Display Development News articles from April 2001

Display Development News archives from April 2001

CATHODE RAY TUBES Large Format for CAD/CAM.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 9179; Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) expanded its display product line with the introduction of the P225, a high- performance 21-inch (20-inch viewable) monitor for professionals who...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Breakthrough Price for 17-inch Monitor.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Princeton Graphics (2001 S. Yale St., Santa Ana, CA 92794; Tel: 714/751-8405, Fax: 714/751-5736) announced a 17-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) that combines affordability and quality and is the first display in its category to sell for $899....

Genesis Chip Used in Mainstream Monitor.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Genesis Microchip (200 Town Center Blvd., Ontario, Canada L3R 8G5; Tel: 905/470-2742, Fax: 905/470-9022) said that Korea Computer, Inc. (KCI, Seoul, Korea; Tel: 82-2-829-3000) is using a Genesis liquid crystal display (LCD) controller chip in...

All Digital LCD from Data Ray.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Data Ray Corp. (12300 Pecos, Westminster, CO 80234; Tel: 303/451-1300, Fax: 303/451-1143) announced a 3 mega-pixel digital liquid crystal display (LCD) with a digital graphic controller. The ME311 offers 10-bit gray scale (1,021 shades of gray)...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS Phase II HyFED Team in Place.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (3006 Longhorn Blvd., Austin, TX 78758; Tel: 512/339-5020), through its subsidiary Field Emission Picture Element Technology, Inc. (FEPET) announced the expansion of its international HyFED development team and the...

RF Array with Nanotube Cathode.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (3006 Longhorn Blvd., Austin, TX 78758; Tel: 512/339-5020), through a proposal by its subsidiary Field Emission Picture Element Technology, Inc. (FEPET), has been selected by the Ballistic Missile Defense...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Kodak, Teco in License Agreement.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Eastman Kodak Co. (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/588-7612) has licensed its innovative organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology to Teco Electric and Machinery Co., Ltd. of Taiwan for use in passive matrix flat panel display...

MICRODISPLAYS: Color OLED on Silicon Microdisplay.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... eMagin Corp. (2070 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/892-1900, Fax: 914/892-1901) gave the first public demonstration of its SVGA+ color organic light emitting diode (OLED)-on-silicon microdisplay at the DisplaySearch US Flat...

CyberDisplay Used in Portable CyberMan.(Product Information)
April 1, 2001... The CyberDisplay 320C made by Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Rd., Taunton,MA 02780; Tel: 508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958) is being shipped with its ASIC components to Oriscape Electronics Co., Ltd. (based in Shenzen, China) that has started to...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Microportable Units with High Resolution.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Canon USA, Inc. (Lake Success, NY; Tel: 516/328-4825), a subsidiary of Canon, Inc., has introduced two new easy-to- carry and low-cost microportable LCD projectors that offer better brightness and higher resolution for classrooms, small...

Display Has Bold Shape.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Sony Electronics (1 Sony Dr., Park Ridge, NJ 07656; Tel: 201/369-3467) presented a bold departure from the usual boxy and bulky projectors typically found in today's boardrooms. Their new VPL-FX50 breaks the mold of installation projectors by...

Motion-Sensing Remote Control.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Sharp Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) introduced the presentation industry's first LCD projector to feature remote control with motion-sensing GyroPoint Technology. The XG-P20X Conference Series projector integrates a patented method of cursor control...

Three-Pound Digital Projector.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Toshiba Imaging Systems (Irvine, CA; Tel: 800/288-1354, Fax: 800/470-9390) introduced a revolutionary 3-pound data/video projector powered by Texas Instruments Digital Light Processing Technology. Called the TDP-P4, this projector combines the...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Display Processors for XGA and SXGA Market.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Sage, Inc. (1601 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95030; Tel: 408/383-5300, Fax: 408/383-5310) announced the world's first fully integrated and programmable SmartMonitor display processors, which will be offered in two packages customized for the...

Chip Gets High Images.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2001... Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI, One Technology Way, Norwood,MA 02062; Tel: 781/329-4700, Fax: 617/326-8703) announced a highly integrated 205-MHz analog interface chip for capturing RGB analog graphics signals from computers and converting them to...

PROCESS NEWS: RTP Systems Used to Make AMLCDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Intevac, Inc. (3550 Bassett St., Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 408/496-2214, Fax: 408/988-8145) said it received an order for a Model 6010 Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) system from a Japanese customer. Dan Gentry, vice president of sales and...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Getting Large Panels Into the Home.(Calendar of Events)
April 1, 2001... The keynote addresses at the 32nd Annual Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition will focus on one of the display industry's abiding challenges: creating a mass market for large and beautiful, but...

Electrograph, ViewSonic in Distribution Agreement.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... ViewSonic Corp. (Walnut, CA), a leading provider of visual technology, announced an expanded presence in the audio visual channel, teaming up with Electrograph Systems, Inc., a top distributor of display solutions. Under the terms of this...

Acer, Unipac Set to Merge.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2001... Unipac Electronics and Acer Display Technology, Inc. (ADT), both of Taipei, Taiwan, passed resolutions at their respective board meetings approving the merger of the two companies. The newly formed company will be called AU Optronics Corp. and...

NEC, Thomson in Joint Venture.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... NEC Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) said it plans to form a joint venture with Thomson Multimedia SA of France to develop and make plasma displays for use in large flat panel televisions. NEC, which owns a 6.3% stake in the French consumer electronics...

LCD Joint Venture Boosts Capacity.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... A joint venture, ST Liquid Crystal Display Corp. (ST-LCD, Tokyo, Japan), is building a second manufacturing line for low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD substrates, a move that is reported to almost boost production by a factor of three. The...

Three-Five Sees Q1 Revenues Below Targets.(Company Financial Information)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Three-Five Systems (Tempe, AZ) said it expects revenue and earnings per share for the first quarter ending March 31, 2001, to be lower than targeted in the company's fourth quarter 2000 earnings press release. The company said that recent...

Alliance Agreement Includes Monitors.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Dell Computer (Austin, TX) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announced they have entered into a strategic multibillion-dollar technology and research and development agreement. Under the terms of the $16 billion agreement,...

eMagin Gets $5 Million Deal.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... eMagin Corp. (Hopewell Junction, NY) announced the renewal of its Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force. The $5 million contract will continue to advance the development of high-resolution active...

Dolch Display Gets Award.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2001... Control Solutions Magazine, a PennWell Corp. publication, presented its Editor's Choice Award to Dolch Computer Systems (Fremont, CA) for its Shark flat panel display. Formerly known as Instrumentation and Control Systems, this publication is...

Display Technology Stock Watch.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2001... Just 2 of our 14 stocks were in the plus column as March came to a close, but it looks slightly better to us as the market slide continues. The losses are not as severe, and there is even a hint that the bottom may be reached or getting close....

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
April 1, 2001... April 23-28, 2001, Microtechnology, Hannover Fair, Hannover, Germany. Contact: www.hannovermesse.de. April 30-May 3, 2001, International Reliability Physics Symposium, IEEE, Orlando, FL. Contact www.irps.org. June 3-8, 2001. Society...