Display Development News articles from June 2001

Display Development News archives from June 2001

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Price Cut on 21-in. Cornerstone Monitor.(Cornerstone Peripherals Technology's C1030)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Cornerstone Peripherals Technology (255 Hammond Ave., Fremont, CA 94539; Tel: 510/580-8900, Fax: 510/580-8998), a maker of high- quality computer monitors and business graphics cards, added a new member to its 21-in. monitor family. The C1030...

Princeton Ships HD-Ready Monitor.(Princeton's Ai3.6HD)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Princeton Graphic Systems (200 South Yale St., Santa Ana, CA 92794; Tel: 714/751-8405, Fax: 714/751-5736) said they shipped the world's first TV with a built-in interactive subsystem. Princeton's Ai3.6HD is a 36-in. viewable, 4:3 direct view...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS 15-in. Panel for $499.(ViewSonic VE150m)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... In its latest effort to drive the market transition to LCDs, ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) introduced a sleek new 15-in. LCD for just under $500. The ViewSonic VE150m features the...

17-in. LCD for Less Than $1,000.(ViewSonic Corp's17-in LCD ViewPanel VE170)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... ViewSonic Corp. also announced an aggressive price reduction on its popular 17-in. LCD ViewPanel, the VE170, to $995. This announcement further solidified the company's position as a price and performance leader and the VE170 is now the lowest...

Apple Offers All LCD Lineup.(17-in. Studio Display)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Apple Computer (1 Infinite Way, Cupertino, CA 95015; Tel: 408/996- 1010, Fax: 408/996-0275) is the first in the industry to move to an all-LCD flat panel display pro lineup. Apple unveiled a 17-in. Studio Display, a digital LCD featuring 1280...

18-in. TFT/LCD with Touch Screen.(ADVAN International's AGM18TK)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... ADVAN International (4404 Technology Dr., Fremont, CA 94538; Tel: 510/490-1005, Fax: 510/490-1104), a leading supplier of flat panel TFT/LCD display technology for medical systems, announced a new line of large-screen flat panel displays that...

Del Workstation Offers FPD.(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Dell Corporation (One Dell Way, Round Rock, TX 78682; Tel: 512/723-5858) announced the 530 Precision Workstation for computer-aided design engineers and designers, software developers, and digital content creators as well as financial analysts....

Improved Medical Display Offered.(Planar Systems, Inc's VitalScreen)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Planar Systems, Inc. (1400 N.W. Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100, Fax: 503/690-1493) launched an enhanced VitalScreen flat panel platform specifically designed to meet the stringent requirements of medical equipment...

PLASMA PANELS: Toshiba to Sell Big Screen TVs.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) said it would start to sell large screen TVs in the fall made with Plasma display technology from NEC Corp., another Japanese electronics manufacturer. According to the company, they are targeting sales of about...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS: Telegen Wins Patent for HGED Display.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... Telegen Corporation (1840 Gateway Dr., San Mateo, CA 94404; Tel: 650/349-4300, Fax: 650/261-9468) said that it filed a U.S patent application for an advanced version of its High Gain Emissive Display (HGED) flat panel display technology known...

Cambridge Display Licenses Osram.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, Madingley Rd., Cambridge CB3 OHJ, U.K.; Tel: 44-0-1223-723-555), the leading researcher and commercial technology developer of light emitting polymers (LEPs), announced it has granted Osram Opto Semiconductors...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Kodak Invests in RiTEK.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... DuPont Displays, a business unit of DuPont iTechnologies (Box 80352, Wilmington, DE 19860; Tel: 302/695-1258, Fax: 302/695- 4635), announced its plans to invest in RiTEK Display Technology Company, a subsidiary of RiTEK, Inc. In return, RiTEK...

