Display Development News articles from August 2003

Display Development News archives from August 2003

MARKET ANALYSIS: Logging Advances in LCD Displays.
August 1, 2003... Over the past 18 months or so, we have been describing the advances made in LCD flat panel television. In the past, plasma and projection systems were the choices for flat panel TV, but the LCD has since made an outstanding start in TV....

Gateway Adds LCDs to Digital TV Line.
August 1, 2003... In November 2002, DDN featured an announcement by Gateway, Inc. that it had eliminated the CRT from its standard lineup of personal computers in favor of the liquid crystal flat panel display. The company said that entry level PCs would...

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Philips Steps Up Mass Production.
August 1, 2003... L.G. Philips Displays (99 Queen's Centre, Hong Kong; Tel: 852- 3150-6120) is consolidating its position as a major supplier of a new generation of color picture tubes (CPTs) that offer high contrast picture performance for the mainstream and...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Notebook Has Wide-Screen.
August 1, 2003... Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (CSG, 9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine, CA 92618; Tel: 949/583-3000) announced the availability of the company's first notebook PC featuring a 17-inch diagonal wide screen (1,440 by 900) display. Creating a new era of...

TV Has Dual Channel Image Processor.
August 1, 2003... Pixelworks, Inc. (546 Flynn Rd., Tualatin, OR 93012; Tel: 805/4484-8855, Fax: 805/484-8989), a leading provider of system- on-a-chip ICs for the advanced display market, said that Samsung selected the PW565 Video ImageProcessor IC for a new...

Chip Smoothes Moving Images.
August 1, 2003... Royal Philips Electronics (Breitner Center, Amsterdam 1096, Netherlands; Tel: 877/248-4237, Fax: 201/324-3284) announced its next generation of high-end motion compensation/estimation semiconductor solutions to improve and enhance the picture...

IBM Adds Low- Priced Monitors.
August 1, 2003... IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY 10504; Tel: 914/499-1900, Fax: 914/765-6021) announced the latest additions to its line of ThinkVision monitors-the L150 and L150p-both 15-inch high-end flat panel LCDs offering ThinkVantage design characteristics that...

PLASMA PANELS: Pioneer TVs Have Digital Signal Path.
August 1, 2003... Pioneer Electronics (2265 220th St., Long Beach, CA 90810; Tel: 310/952-2111, Fax: 310/952-2990) added two more high-definition plasma televisions to its Pioneer Elite PureVision family-the Pro- 1110HD (50-inch) and Pro-910HD (43-inch). These...

Plasma Display Panel for Business Use.
August 1, 2003... The Home Electronics Division of Hitachi America (2000 Sierra Point Pkwy., Brisbane, CA 94005; Tel: 650/589-8300, Fax: 650/583- 4207) announced a next-generation 42-inch plasma display panel. Known as the CMP 4201/4202U, it is a...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS: Joint Development for Camera, Camcorder.
August 1, 2003... ROHM (Kyoto, Japan; Tel: 81-75-311-2121), a major manufacturer of semiconductor and electronics components, and eMagin (2070 Rte. 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12540; Tel: 845/892-1900, Fax: 845/892- 1901), a leading developer of OLED displays,...

China's First OLED Production Line.
August 1, 2003... Eastman Kodak (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/588-7612) has licensed Truly International Holdings, Ltd. (Hong Kong), a leading manufacturer of LCDs and consumer electronic products, to make and sell the passive matrix version of its...

Collaboration on Black Layer Technology.
August 1, 2003... Luxell Technologies, Inc. (5170A Timberlea Blvd., Ontario, Canada L4W 2S5; Tel: 905/206-1708, Fax: 905/206-9174) and Cambridge Display Technologies (CDT, Madingly Rd., Cambridge CB3 OHJ, England; Tel: 44 (0) 1223-723-555, Fax: 44 (0)...

