Enterprise DNA
Networking and cables Supplier to the AI builders

Corning

Makes optical fibre, cable and connectivity products for data centres and telecoms.

Revenue
Optical Communications sales of $2.07B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)
Growth
Optical Communications sales up 32%. Sales linked to AI data centres nearly doubled
Based in
Corning, US
Founded
1851
Listed
Public (GLW)
Why it is winning

Amazon signed a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal for its US data centres, and Nvidia is working with it to expand optical capacity tenfold.

The risk to watch

Demand is above its production capacity, and it plans about $2B of 2026 capital spending to expand.

Money coming in

Who pays Corning, and for what.

  • AmazonpaysCorningmultibillion (not disclosed)

    signed a multiyear deal for optical fibre, cable and connectivity for its US data centres

    sec.gov
  • NvidiapaysCorning10x capacity target

    partnership to expand US optical connectivity manufacturing capacity tenfold

    sec.gov

Money going out

Who Corning pays to do what it does.

No suppliers of Corning mapped yet.

Where it sits on the map

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Sources: sec.gov

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