Display Development News articles from December 2000

Display Development News archives from December 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Compaq Introduces Flat Screen CRTs.(Company Business and Marketing)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... Compaq Computer Corp. (20555 S.H. 249, Houston, TX 77070; Tel: 281/370-0670, Fax: 281/514-1740) released three new Professional Series flat screen CRT monitors that offer top quality precision imaging for business customers. The new P170,...

LG, Philips to Merge CRT Units.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The potential merger of the CRT businesses of LG Electronics (Seoul, Korea) and Royal Philips Electronics (The Netherlands) will result in a jointly owned market leader providing displays for PCs and TV sets. According to press reports and...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS 19.6-in. Display Alternative to CRT.(Eizo Nanao Technologies' Eizo Nanao Technologies FlexScan L771)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... Eizo Nanao Technologies (5710 Warland Dr., Cypress, CA 90630; Tel: 562/431-5011, Fax: 562/431-4811) has started shipping the FlexScan L771, 19.6-in. LCD from its headquarters. This model is the latest from Eizo in the large-format flat panel...

Electrograph Intros 18-in. SXGA Monitor.(Electrograph Systems' Electrograph DTS18)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... Electrograph Systems, Inc. (175 Commerce Dr., Hauppauge, NY 11788; Tel: 800/776-5768, Fax: 631/436-5227), a wholly owned subsidiary of Manchester Equipment Co., Inc. and the largest wholesale distributor of plasma display monitors in the U.S.,...

HDTV-Ready, LCD Monitor Announced.(Samsung Electronics America's Samsung SyncMaster 240T)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... Samsung Electronics America (85 W. Tasman Dr., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 800/SAMSUNG), a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., announced the world's first HDTV-ready, 24-in. analog/digital LCD monitor. The SyncMaster 240T is also the first...

Samsung Aims for New Markets.(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. (3655 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 800/423-7364, Fax: 408/544-4919) announced a new strategy to increase its TFT-LCD panel business by expanding into what it termed "non-notebook" markets. The company...

Super-Thin Bezel Cuts Desk Space.(Eizo Nanao Technologies' Eizo Nanao Technologies FlexScan L675)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... Eizo Nanao Technologies (5710 Warland Dr., Cypress, CA 90630; Tel: 562/431-5011, Fax: 562/431-4811) announced a super-thin, 18.1-in. LCD addition to the award-wining FlexScan line of flat panel displays. Called the L675, the new model will...

Planar Supplies Medical-Grade Monitor.(Planar VitalScreen to Datex-Ohmeda)(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... Planar Systems, Inc. (1400 N.W. Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100) has supplied the VitalScreen, medical-grade flat panel monitor to Datex-Ohmeda, a leading supplier of equipment and systems for anesthesia and critical-care...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: 42-in. Unit Has Vibrant Color.(Hitachi America's Hitachi CMP4120HDU)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... Hitachi America, Ltd. (3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Norcross, GA 30092; Tel: 770/409-3000, Fax: 770/409-3028), a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), introduced a 42-in. version of its world-class plasma display panel (PDP). This...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS OLED Looks for a Bright Future.(Industry Trend or Event)
December 1, 2000... No pun intended, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology looked very bright at the Fall Comdex 2000 show last month. Eastman Kodak, a recent entry into the market, demonstrated prototypes of 2.5-in. and 5.5-in. active matrix OLED screens...

MICRODISPLAYS: Colorado Microdisplay Raises $35 Million.(Company Financial Information)
December 1, 2000... Colorado Microdisplay, Inc. (2477 55th St., Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/5469700, Fax: 303/546-9800) announced they had raised $35 million in strategic private equity investments in the company's fourth round of funding. GE Equity was the lead...

