“Typically what the main concerns that they have are around the durability of the cover glass. The number one concern is breakages in the cover glass when the phones are being dropped, and the second concern they have is around scratches on the cover glass as well.”
“What we see more of is people will live with this scratch but obviously they can't live with the breaks — I see people carrying phones around with broken glass that have tape on them, but they don't live with that for extended periods of time.”
“First is to maybe get a smartphone that comes with that kind of protection, and second you need to understand that nothing is completely resistant — it will never never break or it will never never scratch, so you need to be careful with the devices.”
“If you consider where we were back in 2007, the glass we were producing was about 1.2–1.3 millimeters thick; glass today that goes on is in the range of 0.5 to 0.6 millimeters — you've come down by 50% or even more in thickness and a lot of the durability is controlled by the thickness.”
“The toughness of a glass is determined by two factors: one is the chemistry of the glass, the chemical composition, and the second thing is the strengthening process that you use for the glass. In addition, how you handle and finish the glass through downstream processes becomes very, very important.”
“What we've chosen to do is to go really deep with our strengthening processes so that we create very deep compression layers on the surface of the glass — glass is weak in tension but it becomes really strong in compression, so flaws stay enveloped in that compressive region and don't penetrate all the way through.”
“Victus is the toughest Gorilla Glass we've produced to date: it's got twice better scratch performance than our previous generation glasses and about four times better scratch performance than competitive glasses, and in drop tests we see drops of about two meters with Victus versus around 1.6 meters for Gorilla Glass...”
“When we were making the glass we were marching towards the direction of Gorilla Glass 7, but marketing said this class is looking so different because we've simultaneously improved both drop and scratch performance — therefore we ought to call this class something new, and we chose Victus.”
In conversation with Jaymin Amin, VP, Technology and Product Development, Corning Gorilla Glass, and Technical Guruji
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