Kodak Licenses OLED Tech to Opsys, Ltd.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... Kodak further expanded its efforts in this new technology by announcing that Opsys, Ltd., with headquarters in Oxford, United Kingdom, has become the first European licensee of Kodak's organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. As part of...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS Micro-Portables From InFocus.(SVGA resolution ASK C20 and XGA resolution ASK C60)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... InFocus Corp. (27700B SW Parkway Ave., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/692-8887) introduced two lightweight, feature-packed projectors-the ASK C20 and C60. Targeted at first- time users and those with limited budgets, these...

MATERIALS: MegaBright Blue Comes from Cree.(Cree MegaBright)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Cree, Inc. (4600 Silicon Dr., Durham, NC 27703; Tel: 919/313-5300, Fax: 919/313-5452) introduced the MegaBright blue light-emitting diode. The brightness level is increased two times over Cree's existing UltraBright devices, which were...

Thin Crystal Film for LCDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... Optiva, Inc. (377 Oyster Point Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080; Tel: 650/616-7600, Fax: 650/616-7602) the creator of a new class of nanomaterials for optical applications, and Nakan Co., Ltd. (Chiba, Japan), a leader in LCD-manufacturing...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: System-on-Chip Display Engines.(ADE3xxx family from STMicroelectronics)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland; Tel: 33-4-50-40-25-32), and (1000 East Bell Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85022; Tel: 602/485-6100, Fax: 602/485-6102) announced a new generation of Display Engine ICs targeted at the growing markets based on fixed...

PROCESS NEWS: Improved Display Developed by IBM.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... IBM Researchers (P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10589; Tel: 914/945-3499) have discovered a new process for making computer displays that can improve screen quality and viewing angles while saving manufacturers millions of dollars. This...

DRL Selects Temescal Evaporator.(Temescal's BJD-1800 electron beam evaporation system)(Product Information)
June 1, 2001... Display research Laboratories (DRL, 2051 Grant Rd., Los Altos, CA 94024; Tel: 650/969-3670, Fax: 650/969-3769) has selected Temescal's BJD-1800 electron beam evaporation system for use in developing emissive microdisplays. The displays are used...

INDUSTRY NEWS: USDC Contract for Backlights to Winsor.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC, San Jose, CA) a public/private partnership chartered with developing the flat panel display industry supply chain, announced a contract award to the Winsor Corporation (Tumwater, WA) to develop and test...

Electrograph Expands Sales Offices.(in Southwest and West Coast)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... Electrograph Systems (Hauppauge, NY), a wholly owned subsidiary of Manchester Technologies, Inc. and the largest wholesale distributor of plasma display monitors in the United States, announced that it is expanding its West Coast and Southwest...

Toshiba, IBM to Close LCD Venture.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY) and Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) and getting ready to shut down their thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display joint venture, Display Technology, Inc., as increased competition in the LCD market has made panel...

Sharp Will Speed Up New Plant.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... Sharp Corp.(Tokyo), Japan's top liquid crystal display manufacturer, said it would move forward the ramp up of production at its new production line to meet the growing demand for PC monitor LCD display. But, according to a spokesman, the move...

RSDS Platform Is Now an Open Spec.(from National Semiconductor)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced that its power-saving, low noise reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS) digital interface technology will now be available to any developer royalty free. This technology, used in TFT...

DuPont Takes Majority Stake in Polar Vision.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... DuPont Displays (Wilmington, DE), a fast-growing business unit of DuPont iTechnologies, announced a strategic investment in Polar Vision, an innovative optical components and lamination services provider serving display integrators and OEMs in...

Toppan, E Ink Team for Color Displays.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), the global market share leader in color filter arrays for flat panel displays, and E Ink (Cambridge, Mass.), the leading developer of electronic ink technology for paper-like displays, announced a...

MEETINGS: CMD to Sponsor Conference.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Colorado Microdisplay, Inc. (CMD, Boulder, CO) will be one of the lead sponsors of Microdisplay 2001, the 2nd Annual International Conference on Microdisplays. The conference will focus on the latest technologies related to the development of...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
June 1, 2001... June 3-8, 2001. SID Int'l. Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition, San Jose Convention Center, 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. ...