Display Development News articles from June 2002

Display Development News archives from June 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: LCD Advances Are Key to TV, Monitor Markets.
June 1, 2002... Many items in this issue describe the latest and greatest technologies shown at the annual convention of the Society for Information Display held in Boston, Massachusetts, in late May. There were demonstrations of many advances in the already...

CATHODE RAY TUBES: CMOS Preamps Improve Performance.(National Semiconductor's LM1237, LM1238 and LM1247)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... National Semiconductor Corp. (2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95052; Tel: 408/721-5000, Fax: 408/739-9803), the leader in analog video processing solutions, introduced three CMOS video preamplifiers with internal On Screen Display...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: Brightness Up 35% with Copper Interconnects.(L.G. Philips' copper-based interconnect technology)
June 1, 2002... L.G. Philips (Seoul, South Korea; Tel: 011-82-2-3777-0707), a leading innovator in LCD technology, has successfully developed a copper-based interconnect technology. Consequently, they will be able to manufacture lightweight displays with...

Thinnest TFT-LCD Is Performer.(Royal Philips of the Netherlands' QVGA TFT LCD color module)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... Royal Philips of the Netherlands (5600MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Tel: 31-40-724-173), making a first for the display industry, unveiled the world's thinnest 3.5-in. QVGA TFT LCD color module for next generation PDAs and smart phones. This...

Chip Set Enables Better Performance.(National Semiconductor's FPD33684 column driver)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... National Semiconductor (2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95052; Tel: 408/721-5000, Fax: 408/739-9803), the leader in analog video for displays, introduced the first in a family of new column drivers that uses the industry standard RSDS...

Samsung Shows First 40-in. Panel.(Samsung Semiconductor's TFT LCD panel)
June 1, 2002... Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. (3655 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 800/423-7364, Fax: 408/544-4919), demonstrated the world's first 40-in. TFT LCD panel for use in high-performance, wide-screen digital TVs at the SID show in Boston. It...

LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAYS LEDs Show the Way in RI.
June 1, 2002... Daktronics, Inc. (331 32nd Ave., Brookings, S.D. 57006; Tel: 605/697-4467, Fax: 605/697-4700), will provide a network of electronic displays for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. The contract includes the design, manufacture, and...

BTG to Market OLED Technology.(organic light-emitting diode)
June 1, 2002... BTG (Five Tower Bridge, 300 Barr Harbor Dr., West Conshohocken, PA 19428; Tel: 610/278-1660, Fax: 610/278-1605), the global technology commercialization company, said it will commercialize a portfolio of fabrication processes, devices, and...

Liteye Picks eMagin OLEDs.
June 1, 2002... Liteye Systems (Denver, CO) has selected a high-resolution SVGA+ OLED made by eMagin (Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/892-1900, Fax: 914/892-1901) for use in their lightweight display systems. Liteye plans to incorporate the...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT TV Prototype from iFire.(iFire Technology)
June 1, 2002... iFire Technology (15 City View Dr., Toronto, Canada M9W 5A5; Tel: 416/246-1030, Fax: 416/246-0458), a subsidiary of the Westaim Corporation, demonstrated a 17-inch prototype display at the SID Conference in Boston. iFire specializes in solid...

MICRODISPLAYS: Three-Five Acquires Inviso.(Three-Five Systems)
June 1, 2002... Three-Five Systems, Inc. (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801), said it had completed the acquisition of all of the intellectual property and selected assets from Inviso Corporation, a former LCoS...

SpatiaLight Provides Microdisplays to China.
June 1, 2002... SpatiaLight, Inc.(9 Commercial Blvd., Novato, CA 94949; Tel: 415/883-1693, Fax: 415/883-3363), a developer of LCoS microdisplays announced an "Agreement of Principal Terms" to supply its proprietary imagEngine microdisplays to Shanghai Video...

CyberDisplay Part of Inspection System.(Kopin's CyberDisplay 320M imaging subsystem for Noyes Fiber Systems' VS 300 View Safe Inspection Scope)
June 1, 2002... Kopin Corporation (685 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA; Tel: 508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958) said that it has begun production shipments of the CyberDisplay 320M imaging subsystem to Noyes Fiber Systems, a leading manufacturer of test...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Rear-Projection TV Demoed by Philips.(Royal Philips Electronics)
June 1, 2002... Royal Philips Electronics (Box 218, 5600 Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Tel: 31-40-724-173) demonstrated a 44-inch liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS)-based rear projection TV at the SID Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Based on Philips'...

