Display Development News articles from August 2000

Display Development News archives from August 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES Clear Enclosures from Apple.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Apple Computer (1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014; Tel: 408/996-1010, Fax: 408/996-0275), to complement its new professional desktops, introduced a completely new family of matching displays in crystal-clear enclosures. They include the...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: High-Resolution LCD for E-Book Devices.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Toshiba Corp. (1060 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA 95131; Tel: 408/456-8900, Fax: 408/456-9002; Website: www.toshiba.co.jp) and Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA; Website: www.microsoft.com) say they will jointly develop TFT LCDs that both companies...

Paper-Like Readability from IBM.(Product Development)
August 1, 2000... IBM (Old Orchard Rd., Armonk, NY; Tel: 914/765-1900) has a prototype LCD that may represent the future for flat panel displays. It is based on IBM's Roentgen technology, offering a new class of resolution, which is categorized as quad-SXGA....

Silicon Graphics Gets Visual Quality.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI, 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy., Mountain View, CA 94043; Tel: 650/960-1980; Website: www.sgi.com/go/flatpanel) announced the immediate availability of its award-winning Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel display bundled...

LCD Automatically Adjusts Contrast.(Product Development)
August 1, 2000... A low-profile display from Densitron (10430-2 Pioneer Blvd., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670; Tel: 562/941-5200, Fax: 562/941-5757) uses a flat response fluid (FRF) that provides stable contrast over its operating temperature range. No adjustment...

Multiple Tile Video Display.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... L-3 Communications (600 Third Ave., New York, NY 10016; Tel: 212/697-1111) says its Display Systems division introduced the Multiple Tile Video Display System (MTVD), known as the model 2236. It is the company's most advanced display system...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: SXGA Display with Full-Motion Video.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Electrograph Systems, Inc. (57 W. Timonium Rd., Timonium, MD 21093; Tel: 800/658-2819, Fax: 410/561-8238), a wholly owned subsidiary of Manchester Equipment Co. and the largest wholesale distributor of plasma display monitors in the U.S.,...

42-in. Display for Under $10,000.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... NEC Corp. (Tokyo and 1250 N. Arlington Heights Rds., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) announced a 42-in.-wide plasma display TV set that breaks the 1-million-yen price barrier. Executives at NEC and other plasma makers says that a price...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Cree Featured in Convention Displays.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Three light emitting diode display screens incorporating Cree, Inc.'s (4600 Silicon Dr., Durham, NC 27703; Tel: 919/313-5300, Fax: 919/3135452; Website: www.cree.com) blue and green LEDs are featured as the backdrop to onstage speakers at the...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT Luxell Gets Aircraft Display Contract.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Luxell Technologies, Inc. (Timberlea Blvd., Mississauga, Ontario L4W 2S5, Canada; Tel: 905/206-1708, Fax: 905/206-9174) says it has been awarded a contract by Spectra Lux Corp. (Kirkland, WA) to supply displays for the communications...

MICRODISPLAYS Kopin Wins Army Contract.(Government Activity)
August 1, 2000... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958) was awarded a $2.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to initiate production development of the company's CyberDisplay 1280. It is an 18-month...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS Passive Wall for Visual Simulations.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Fakespace Systems, Inc. (809 Wellington St., Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J6, Canada; Tel: 519/749-3339, Fax: 519/749-3151; Website: www.fakespacesystems.com) announced the availability of the Passive Stereo Wall, a high-brightness, flat wall...

Sun-Visible Billboard.(Product Development)
August 1, 2000... SI Diamond (12100 Technology Blvd., Austin, TX 78727; Tel: 512/331-6200), through its subsidiary, Electronic Billboard Technology (EBT), announced the installation of the first sun- visible, digital billboard at the Cinemark Theater in Austin,...

HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS Daylight-Readable LCD Display.(Product Development)
August 1, 2000... Xybernaut Corp. (12701 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 22033; Tel: 703/631-6925, Fax: 703/631-6734; Website: www.xybernaut.com), the leader in wearable computing and communications solutions, says it is introducing new daylight readable models...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Companies Work on Grating Light Valve.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Sony Corp. (1 Sony Dr., Park Ridge, NJ 07656; Tel: 201/369-3467) and Silicon Light Machines (385 Moffett Park Dr., Sunnyvale, CA; Tel: 408/541-4905, Fax: 408/541-1244; Website: www.siliconlight.com), a developer of silicon-based technology...

Controller Cuts Power Use, Cost.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... National Semiconductor Corp. (2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95052; Tel: 408/721-8786, Fax: 408/721-5691; Website: www.national.com) announced a universal interface, XGA panel timing controller with RSDS (reduced swing differential...

PROCESS NEWS: Smooth ITO Process for OLED Displays.(Product Development)
August 1, 2000... Applied Films Corp. (Frontage Rd., Longmont, CO 80504; Tel: 303/774-3200, Fax: 303/678-9275; Website: www.appliedfilms.com) introduced its smooth indium tin oxide (ITO) process for organic LEDs (OLEDs) at the Fine Process Technology Trade Show...

Big Order from Japanese PDP Maker.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Applied Films announced that a major Japanese manufacturer of plasma display panels has ordered an ATX-700 Sputtering System for the application of thin films. The system is expected to be delivered early in the calendar year 2001. "This...

Software Cuts Manufacturing Costs.
August 1, 2000... Knights Technology, a division of Electroglas, Inc. (6024 Silver Creek Valley Rd., San Jose, CA; Tel: 408/528-3000) introduced LCD- YM, a software-based system for monitoring, analyzing, and controlling defects during all phases of liquid...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Video Display gets Navy Contract.(Government Activity)
August 1, 2000... Video Display Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Video Display Corp., announced the award of a contract to supply highly ruggedized, large-screen display systems for the U.S. Navy AEGIS Class cruisers and destroyers. The $2.5 million,...

National Semi Buys Vivid.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) says it has acquired the operations of Vivid Semiconductor, Inc., a flat panel display design firm based in Chandler, Arizona. National says the addition of Vivid's technologies and expert analog...

Cypress to Acquire Silicon Light Machines.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... In a move to penetrate the optical communications markets, Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, CA) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silicon Light Machines (SLM), a privately held supplier of MEMS technology applicable to fiber optic...

PixelWorks, Samsung in Joint Agreement.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... PixelWorks, Inc. and Samsung Electronics are going to jointly integrate PixelWork's ImageProcessor architecture in a line of flat panel television displays. The ImageProcessor architecture is a single chip display controller that is found in...

Cree Has 16 Straight Profitable Quarters.(Company Financial Information)
August 1, 2000... Cree, Inc. (Durham, NC) reported record revenue of $33,35,000 for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000 - a 13% increase, sequentially, and an 82% increase over the $18,345,000 reported for the prior year period. Earnings per share rose 150% to...

207% Increase in Revenue for Kopin.(Company Financial Information)
August 1, 2000... Kopin Corp. (Taunton, MA) reported financial results for the second quarter ended July, 1, 2000. Highlights included a product revenue increase of 207% to $24,332,000 from $7,926,000 for the same period a year ago. Product revenue also...

PUBLICATIONS: Expanded Work on Displays & Sensors.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2000... The latest edition in a continuing series from the Materials Research Society, Flat Panel Display and Sensors - Principles, Materials and Processes, documents symposium reports from the 1999 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California, and...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
August 1, 2000... September 25-29, 2000, Twentieth International Display Research Conference, Palm Beach, FL. Contact: Ralph Nadell, Palisades Institute; Tel: 212/460-8090. October 11-13, 2000, Commercializing OLEDs, Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA....