Amazon, Corning sign multi-billion-dollar deal to boost fiber optics manufacturing in US

Reuters

Mon, June 8, 2026 astatine 8:51 AM CDT 1 min read

June 8 (Reuters) - Amazon said connected Monday it has signed a multi-billion-dollar woody with specialty solid ‌maker Corning aimed astatine boosting U.S. accumulation ‌of optical fibre and connectivity products that are utilized successful information ​centers.

Amazon, however, did not disclose immoderate further fiscal details connected the partnership.

Shares of Corning roseate astir 7% successful aboriginal trading, arsenic the concern came arsenic a caller ‌boost to the ⁠company's fast-growing fibre optics unit, astatine a clip erstwhile anemic user electronics request has ⁠weighed connected the conception that makes Gorilla glass.

Here are much details connected the partnership:

• The multi-year concern volition ​create 1,000 ​jobs astatine Corning's North ​Carolina facilities, Amazon said.

• ‌Amazon and Corning volition enactment unneurotic connected a caller inaugural that volition grow Corning's fibre optic technician grooming programme with the Catawba Valley Community College successful North Carolina to bid students for roles successful the ‌facilities.

• Corning's optical fibre products ​are important successful moving information ​between thousands of ​processors successful AI information centers. The institution ‌has already announced plans to ​increase U.S.-based ​optical connectivity manufacturing capableness tenfold and grow home fibre accumulation capableness by much than 50%.

• Last month, ​Corning signed ‌a concern with Nvidia to grow U.S. manufacturing ​of fibre optics.