Display Development News articles from July 2001

Display Development News archives from July 2001

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Direct View HDTV Ready 32-in. XGA.(Princeton Graphics Systems' Ai3.2HD)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Princeton Graphics introduced a 32-inch viewable, flat screen, multi-scan CRT, NTSC compatible monitor with integrated Ch.1 interactive entertainment services for enhanced TV and Internet functionality. Known as the Ai3.2HD, the monitor is...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Sharp Has New TV Line.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Sharp Electronics Corp., the leader in LCD technology, has introduced a new line of flat screen televisions. The AQUOS series combines the bright, clear picture quality of the original LCD TVs with a sleek new design, brighter picture and the...

15-inch LCD for $399.(Radius Rad-5)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... KDS has announced the new Radius Rad-5, 15-inch ultra-thin LCD flat panel monitor. Currently available at Office Depot and Wal- Mart for $399, this monitor consumes a maximum of 32 kilowatt hours as compared with CRT monitors that consume a...

Panels for Mobile Terminals.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... NEC Corporation has announced its new 3.5-inch high image quality, reflective-type, amorphous silicon thin film transistor (TFT) color LCD panel. This new panel, complete with drivers, a front light, and touch panels, is designed to meet the...

NEC-Mitsubishi Shows Thin Frame Monitor.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America Inc. has introduced the latest in its next generation of desktop display products, the MultiSync LCD1850X, a thin frame monitor. Christopher Connery, LCD product line manager says, "The...

Highest Resolution Computer Monitor.(IBM T220)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... IBM announced the T220, the world's highest resolution flat panel monitor, enabling photograph-quality imaging for science, banking, engineering, publishing, medicine, and business critical visualization tasks. With a screen that shows 12 times...

PLASMA PANELS: Image Processing Chip in Plasma System.(Eizo Nanao InfoPerformer)(Product Information)
July 1, 2001... Genesis Microchip reports that Eizo Nanao Corp. (Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan) is using their gm VLX1A-X video processor in Eizo's InfoPerformer display system. Eizo's 42-inch high resolution 520P plasma panel is a critical part of their...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS Audi Evaluates PixTech Displays.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... PixTech Inc. delivered 7-inch full color field emission displays (FEDs) for evaluation by Audi under the Information Society Technologies Program of the European Commission started in January 2000. The displays have a 16:9 aspect ratio, a 480...

CopyTele, Futaba to Develop FED.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... CopyTele Inc. says it has entered into a joint cooperation agreement with Futaba Corporation of Mobara, Japan to jointly develop and commercialize a full-color video display using CopyTele's field emission display technology. The terms of...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Philips Says OLED Ready.(Philips Mobile Display Systems organic light emitting diode technology)
July 1, 2001... Philips Mobile Display Systems, a business group of Philips Components, announced its polymer-based organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology is now available for production of end products for small scale mobile applications such as cell...

eMagin Struts Its Stuff at SID.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... eMagin Corporation showcased its first commercially available full color, active matrix organic light emitting diode SVGA+ microdisplay at the SID Convention in San Jose, California. The company's microdisplays, which create virtual images...

UDC Video Screen Wows Shareholders.(Universal Display Corp)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Universal Display Corporation, a leading developer of LED technology, showed shareholders at its annual board meeting a flexible plastic display with video pictures using the Company's phosphorescent OLED technology. The green and red...

DARPA Funding for OLEDs Increased.(Universal Display Corp. awarded contract)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Universal Display Corporation has announced that it has been awarded an additional $1.5 million for its existing DARPA contract. The total contract now equals about $3 million for an 18-month program. The expanded program will focus on...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT Displays Gets CRT Quality Color.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... iFire Technology demonstrated an 8.5-inch flat panel video display with TV quality color on its proprietary inorganic electroluminescence (EL) technology to an audience of flat panel scientists and industry peers at the SID Convention in San...

MICRODISPLAYS: Improved QVGA from Displaytech.(Product Development)
July 1, 2001... Displaytech Inc., the leader in the development of ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) displays, announced at the SID Conference that it will soon start production of the QDM-0076-MV5 QVGA microdisplay, an improved version of its volume produced...

