Display Development News articles from August 2001

Display Development News archives from August 2001

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS IBM to Focus On Big Monitors.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... IBM (Old Orchard Rd., Armonk, NY 10504; Tel: 914/499-1900, Fax: 914/765-6021) says it is winding down a joint venture with Toshiba and will specialize in large, flat panel high-resolution displays. In Tokyo, IBM announced a partnership with...

Advanced LCDs From ViewSonic.(ViewPad 100 Super PDA and the ViewPad 1000 Tablet PC)(Product Information)
August 1, 2001... Worldwide visual technology leader ViewSonic (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789, Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) demonstrated a broad and visionary range of next generation technology, unveiling a family of compact SuperPDAs, Tablet...

Graphics LCD for Technical Apps.(Silicon Graphics F180)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... SGI (1600 Amphitheater Pkwy., Mountain View, CA 94034; Tel: 650/960-1980), a leader in high performance computing and advanced visualization solutions, announced a new 18.1-in. digital flat panel display, Silicon Graphics F180. The new display...

Sony Offers Medical Grade Monitors.(LMD151MD and LMD181MD LCD displays from Sony Corp)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Sony Corp. (1 Sony Dr., Park Ridge, NJ 07656; Tel: 201/369-3467) began shipping the first two medical grade flat panel monitors in its LMD-MD series. These flexible, lightweight monitors provide virtually undistorted views from multiple viewing...

Digital Display From Data Ray.(Precision 3M)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Data Ray Corp. (12300 Pecos, Westminster, CO 80234; Tel: 303/451- 1300, Fax: 303/451-1143) announced the Precision 3M completely digital 20.8-in. diagonal, 3 Mega-Pixel LCD flat panel display that is optimized by a high performance dual head...

PLASMA PANELS: Monitor Lets Dental Students Into Mouth.(Product Information)
August 1, 2001... We learned that a plasma display was being put to good use as a teacher of dental techniques on a large scale. At UCLA's school of dentistry, about two dozen budding dentists get a good look into a patient's mouth via a 40-in. plasma monitor...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS ECM Chooses PixTech FED.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... PixTech, Inc. (3350 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 408/986-8868, Fax: 408/986-9896) will supply ECM, headquartered in Angouleme, France, with field emission displays for its new portable veterinary ultrasound scanner. PixTech is...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS eMagin Ships Initial Orders.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... eMagin Corp. (1580 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/882-1900, Fax: 914/892-1901) says it has shipped evaluation kits for its full-color OLED-on-silicon microdisplay product to over 20 international and domestic customers since...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: 20 Million Pixels Give Scientists Better View.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... A 10-foot high, 13-foot wide screen has been unveiled by Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM; Tel: 505/844-1527). In the words of the developers, this screen makes high definition TV look as grainy as an old TV in a cheap motel. ...

HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS: Displays Fare Well in Bell Canada Trial.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... Bell Canada (Toronto) and Xybernaut Corp. (12701 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 22033; Tel: 703/631-6925, Fax: 703/631-6734) announced the results of the world's first large-scale market trial of wearable computers and the outfitting of 300 of...

MATERIALS: Cesium Deposition Controlled.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... Luxtron Corp. (2775 Northwestern Pkwy., Santa Clara, CA 95051; Tel: 408/727-1600) says it has successfully demonstrated the control of Cesium (Cs) deposition rate in the sub-angstrom per second range by using atomic absorption spectroscopy...

Corning's Substrate Wins Product Award.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Corning, Inc. (One Riverfront Plaza, Corning, NY 14831; Tel: 607/974-9000, Fax: 607/974-8091) was awarded the 2001 Advanced Display Product of the Year (ADY) in the material and component category for its EAGLE2000 glass substrates, used in...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: LCDs with Built-In Circuits.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... Sharp Corp. (Tokyo and 5700 N. W. Pacific Rim Blvd., Camas, WA 98607; Tel: 360/834-8926), Japan's largest LCD maker, said it will begin making advanced displays next fall that integrate circuits into the screen, allowing sharper images and...

TV Display Doubles as Photo Frame.(Sharp Corp.)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... This announcement from Sharp Corp. also makes our new technology column this month. Sharp, Japan's biggest maker of LCDs unveiled a flat panel television that can also display digital photos using a PC card slot. The thin, space saving...

Stereoscopic Images Without Eyewear.(SynthaGram Monitor)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... StereoGraphics Corp. (2171 E. Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901; Tel: 415/459-4500, Fax: 415/459-3020), the world's leading supplier of stereoscopic visualization products, announced its first autostereoscopic display, called the SynthaGram...

INDUSTRY NEWS: ISO-13406-2 Monitors Shipped.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America (Itasca, ILL) announced that its current line of flat panel monitors (20-in. and below screen sizes) has achieved the ISO-13406-2 industry standard for screen performance and maximum allowable dead...

White Gets Large Orders.(White Electronics Design Corp.)
August 1, 2001... White Electronics Designs Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) says it has received record bookings in excess of $7 million at its flat panel display division. These new orders, which are to be shipped over the next 3 to 12 months, are for both ruggedized...

NESS Display Gets $15 Million.(Ness Display Corp receives $15 million in second round financing)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... Ness Display Corp., Ltd. (Seoul, Korea), a high-tech R&D organization specializing in the development of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Displays technologies, announced that the privately held company received $15 million in second round...

VESA Releases Measurement 2.0.(Video Electronics Standard Association)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... The Video Electronics Standard Association (VESA, Milpitas, CA), the leading video display standards organization, announced the release of Flat Panel Display Measurements, Version 2.0 (FPDM2). A major update to Flat Panel Display Measurements...

Planar has Strong Quarterly Results.(Company Financial Information)
August 1, 2001... Planar Systems, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) recorded strong financial results for its third quarter ended June 29, 2001, marking seven consecutive quarters of year-over-year revenue growth. Sales in the third quarter were $52.4 million, a 16%...

Telegen Opens New FPD Plant.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... Telegen Corp. (San Mateo, CA) says it has completed construction and outfitting of its 5,200 ft2 High Gain Emissive Display (HGED) prototype manufacturing facility located in Foster City, California, and expects to begin limited manufacturing...

Sage Chip Sales Up.(Net lossfor the three months ended June 30, 2001 amount to $2.7 million)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Sage, Inc. (Milpitas, CA), a leading supplier of digital display processors, announced its results for its fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2001. Revenues for the three months ended June 30 were $81 million compared to $6.5 million for the three...

Colorado Microdisplay Now Zight Corporation.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... Colorado Microdisplay, Inc. (2477 55th St., Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/546-9700, Fax: 303/546-9800), a developer of high resolution, full color microdisplays, has changed its name to Zight Corp. Lexicon Branding, the same agency that created...

Hitachi Drops PC Display Tubes.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... Hitachi, Ltd., Japan's largest electronics manufacturer, says it will exit the conventional desktop computer display tube business because of sluggish demand for PCs and a shift to new displays. The company issued a statement in Tokyo in the...

Westaim Posts 2Q Earnings.(Company Financial Information)
August 1, 2001... Westaim Corp. (Calgary, Canada) announced that for the second quarter ended June 30, 2001, it recorded net earnings of $2.0 million, or $0.03 per share, on revenue of $16.2 million. The results include a $20.1 million gain on sale of assets...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
August 1, 2001... October 16-19, 2001, Asia Display/IDW '01, The 21st Int'l. Display Research Conf. in Conjunction with the 8th Int'l. Display Workshops, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan. Contact: AD/IDW '01 Secretariat; 81-3-3423-4180. November 6-9,...