LEDs Continue to "Score" Big Orders.
August 1, 2003... There is no shortage of LED displays in the sports arenas around the country. Daktronics, Inc. (331 32nd Ave., Brookings, SD 57006; Tel: 605/697-4467, Fax: 605/697-4700) reported five major orders last month for its scoring and video display...

MICRODISPLAYS: Microminiature Displays on the Horizon.
August 1, 2003... Microvision, Inc. (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415-6847, Fax: 425/415-6600), a leader in light scanning technologies, said it has achieved a significant breakthrough that is expected to enable the development of...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: First to Sell 1.5 M Digital Projectors.
August 1, 2003... InFocus Corp. (27700B SW Pkwy., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/685-8887) announced a milestone sales point in early July. Since its inception in 1986, the company has sold 1.5 million digital projectors worldwide, setting...

Accelerometer Enables "Squared" Image.
August 1, 2003... MEMSIC (100 Burtt Rd., North Andover, MA 01810; Tel: 978/623- 8188), the leading provider of CMOS-based MEMS accelerometers/sensors, said it has been shipping production quantities of its stiction and particle-free accelerometers to NEC and...

Compact, Lightweight Models Intro.
August 1, 2003... Philips is making mobile presentations easier and more powerful with its new bCool Series ultra-portable projectors. Two models in this new group have reset the benchmark in power and portability for mobile presenters. They connect to a PC or...

MATERIALS: Razor-Thin LEDs from Cree.
August 1, 2003... Cree, Inc. (4600 Silicon Dr., Durham, NC 27703; Tel: 919/313-5300, Fax: 919/313-5452) has begun volume production of its new RazorThin light-emitting diode (LED) products. These chips are thinner than Cree's standard products at 0.095 mm in...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Motorola Progresses in Carbon Nanotubes.
August 1, 2003... Motorola Labs (Tempe, AZ) the applied research arm of Motorola, Inc. (1303 Algonquin Rd., Schaumberg, IL 60196; Tel: 847/576-5000, Fax: 847-576-5372) announced exciting results from its carbon nanotechnology research. Motorola Labs is currently...

PROCESS NEWS: Laser Micromachining Makes Inroads.
August 1, 2003... In 1984, two gentlemen named Malcolm Gower and Phil Rumsby founded a company named Exitech with the intent to develop the use of lasers for emerging industrial microfabrication tasks. Today, the company, located in the Oxford Industrial Park...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Education Purchase Helps Tight Budgets.
August 1, 2003... InFocus Corp. (Wilsonville, OR) the worldwide leader in digital projection technology and services, announced a new purchasing program to enable educators to take advantage of the proven success of projection. By registering for this new...

ViewSonic Gets ISO 9001 Certificate.
August 1, 2003... ViewSonic Corp. (Walnut, CA), a worldwide Visual Technologies leader, said it received the British Standards Institution (BSI) Certificate of Registration (FM 40187) dated June 12, 2003, for completing certification to the ISO 9001:2000 Quality...

Advanced Automotive Display to Be Developed.
August 1, 2003... Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA) is working with the Electronics Research Lab (ERL) of Volkswagen of America, Inc. to develop an advanced automotive display prototype. Details of the development project remain confidential, but it is expected to...

Thomson, LG Electronics Collaborate on Plasma.
August 1, 2003... Thomson (Boulogne, France) and LG Electronics (South Korea) announced they would join their R&D resources on plasma display technology. Charles Dehelly, CEO of Thomson, and Nam K. Woo, president and CEO of the LGE Digital Display and Media Co.,...

Stocks Rise for Fifth Straight Quarter.
August 1, 2003... Eleven of our tracked 14 display-related stocks were in the plus column for the month ending July 31st, as the broad markets posted their fifth consecutive month of gains in the first half of 2003. This market has been one of ups and downs...

CALENDAR.
August 1, 2003... August 17-20, 2003. The 8th Asian Symposium on Information Display, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Contact: SID; Tel: 408/977-1013, Fax: 408/977-1531. September 15-18, 2003. 23rd Int'l. Display Research Conf., Pointe South Mountain Resort,...