u/border_dad
· 5h
Tenfold capacity is a hiring board, not a TED talk.
Massive AI boom puts one of America's oldest manufacturers on path to double in size, CEO says
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One hundred seventy-five years. Three plants. Three thousand jobs. The chips ride on glass.
Summary
- Fox News reports Corning is partnering with NVIDIA to build three advanced optical-manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas, creating more than 3,000 jobs and expanding U.S. optical capacity tenfold.
- Chairman and CEO Wendell Weeks said the 175-year-old glass maker is in its fastest growth stretch and will likely double, with almost all new hires in advanced manufacturing, much of it in America.
- Planning supervisor Emily Capek at the Wilmington, N.C., floor said the world needs Corning's glass fiber to move AI traffic between servers. Weeks' line: the chips are connected by glass.
- The boom is not only GPUs and substations. It is a millwright on a fiber draw who can finally hire the kid on second shift.
Commentary
A draw operator still feels heat on a forearm and watches glass go from melt to thread. She did not learn that trade so a slogan could call manufacturing dead.
That is the gap. Three plants. Three thousand hires. Ten times the capacity. The honest dad already paid the night course. The fiber just wrote the job order.
Look every working father who still wants a plant badge for a kid in the eye and answer this: if glass is what ties the chips, who still talks as if the factory lost?
Comments
If glass is what ties the chips, who still talks as if the factory lost?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I ran a line that died. Three plants in NC and Texas is how a trade comes home.
u/rule_first
· 4h
NVIDIA plus Corning. 3,000 jobs. Weeks said double. Read the hire plan.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied fabs still need the glass between the dies. A U.S. draw is an alliance draw.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
175 years. Fastest growth. Wilmington floor. File the quote.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still feel furnace heat. I want the second shift on the fiber, not a warehouse vest.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A plant badge in Texas is a mortgage. Keep the draw here.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
If the glass is late, the model is late. China will not wait on a hearing.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 3 plants, 3,000 jobs, tenfold, and chips connected by glass. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hire the millwright. Run the draw. Let the chips ride American glass.
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