Display Development News articles from March 2001

Display Development News archives from March 2001

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Monitor May Change Financial Trading.(used in IBM IntelliStation R Pro)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... IBM (3039 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, Raleigh NC 27709; Tel: 919/486-0930) announced a rack-mounted computer workstation and a flat panel monitor that free up space and cut energy and maintenance costs in the hectic, cramped,...

Aggressively Priced 18-in. NEC Unit.(NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America's NEC MultiSync LCD1830)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America, Inc. (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) announced a new 18 in. MultiSync monitor. With a street price of just $1,899, the Model LCD1830 is designed to deliver the...

Rugged 18 in. for Tactical Applications.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... IBM (Old Orchard Rd., Armonk, NY 10504; Tel: 914/765-1900) announced a new 18 in. LCD that plays a key role in the latest tactical information technology equipment developed exclusively for the Dept. of Defense. Technology Advancement Group...

Commercial, Rugged Wide Format Display.(from Intergraph Government Solutions)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Intergraph Government Solutions, a subsidiary of Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, AL 35984; Tel: 256/730-2000, Fax: 256/730-2461) announced the availability of the industry's first wide format (WUXGA) 24 in. flat panel display in commercial and...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: Richardson Distributes Pioneer Monitors.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Richardson Electronics (40 W 267 Keslinger Rd., LaFox, IL 60147; Tel: 630/208-2200, Fax: 630/208-2350), a global provider of display monitors and systems, signed a distribution agreement with the Industrial Display Div. of Pioneer New Media...

$9,995 for 42 in. Plasma Display.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Hitachi America, Ltd. (3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Norcross, GA 30092; Tel: 770/409-3000, Fax: 770/409-3028), a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, announced a significant price point for the world class 42 in. Hitachi display panel...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Sony Develops Thin Screen.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Sony Corp. (Display Device Group, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141, Japan; Tel: 81-3-495-3630, Fax: 81-3-495-3724) has an organic electroluminescent (OELD) display prototype that is just a little thicker than a credit card. The company demonstrated its...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAYS Venture to Make, Sell Substrates.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Tohoku Pioneer Corp. (Tsuga-machi, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi, Japan; Tel: 023-654-9355) a subsidiary of Pioneer Corp. announced an agreement to establish a joint venture company for the production and sale of TFT substrates for an active matrix...

MICRODISPLAYS: Three-Five Uses Liquid Crystal.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85251; Tel: 602/389-8600) is building microdisplays on UMC's unique liquid crystal on silicon "LcoS" semiconductor process. Three-Five is developing its newest microdisplays utilizing UMC's LCoS...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS Cinema Projector Uses DLP.(NEC Technologies' NE SX6000-DC)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... In a revolution of the digital and electronic cinema industry, NEC Technologies (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) announced its new SX6000-DC HD Cinema Projector, the first compact SXGA high light output (HLO)...

PDA Systems Under Four Pounds.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Presenting Solutions (931 Cable Negocio, San Clemente, CA 92673; Tel: 800/701-9869) the leading Web-centric supplier of portable projectors and presentation equipment, says that it will bundle Presenter-to-Go and the Springboard module from...

MATERIALS: SMP Patents Phosphor Technology.(Superior MicroPowders)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Superior MicroPowders, LLC (3740 Hawkins NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109; Tel: 505/342-1492, Fax: 505/342-2168) has recently been issued a broad based U.S. patent pertaining to oxide-based phosphor powders for the display industry. The newly issued...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Higher Resolution at Lower Cost.(from ClairVoyante Laboratories)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Flat panel displays on all types of devices from handheld units to laptop computers can now be brighter, with four times the resolution, because of an ingenious sub-pixel rendering algorithm that also conserves battery power. ClairVoyante...

White Gets Patent for LCD Technology.(White Electronic Designs)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... White Electronic Designs (3601 University Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85034; Tel: 602/437-1520, Fax: 602/437-9120) announced it was awarded U.S. Patent 6,181,394 B1 for its super bright low reflectance (SBLR) technology that can significantly enhance the...

. . . and Gets Aerospace Order for SBLR Displays.(White Electronic Designs display division contract with Smiths Aerospace)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Shortly after the announcement regarding the patent award, White Electronic Designs says its display division received a $1.5 million production order from Smiths Aerospace in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The order is for optically enhanced and...

PROCESS NEWS: Venture to Make LCDs in Singapore.(Matsushita Industrial and Toshiba)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Industrial Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) says they will establish a joint venture to make low temperature polysilicon LCD panels in Tampines, Singapore. The new company will be incorporated in March of this year and its...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Organization For Photon Dynamics.(Company Operations)
March 1, 2001... Photon Dynamics (San Jose, CA) announced a new organizational structure designed to optimize the development, marketing, sales, and support of the company's products and services by identifying three divisions: flat panel display; CRT display...

Venture to Keep Japan LCD Lead.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 2001... Sharp Corp. and five other Japanese electronics makers have a goal to keep Japan on top in LCD technology with the formation of a joint venture to conduct basic research, according to Sharp officials in Tokyo. "Achieving international...

Candescent Files to Go Public.(Company Financial Information)
March 1, 2001... Candescent Technologies (San Jose, CA), a maker of thin cathode ray tubes used for flat panel screens, has filed with U.S. regulators for an initial stock offering. The company did not provide details such as how many shares it plans to offer...

$11 Million Order from Lockheed.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Luxell Technologies (Mississauga, Ontario) announced it has received $1.4 million in orders from Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Egan to supply flat panel displays for the U.S. Navy's Anti-Surface Warfare Improvement...

Kopin Reports 81% Increase.(Company Financial Information)
March 1, 2001... Kopin Corp. (Taunton, MA) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2000. The company announced an increase in revenue of 81% to $24.6 million compared with $13.6 million for the same period in 1999 and an...

Philips Keynotes USDC Conference.(the sixth annual Display Industry Investors Conference; Tom Branton, VP of innovation for Philips Components)(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 2001... The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC, San Jose, CA), a public/private partnership chartered with developing the flat panel display supply chain, announced that Tom Branton, VP of innovation for Philips Components, will deliver the keynote address...

Second Microdisplay Conference Wants Papers.(Microdisplay 2001)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The second international conference on microdisplays will focus on technologies related to the development of microdisplay-based systems. The application of microdisplays for personal use, entertainment, and large audience venues is growing...

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY STOCK WATCH.
March 1, 2001... Only one of fourteen stocks was in the plus column as February came to a close. It looks like a disaster and the market slide continues. The word "slowdown" has changed to "recession" as stocks continued their free-fall. There is still concern...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
March 1, 2001... April 23-28, 2001. Microtechnology (at Hanover Fair), Hannover, Germany. Contact: Website: www.hannovermesse.de April 30-May 3, 2001, International Reliability Physics Symposium, IEEE, Orlando, FL. Contact: Website: www.irps.org June...