Color Microdisplay for Camcorders.(Displaytech and Miyota Co. Ltd licensing for LightView line)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Displaytech has announced that it is developing the industry's first color microdisplay specifically designed for use as a viewfinder in camcorders in conjunction with its Japanese manufacturing partner Miyota Co. Ltd. This new PLP display is...

Large Screen Projection from a Microdisplay.(Three-Five Systems Brillian 1920 developer kit)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Three-Five Systems has begun selling a new developer kit using the company's newly developed high resolution Brillian 1920 as a reflective LCoS microdisplay that contains over two million pixels of resolution. The kit will allow OEMs to...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Light Weight, Portable Multimedia Projector.(CP-S310W LCD projector from Hitachi America Ltd)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Hitachi America Ltd. unveiled the most recent member of its portable LCD projector family, the CP-S310W. Priced at under $6,500, the new model provides a low cost solution for educational purposes or for the budget conscious business. And it...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: National's LVDS Chip Supports Wide Screens.(National Semiconductor DS90C2501microcontroller)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... National Semiconductor introduced a highly integrated LVDS transmitter with scalar for TFT LCD flat panels and notebooks, all-in-one PCs, and industrial PCs. The DS90C2501 works alongside Intel's integrated Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)...

Nanotriode-Carbon Nanotube Transistor.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... SI Diamond Technology Inc. through its subsidiary, Field Emission Picture Element Inc. (FEPET) announced that it has operated a new nanotriode-type transistor from carbon nanotubes. These carbon nanotubes, which resemble nanowires, are 500...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Sheldahl Starts Display Unit.(Company Operations)
July 1, 2001... Sheldahl Inc. (Northfield, Minn.), a leader in vacuum deposition of thin film coatings on polymer substrates, has created a new business unit focused on the display products industry. The new unit will combine the company's strategic expertise...

Video Display Acquires XKD.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Video Display Corporation (VDC) in a move toward becoming the primary source for global requirements for military, medical, and industrial CRTs and CRT-based display systems, has announced the acquisition of XKD Corp. of San Jose, California....

DuPont, Three-Five Form Joint Venture.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... DuPont Displays, a business unit of DuPont iTechnologies (Wilmington, DE) and Three-Five Systems (Tempe, AZ) have formed Three-D OLED L.L.C., a new display module joint venture which will design, assemble, and market Organic Light Emitting...

Polar Vision Is Southwall Distributer.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Southwall Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has signed an agreement with Polar Vision of Torrance, California, appointing them as the exclusive distributor in North America for Southwall's electronic display products. Polar Vision is an...

Hynix in LCD Joint Venture with China.(Cando Corp., Hynix Semiconductor, and Beijing Orient Electronics Group joint venture)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Hynix Semiconductor (Seoul, South Korea) the world's third largest computer memory chipmaker, says it has signed a letter of intent to set up a flat panel display joint venture with Beijing Orient Electrics of China and Cando Corp. of Taiwan....

PixTech Adds U.S. Reps.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... PixTech (Santa Clara, CA and Rousset, France) has entered into contracts with six manufacturer representatives to market PixTech products throughout the U.S. The representatives are Bear Marketing in Brecksville, Ohio; Eastern Systems Inc.,...

Army Award to eMagin for OLED.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... eMagin Corporation (Hopewell Junction, NY) has been selected to receive a 2001 U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Quality award for the development of high resolution active matrix OLED microdisplays for incorporation...

UDC, Chitose in Research Deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Universal Display Corporation says it has entered into an agreement with the Chitose Institute of Science an Technology to work with Chihaya Adachi focusing on high efficiency materials and device structure based on Electrophosphorescent OLEDs....

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
July 1, 2001... June 3-8, 2001. SID International. Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition, San Jose, CA. Contact: SID, 31 E. Julian St., San Jose CA 95112. June 13-15, 2001. INFOCOMM 2001, Las Vegas, NV. Contact: ICIA: Tel: 703/273-7200. June 25-28,...