Display Development News articles from June 2000

Display Development News archives from June 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Chip Adds Value to Digital CRTs.(Genesis Microchip gm7010)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... In an effort to make digital CRTs look and work better, Genesis Microchip (200 Town Centre, Ontario, Canada L3R 8G5; Tel: 905/470-2742, Fax: 905/470-9022) introduced the gm7010 digital CRT controller, the first in a series of image processors...

Big Monitor for A Small Price.(ViewSonic Corp's NokiA 445ZA)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... ViewSonic Corp. (Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869-7976, 800/296- 6542, Fax: 909/468-1202, Website: www.viewsonic.com/prod) has announced a 21-in. display that allows several applications to be performed simultaneously. It also...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS LCD Internet Display Devices.(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... AG neovo (San Jose, CA; Tel: 408/321-8210) introduced two LCD internet display devices at RetailVision's annual spring reseller conference. High-end systems and peripheral resellers were impressed with the quality, features, pricing,...

Philips Flat Panels Ride in Shuttle.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Philips Flat Panel Display Systems (FDS, 3200 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/570-5799) announced that NASA's Atlantis space shuttle (STS-101), which launched in late May, is equipped with a Boeing and Honeywell-designed...

Polysilicon Panels for Handheld Devices.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Toshiba Corp. (1060 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA 95131; Tel: 408/456-8900, Fax: 408/456-9002) introduced one of the industry's first reflective polysilicon active matrix LCDs to make high resolution panels more competitive in the handheld...

PLASMA PANELS: Fujitsu to Market 37-In. XGA Module.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Fujitsu Microelectronics (FMI, 3545 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/922-8905, Fax: 408/922-9862) will market a new 37-in. plasma display module for public information and presentation display applications. The panel, which was...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS Breakthrough in Carbon Films.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... SI Diamond Technology (12100 Technology Blvd., Austin, TX 78727; Tel: 512/339- 5020), through its subsidiary Field Emission Picture Element Technology (FEPET), says that researchers have succeeded in developing a consistent, repeatable process...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Three Patents for OLEDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Universal Display Corp. (UDC, 375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618; Tel: 800/599- 426) developer of a flat panel technology based on organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) says that its research partners, Princeton University and the University of...

Micropatterns Up Production Volumes.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Universal Display Corp. (UDC) announced that its research partner Princeton University has developed a novel process for patterning electrodes in OLEDs that shows promise of making them more efficient and less expensive to manufacture. The...

Kodak & eMagin Extend Agreement.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Eastman Kodak Co. (State St., Rochester, NY; Tel: 716/722-0223) and eMagin Corp. (2720 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/892-1900), a leading developer of optoelectronics and virtual imaging technology, disclosed that the term of...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT: iFire Technology Demos TV Prototype.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... A subsidiary of the Westaim Corp., iFire Technology (Toronto, Canada) unveiled a 17-in. prototype flat panel TV display. The experimental display was developed in part through a collaboration with a large Japanese consumer electronics...

MICRODISPLAYS: Kopin Gets Huge Order.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA; Tel:508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958) announced it has begun shipping its CyberDisplay 320 in volume to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics,...

. . . and Partners on Projection Device.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... InFocus also made the news by formalizing an agreement with Three-Five Systems, designer and manufacturer of custom LCD products, to drive the development of a new display technology. InFocus will collaborate with Three-Five to create a liquid...

Lightweight Projector Uses DLP Technology.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Texas Instruments (TI, Box 655474, Dallas, TX 75265; Tel: 972/995-2011, Fax: 972/995-4360) says that Plus Corp.-one of its customers for digital light processing (DLP) technology-had developed two new microportable projectors each weighing...

HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS Consortium Gets Wearable Display.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Microvision, Inc. (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415- 6847, Fax: 425/415-6600, Website: www.mvis.com) delivered an advanced portable head mounted display system to ARVIKA, an international consortium led by Seimens AG....