Next Generation XGA Projection Engine.(from Three-Five Systems)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) showcased its recently announced XGA light engine for the first time at the Society for Information Display Conference. This complete, low-cost,...

MATERIALS: CDT, Bayer Agree on Polymers.(Cambridge Display Technology)
June 1, 2002... Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Cambridge Display Technology (Greenwich House, Madingley Rd., Cambridge CB3 OHJ, England, U.K.; Tel: 44-(0) 1223-723-555, Fax: 44 (0) 1223-723-556), leading researcher, commercial developer, and owner of the...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Viztec Gets Grant for Plastic LCD.
June 1, 2002... Viztec, Inc. (Twinsburg, OH), said it had received a $1 million Technology Action Fund (TAF) grant awarded by the State of Ohio. The company was founded in 1998 to bring to market unbreakable liquid crystal displays. Viztec intends to use...

Reflective Flat Panel Based on MEMS.(Iridigm Display's iMoD Matrix technology)
June 1, 2002... Iridigm Display Corporation (San Francisco, CA; Tel: 415/626- 8800), a developer of flat panel displays for mobile devices, demonstrated its iMoD Matrix technology at the Society for Information Display Conference in Boston last month. This...

PROCESS NEWS: Agreement for Antireflection Displays.
June 1, 2002... Polar Vision, Inc. (625 Alaska Ave., Torrance, CA 90503; Tel: 310/320-9768, Fax: 310/320-9357), a DuPont Displays Company, and OCLI (2789 Northpoint Pkwy., Santa Rosa, CA 95407; Tel: 707/545- 6440), a JDS Uniphase Company, agreed that Polar...

Philips Building 5th Generation Factory.(L.G. Philips LCD Company)
June 1, 2002... L.G. Philips LCD Co. (Seoul, South Korea, Tel: 011-82-2-3777-0707) announced that its new "P4" facility, the world's first fifth- generation (above one meter per side of substrate glass) TFT-LCD fabrication plant began volume production in...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Microvision Working on Auto Displays.
June 1, 2002... Microvision (Bothell, WA) said that, following the recent delivery of prototype systems to a leading European automobile manufacturer, it has been awarded a new contract to continue developing next-generation auto display products based on...

Teltron Completes Plant Expansion.(Teltron Technologies)
June 1, 2002... Teltron Technologies (Birdsboro, PA), a division of Video Display Corporation, has quadrupled its manufacturing space with the completion of an additional 30,000 sq. ft. of new custom building construction. New equipment is being installed...

Sumitomo Places Equity Investment into CDT.(Sumitomo Chemical's in Cambridge Display Technology)
June 1, 2002... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, Cambridge, U.K.), the owner of the fundamental intellectual property and know-how in light- emitting polymers (LEPs), and Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. of Tokyo, announced that Sumitomo has made an equity...

OLED Partnership Is Renewed.(organic light-emitting devices)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ), Princeton University, and the University of Southern California announced the expansion and extension of their collaborative research agreement on advanced organic thin film devices, including...

Shift Added to Meet Demand.(eMagin)
June 1, 2002... eMagin (Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533; Tel: 914/892-1900, Fax: 914/892-1901) has started microdisplay processing in a second shift at its manufacturing facilities in East Fishkill, New York. This extra effort comes after the company...

Agreement Covers Games Market.(eMagin with VRX Technologies Group)
June 1, 2002... eMagin (address above) also announced an agreement with VRX Technologies Group Ltd., a world leader in the development of visualization and simulation software, in which the companies will cooperatively market their respective virtual reality...

Display Stocks Hold Their Own.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... As happened last month, 7 of our 15 stocks ended the Month of May 2002 on the plus side. What is more notable, however, is the small amount of differences in price from April to May. Ten of our selected stocks recorded changes of less than...

CALENDAR.
June 1, 2002... July 3, 2002, 12th FPD Mfg. Technology Expo & Conf. FINETECH, Japan. Contact http://www.reedexpo.co.jp/fpd/english. Sept. 2-4, 2002, The 7th Asian Symposium on In formation Display (ASID '02), York Hotel, Singapore. Contact SID,...