Display Development News articles from March 2000

Display Development News archives from March 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES: 22-in. Flat Screen Desktop for Graphic.(Mitsubishi Electric Display Products introduction of its Diamond Pro 2040u)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2000... The parade of flat screen CRT products continued with the Mitsubishi Electric Display Products introduction of its Diamond Pro 2040u-which takes its position at the top of the range of DIAMONDTRON NF monitors. With a perfectly flat 22-in....

CRTs Dominant in PC Market.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The worldwide PC monitor market enjoyed healthy growth in 1999, closely mirroring advances in the overall PC market. According to IDC (Framingham, MA), revenues grew 24.9% (year-over-year) to go past $33 billion in 1999. CRT-based PC monitors...

Multimedia Displays Provide HDTV, Graphics.(Princeton Graphics introduces the ARCADIA T-series AR3.2T and AR2.7T multimedia displays)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2000... Princeton Graphics (2801 South Yale St., Santa Ana, CA 92704; Tel: 714/751-8405 or 800/747-6249, Fax: 714/751-5736) introduced the ARCADIA T-series AR3.2T and AR2.7T multimedia displays. Both 4:3 direct view CRTs are versatile, high-...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS : NEC Cuts 15-in. Monitor Prices.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... NEC Technologies (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143), in a continuing effort to provide the widest selection of aggressively priced LCD solutions, announced price reductions on four MultiSync LCD desktop monitors. The 15-in. LCD...

Single Chip Cuts Monitor Costs.(Trident Microsystems, Inc's PanelPro and PanelTV)
March 1, 2000... Trident Microsystems, Inc. (189 N. Bernardo Ave., Mountain View, CA; Tel: 415/691-9211, Fax: 415/691-9260), a leader in digital video and graphics solutions for the PC and consumer digital video marketplace, announced two product...

Hi-Res for Next Generation Notebooks.(ATI Technologies is collaborating with Toshiba Corp)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... ATI Technologies (Thornhill, Ontario; Tel: 905/882-2600) says it is collaborating with Toshiba Corp. to make it possible for its 15-in. high- resolution (1600 by 1200 pixels) TFT LCD to be adopted in the next generation notebook marketplace....

Seimens Chooses Planar Monitor.(Seimens Medical Systems, Inc.; Planar Systems D6015TM)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Planar Systems (1400 NW Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100, Fax: 503/690-1493) says that their D6015TM 15-in., flat panel, active matrix TFT medical grade monitor has been chosen by Seimens Medical Systems, Inc. to be...

UXGA Resolution in 10.4-in. Display.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) says it reinforced its leadership in high- resolution low temperature polysilicon TFT LCDs by bringing 1,600 by 1,200 UXGA resolution to a 10.4-in. display. The new LCD achieves an unmatched 0.132-mm dot pitch and...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS : First HyFED Prototype.(SI Diamond Technology)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... SI Diamond Technology (12000 Technology Blvd., Austin, TX 78727; Tel: 512/331- 6200) announced that its subsidiary, Field Emission Picture Element Technology (FEPET) assisted by an international development team formed to develop the first...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT: Bright, Full Color Solid State Display.(iFire Technology, Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... iFire Technology, Inc. (15 City View Dr., Ontario, Canada; Tel: 416/246-1030, Website: www.westaim.com), formerly Westaim Advanced Display Technologies, Inc. and a subsidiary of the Westaim Corp., demonstrated a significant brightness...

iFire, TDK Form Partnership.(iFire Technology)
March 1, 2000... The newly formed iFire Technology wasted no time in getting established in the display market. The company says it has entered into a US$25 million strategic partnership agreement with TDK Corp. of Japan for technology collaboration and...

MICRODISPLAYS: Kopin Doubles CyberDisplay Capacity.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958) announced plans to double the production capacity of its CyberDisplay products to 200,000 units per month by July 2000. This is the second major...

CMD, Hana in Microdisplay Deal.(Colorado Microdisplay Inc; Hana Microdisplay Technology)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Colorado Microdisplay, Inc. (2477 55th St., Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/546- 9700, Fax: 303/546-9800) and Hana Microdisplay Technology (HMTI, Twinsburg, OH) announced a strategic supply agreement in which HTMI will source CMD with high...

Three-Five Offers Reflective Displays.(Three Five Systems, Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Three Five Systems, Inc. (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85251; Tel: 602/389- 8600) says it will extend its core LCD product line by offering reflective color displays primarily for use in wireless and personal communications devices. ...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Light Projector for Those on the Go.(ViewSonic Corp.'s PJL1005-LITEBIRD)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2000... ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789; Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) announced a new addition to its expanding office theater projector series, the PJL1005-LITEBIRD. This model is specifically designed for travelling...

Projector Rental Program.(Lightware, Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with Genigraphics)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
March 1, 2000... Lightware, Inc. (9875 SW Sunshine Court, Beaverton, OR; Tel: 800/211-9001) has signed a partnership agreement with Genigraphics, a leading producer of high impact business presentations, to offer traveling professionals the opportunity to rent...

InFocus Announces Trade-in Program.(projectors)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... InFocus (27700B SW Parkway Ave., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/85-8888, Fax: 503/692-8887), the worldwide leader in data/video projectors, announced the expansion of its customer services to include a projector technology upgrade program....

Five-Pound Projector from Proxima.(Proxima Corp Proxima UltraLight DS2, DX2 and DX3)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2000... Proxima Corp. (9440 Carroll Park Dr., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 619/457-5500) announced the industry's first comprehensive family of five-pound , ultraportable projectors featuring the latest Texas Instruments digital light processing (DLP)...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: World's Smallest TFT LCD Controllers.(SmartASIC, Inc's SD1010A controller and the SD1010D controller)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2000... SmartASIC, Inc. (525 Race St., San Jose, CA 95126; Tel: 408/283-5098, Fax: 408/283-5099) introduced a new family of advanced TFT LCD controllers for a wide spectrum of the LCD monitor market. The family members include the SD1010A...

INDUSTRY NEWS: New Standards for Display Devices.(Video Electronics Standards Association)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA, Milpitas, CA), the leading video display standards organization, announced four standards for computer displays. Some of the standards are new while others are enhancements of existing...

Model for Display Acquisition.(U.S. Display Consortium-Litton TASC contract)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2000... The U.S. Display Consortium (San Jose, CA), a public/private partnership chartered with developing the flat panel display infrastructure, awarded a software development contract to Litton TASC, Inc. (Reading, MA), a division of Litton...

Trident in Alliance with Unipac.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2000... Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced that it has entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement dated February 10, 2000 with Unipac Optoelectronics Corp., a leading Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel manufacturer and Hsun Chieh...

PROCESS NEWS: System Allows Larger Substrates.(AKT, Applied Materials intro AKT 5500 CVD system)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2000... AKT, Inc.(3203 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 408/727-6060, Fax: 408/727-6332), and Applied Materials Co., the world's leading supplier of CVD equipment to the flat panel display industry, introduced the AKT 5500, a new generation...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
March 1, 2000... May 14-19, 2000. SID Int'l. Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA. Contact: Jay Morreale, Palisades Institute for Research Services, 411 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10003; Tel: 212/460-8090. Aug....