Retinal Display Used in Neurosurgery.(Product Information)
June 1, 2000... Microvision also reported that surgeons at Kettering Medical Center's Wallace Kettering Neuroscience Institute (WKNI) in Dayton, Ohio, completed their first "live" surgery on May11, incorporating the company's headworn retinal scanning...

MATERIALS: Thin Film Makes Screens Brighter.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Trivium Technologies (Cleveland, OH; Tel: 440/892-4918) says it is developing a prototype and manufacturing process for a flexible polymer thin film that will dramatically improve the visual quality of the liquid crystal display. The Trivium...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Profits Up at Sharp.(Company Financial Information)
June 1, 2000... After two years of profit declines, Sharp Corp.'s (Tokyo, Japan) profits are up by more than six times for the latest fiscal year, thanks to rising sales of liquid crystal displays. Analysts had expected sharply higher profits for the company...

Motorola Cuts FED Operation.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Motorola (Schaumberg, Ill.) has once again taken a step back from commercializing its field emission display (FED) technology, and has refocused the activities of its flat panel display division on research and development. Word of this move...

Video Display's Year End Results.(Company Financial Information)
June 1, 2000... Video Display Corp. (1868 Tucker Industrial Dr., Atlanta, GA 30084; Tel: 770/93- 2080) announced revenues and operating results for its fiscal year and its fourth quarter ended February 29, 2000. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal...

Video Display Acquires Lexel Images.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Video Display Corp., in a major move toward becoming the consolidated source for global requirements for military, medical, and industrial cathode ray tubes, signed an agreement to acquire Lexel Imaging Systems, Inc. of Lexington, Kentucky, a...

Common Stock Offering By Three-Five Systems.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Three-Five Systems (Tempe, AZ) announced the public offering of 2,150,000 shares of common stock at $55 per share. The company is selling all of the common stock offering. The shares are offered through underwriters led by Banc of America...

Korea May Cut Aid for Displays.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... The flat panel display industry has become the second most strategic manufacturing business for South Korea (after semiconductors), but it needs government support. Industry analysts say, however, that just the opposite may happen. Government...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Color Driver ICs for Cellular Phones.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Toshiba America Electronic Components (1060 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA; Tel: 408/456-8900) says that Toshiba Corp. and Samsung Electronics Corp. will co- develop driver integrated circuits for color super twisted nematic (STN) LCDs with...

PROCESS NEWS: Order for Automated Display Inspection.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Image Processing Systems (IPS, 2440 Pharmacy Ave., Ontario, Canada M1W 2P8; Tel: 416/492-4000, Fax: 416/492-4001) announced it has received orders valued at over $700,000 from Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. The orders represent the first major sale to...

Inspection Order Exceeds $10 Million.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Orbotech, Ltd. (Yavne, Israel; Tel: +972-8-942-3560) received a major order from Taiwan-based Quanta Display, Inc. totaling over $10 million, for multiple FPI- 7090 automated optical inspection (AOI) system to be used in the company's liquid...

SolidWorks 3D CAD Selected as Standard.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... SolidWorks Corp., a Dassault Systems S.A. company (300 Barker Ave., Concord, MA, 01742; Tel: 978/371-5000, Fax: 978/371-7303) and a leading provider of easy-to- use 3D CAD software for the mainstream market, announced that Planar Systems...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
June 1, 2000... Sept. 25-29, 2000. Twentieth Int'l. Display Research Conference, Palm Beach, FL. Contact: Ralph Nadell, Palisades Institute; Tel: 212/460-8090. Nov. 6-8, 2000. Science and Technology of Display Phosphors, Catamaran Resort Hotel, San...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS InFocus Adds Notebook Features . . .(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... InFocus (27700B SW Parkway Ave., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685-8888 or 800/294-6400, Fax: 503/692-8887, Website: www.infocus.com) introduced the LP335 digital notebook projector. Setting new standards for features and brightness in the...