SVGA Chipsets in Mobile Headset.(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... More news was available from Colorado Microdisplay (2477 55th St., Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/5469700, Fax: 303/546-9800) this month. The company, a leading developer of high resolution microdisplay chipsets, announced the use of its chipset...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS Stereoscopic 3D DLP Projector.(from Christie Digital Systems)(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... Christie Digital Systems (809 Wellington St. N., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; Tel: 519/744-8005, Fax: 519/749-3136), a leader in high-performance projection technologies, presented a technology demonstration of the world's first stereoscopic 3D...

Brightest Portable Display from Hitachi.(Hitachi America's Hitachi CP-X325 LCD multmedia projector)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... Hitachi America, Ltd. (3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Norcross, GA 30092; Tel: 770/409-3000, Fax: 770/409-3028), a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announced the newest addition to its LCD multimedia projector family, the CP-X325W. This new...

World's Smallest Projector.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 2000... Compaq Computer Corp. (20555 S.H. 249, Houston, TX 77070; Tel: 281/370-0670, Fax: 281/514-1740) simplified travel for the "road warriors" and professionals that make presentations with the introduction of the Compaq MP2800, the world's smallest...

NEC Intros Fixed- Installation Projector.(NEC Technologies' NEC MultiSync GT1150)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2000... NEC Technologies, Inc. (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) announced a new MultiSync projector, known as the Gt1150. The latest in this series of fixed installation projectors, it is a large-screen projector,...

MATERIALS: Alliance for Chemical Supply to OLED Makers.(Universal Display and PPG Industries)(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... Universal Display Corp. (UDC, 375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618; Tel:800/599-4426) and PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, PA) announced a strategic alliance to leverage UDC's leading-edge organic light- emitting devices (OLED) flat panel display...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: NEC-Mitsubishi Join Forces.(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... NEC-Mitsubishi Electrical Visual Systems Corp. (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) announced they will co-develop with Microsoft universal reference specifications...

First Electronic Ink Display Is Demonstrated.(E-Ink and Lucent Technologies joint product development)(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... E Ink Corp. (Cambridge, MA; Tel: 617/868-8088) and Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ; Tel: 908/582-4120) announced a major milestone in their effort to develop a flexible, paper-like electronic display, as they jointly demonstrated working...

VisuaLABS Flat Panel Tiling Technology.(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... VisuaLABS, Inc. (928 72nd Ave. N.E., Calgary, Alberta T2E 8V9, Canada; Tel: 403/571-9111) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, VisuaLABS International SRL, a corporation resident in Barbados, has developed a new technology for the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Sybron Unit Acquires VPT.(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... Sybron International Corp. (Milwaukee, WI) announced that a unit of Sybron Laboratory Products Corp. (SLP), Metavac, has acquired Vacuum Process Technology, Inc. VPT is a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art thin-film deposition equipment,...

Planar Sells from Egghead.com.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Planar Systems, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) is expanding sales distribution for its new flat panel commercial desktop monitors with the addition of Egghead.com as a retailer. The Egghead site is a leading Internet direct marketer of technology and...

Universal Display Reports Results.(quarter ended September 30, 2000)(Company Financial Information)
December 1, 2000... Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, NJ), a developer of OLED flat panel displays, announced its unaudited results of operations for the third quarter and nine months ending September 30, 2000. UDC had a net loss of $1,824,263 ($0.12 per share)...

Kopin Named to S&P SmallCap 600 Index.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Kopin Corp. (Taunton, MA), the leading provider of gallium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT) for advanced telecommunications and miniature flat panel displays for digital imaging applications, announced it had been added to the...

SID Debuts New Website.(Industry Trend or Event)
December 1, 2000... The Society for Information Display (SID San Jose, CA), the nonprofit technical society for the international display community, has officially introduced its newly reconceived and redesigned Website at www.sid.org. The site covers all aspects...

PROCESS NEWS Orbotech Gets Big Order.(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2000... Orbotech, Ltd. (Yavne, Israel) said that they received a multimillion dollar order from Chi-Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) for multiple automated optical inspection systems to be used in CMO's newest fabrication facility in Taiwan for TFT LCD...