Display Development News articles from January 2002

Display Development News archives from January 2002

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK Looking back...and Ahead.
January 1, 2002... The events of September 11 plus an economic slowdown challenged every industry in 2001. A lessening of demand led many display suppliers to cut prices in an attempt to boost unit volume. Despite a drop in prices that led to a flat year in...

The Future.
January 1, 2002... Displays continue to grow in both directions-large panels for TV, particularly HDTV applications, stadium viewing, and transportation information panels-and smaller displays for cell phones, digital cameras, PDAs, and other mobile devices....

2002 and Beyond.
January 1, 2002... We note that U.S. companies will increase R&D spending by just 3.2% in 2002, compared with 5.4% in 2001 and 10.8% in 2000. The weakened economy, the events of September 11, and changing government priorities are given as the cause for this...

Industry Comments.
January 1, 2002... Here are some comments from those directly involved in the display business. We asked them what they saw for 2002 and beyond. Janice Mahon, vice president for Technology Commercialization at Universal Display Corp. reviewed the rapid...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Displays That Can Rotate.(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Planar Systems, Inc. (1400 NW Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100, Fax: 503/690-1493) introduced innovative 15- and 17.4-in. flat panel monitors that feature the ability to rotate the display from landscape to portrait...

Mixed Signal Processors.
January 1, 2002... Sage, Inc. (1601 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95030; Tel: 408/383- 5300, Fax: 408/383-5310) announced two highly integrated mixed signal display controllers optimized for the cost sensitive XGA market. The s9000 (TTL interface) and the s9001...

17-in. LCD for $699.
January 1, 2002... Hitachi America, Ltd. (Westwood, MA Tel: 781/461-8300), a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. has added a high-performance 17-in. LCXD monitor to its value line. The new CML171 targets corporate, home, general business, and the SOHO user. It features...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS FED Developer Downscales.
January 1, 2002... Candescent Technologies (6580 Via Del Oro, San Jose, CA 95119; Tel: 408/360-2658), has abandoned its plans to manufacture screens based on field emission display (FED) technology, according to Dawn Morse, the company's director of investor...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS Driver Provides 14-bit Resolution.(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Micrel Semiconductor (1849 Fortune Dr., San Jose, CA 95135; Tel: 408/944-0800, Fax: 408/944-0970) has produced a digitally programmable display driver designed for large outdoor LED video displays. Called the MIC5400, the driver provides...

MICRODISPLAYS: SpatiaLight in LCoS TV Deal.
January 1, 2002... SpatiaLight (8-C Commercial Blvd., Navato, CA; Tel: 415/883-1693, Fax: 415/883-3363), a developer of liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) microdisplay devices, announced a manufacturing agreement with Skyworth Display, Ltd., a subsidiary of...

Three-Five Shows 2.3 Million Pixels.
January 1, 2002... Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) made the first public demonstration of the company's recently announced Brillian 1920, a high-resolution, reflective liquid crystal on silicon...

Displaytech Ships Millionth Microdisplay.
January 1, 2002... Displaytech, Inc. (2602 Clover Basin Dr., Longmont, CO 80503; Tel: 303/772-2191, Fax: 303/772-2191) a leading developer and manufacturer of ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) microdisplays, announced the shipment of its one-millionth...

PROJECTON DISPLAYS: DLP Projector for Color Applications.(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America (9351 Jeronimo Rd., Irvine, CA 92618; Tel: 888/880-6351), a maker of high-quality presentation and display products, announced the presentation industry's first DLP projector specifically designed for...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Dedicated Memory for Digital Displays.
January 1, 2002... STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland; Tel: 33-4-50-40-25-32, Fax: 33-4-50-40-25-40) announced a system memory device called a Scalar System Memory (SSM), designed specifically for use in advanced display products including monitors,...

INDUSTRY NEWS: SPD License to Avery Dennison.
January 1, 2002... Research Frontiers, Inc. (Woodbury, NY), the developer and licensor of fast-responding SPD light control technology, announced that Avery Dennison Corp., a global leader in consumer and industrial products, has acquired a worldwide...

Cambridge Display Acquires Litrex.
January 1, 2002... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, Cambridge, U.K.) said it has acquired Litrex Corp., based in Pleasanton, California, from Gretag Imaging of Regensdorf, Switzerland, for an undisclosed amount. Litrex is pioneering Piezo Micro Deposition...

Mitsubishi Invests in Vitex.
January 1, 2002... Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) has invested $15 million in Vitex Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Battelle, charged with commercializing vacuum polymer technology (VPT). This technology provides key technical solutions to using organic...

UDC Converts August Placement.
January 1, 2002... Universal Display Corp. (UDC, Ewing, NJ) said it has received $5 million, representing the balance of the purchase price for the preferred stock it sold to investors in August 2001. Investors in the private placement also agreed to convert...

Awards Feature New Technologies.
January 1, 2002... The Society For Information Display (SID) and Information Display magazine have announced winners of the 2001 Display of the Year Awards, which will be presented May 22, 2002 at the awards luncheon of the annual SID Symposium and Exhibition...

$3.3 Million for Wearable Display.
January 1, 2002... Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA) said it has been awarded a $3.3 million development contract by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) for the initial phase...

Stocks Parallel Market Downturn.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Five of our 14 stocks ended the year 2001 on the plus side. Three others dropped under a dollar. That is not bad considering the pounding that the market took over the last half of the year. It has not been a good year for markets with a...

CALENDAR.
January 1, 2002... January 29, 2002. 2nd Int'l. Display Manufacturing Conference & Exhibition, Sheraton Walker-Hill Hotel, Seoul, Korea. Contact: Website: www.sid.org/conf/idmc2002/idmc2002html February 25-26, 2002. Fundamentals of OLED Fabrication,...