Display Development News articles from May 2000

Display Development News archives from May 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES: ViewSonic Shows First 22-in. Flat Monitor.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... ViewSonic Corp. (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA; Tel: 909/869-7976, Fax: 909/468-1202) announced its new 22-in. (20-in. viewable) PF815 PerfectFlat technology monitor. This is the first ViewSonic 22-in. monitor designed with a flat screen to...

Rear Projection Approaches HDTV.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Sony Electronics (1 Sony Dr., Park Ridge, NJ 07656: Tel: 201/369-3467) announced major enhancements in rear-projection television technology with the availability of 53-in. and a 61-in. big screen TVs. Both models incorporate the latest...

Natural Flat CRTs from NEC.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... Following the success of its MultiSync FE700, NEC has expanded its range with four new natural flat CRT monitors. The FE700M (17 in. multimedia), FE750 (17 in.), FE950 (19 in.) and FE1250 (22 in.) complete the new line and allow the company to...

Low Price Monitors Offered Online.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... MonitorsDirect.com, the online store for Cornerstone Peripherals Technology (Fremont, CA; Tel: 510/580-3321) announced significant price reductions across its product line. The model c1025 leads the price cuts and now becomes the industry's...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: Digital Interface TFT for High-End Displays.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... NEC Technologies (475 Ellis St., Mountain View, CA 94039; Tel: 415/965-6595, www.necel.com) and parent NEC Corp. developed a 20.1-in. TFT LCD with digital interface offering display of up to 16.77 million colors and wide viewing angles. The...

Alliance to Make Touchscreen Monitors.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Eizo Nanao Technologies (5710 Warland Dr., Cypress, CA 90630; Tel: 562/431-5011, Fax: 562/431-4811) announced a partnership with MicroTouch Systems (Methuen, MA)--the global leader in touch-input solutions--to produce 18.1-in. touchscreen LCD...

Demand Up for Low Temp Poly-Si LCDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) plans to invest about $358 million to almost double the capacity of its low temperature polysilicon (LTP) TFT LCD production line. The investment paves the way for mass production of LTP TFTs as large as 15 in. and...

Four-in. Low Temp Poly-Si Cuts Costs.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... Toshiba America Electronic Components (contact info above) also said the company will commercialize the world's first 4-in. color reflective low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) thin film transistor (TFT) LCD with 202 pixels per inch (ppi) VGA...

Lighter, Thinner, More Compact 15.7-in. LCD.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... LG Philips LCD Co., Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; Tel: 011-82-2-3777-0707) has developed the industry's first 15.7-in. SXGA-LCD display for use in desktop monitor applications. It is comparable in price to that of a 15 in. XGA-LCD module and...

Flat Panel Monitors for the Masses.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... For customers who want to make the most out of their desktop space, IBM (Research Triangle Park, NC) says it is tripling its line of space-saving TFT flat panel monitors and quoting new, aggressive price reductions on several of its most...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: Hitachi to Show 37 in. Monitor.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... Hitachi America (Brisbane, CA), a subsidiary of Hitachi America (3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Norcross, GA; Tel: 770/409-3000, Fax: 770/409-3028) introduced an XGA-compatible 37 in. color plasma display monitor. The model CMP307 has a 1,024 by 768...

Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Gets Help From Sony.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Fujitsu, Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd., and Sony Corp. announced they have reached a basic agreement on Sony's equity participation in Fujitsu Hitachi Display, Ltd. (FHP, Kanagawa Science Park, 3-2-1- Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken, Japan...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS: Partnership to Develop OLED Technology.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Eastman Kodak Co. (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/724-4513, Website at www.kodak.com), SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., and ULVAC Japan, Ltd. (Tokyo) announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop organic light emitting diode (OLED)...

MICRODISPLAYS: Displaytech Gets $28 Million in Equity.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2000... Displaytech, Inc. (2602 Clover Basin Dr., Longmont, CO 0503: Tel: 303/772-2191, Fax: 303/772-2193, Website: www.displaytech.com) said the company has sold equity valued at $28 million to limited partnerships managed by Fleming US Discovery...

Three-Five and Mitsui in Development Agreement.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85251; Tel: 602/389-8600, Website: www.threefive.com), working in conjunction with Mitsui and Co., Ltd. of Japan under its joint marketing and sales contract, announced the completion of an...

Three-Five Proposes Issuing More Shares.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2000... In addition to the news in the article above, Three-Five says it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed public offering of 2,600,000 shares of its common stock, on a split adjusted basis. The offering is being made...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: High Brightness and Pointer Capability.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... Canon U.S.A., Inc. (3200 Regent Blvd., Irving, TX; Tel: 972/830-9696) introduced three new XGA resolution LCD projectors that provide greater brightness and pointer capabilities to make presentations easier to manage and to watch. According to...

Ultra-Light Portable Can Go Anywhere.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS), Computer Systems Group (Irvine, CA; Tel: 714/560-7713 or 800/TOSHIBA, Website: www.computers.toshiba.com) introduced an addition to its sleek line of personal digital projectors, the TDP-S1....

INDUSTRY NEWS: Investment in Large Low-Temp Poly-Si.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Toshiba America Electronic Components (Irvine, CA. Contact: Jan Johnson; Tel: 714/245-7500) announced that Toshiba Corp. has made an investment of more than $350 million in production facilities that will maintain the company's market...

Planar Net Jumps 80%.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2000... Planar Systems, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) reported sales of $40.6 million, the highest in the company's history, and an 80% increase in net income for the second quarter ended March 31, 2000 compared to a year ago. Sales increased 39% in the second...

SpatiaLight Reports Fiscal Year 1999 Loss.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2000... SpatiaLight (Novato, CA) a leading developer of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) microdisplay devices, reported revenues for the 12 months ended December 31, 1999 of $62,000, with a net loss of $7.4 million, or a loss per basic and diluted...

SGI Enters Distribution Deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... SGI (1600 Amphitheater Pkwy., Mountain View, CA 94043; Tel: 650/960-1980. Contact: Sondra Magness; Tel: 650/933-8043) announced a strategic partnership with International Computer Graphics, Inc. (ICG) to begin immediate distribution of SGI...

Kopin Reports Record Sales.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2000... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/824-6696), a leading developer of miniature flat panel displays and gallium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) products, reported financial results for the...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Plastic Circuits for Flexible Displays.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... A novel material developed by Lucent Technologies (Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ. Contact: Steve Eisenberg; Tel: 908/582-7474, Website: www.lucent.com) may prove to be the key ingredient for economically making plastic transistor circuits....

Digital Processors Manage Color.(Sage Jaguar family)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... Sage, Inc. (2460 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131; Tel: 408/383-5300, Fax: 408/383-5310. Contact: Pulin Desai, Director of Marketing; Tel: 408/383-5300) announced the addition of its Jaguar family of digital display processors to its existing...

PROCESS NEWS: Tin Oxide Coated Glass Is Less Costly.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... AFG Industries (P.O. Box 929, Kingsport, TN; Tel: 423/299-7200. Contact: John Litzinger, Executive VP) announced the acquisition of an exclusive license for the patented tin oxide etching technology of Feldman Technology Corp. (FTC, U.S....

CALENDAR.(News Briefs)
May 1, 2000... Aug. 8-9, 2000, Microdisplays Symposium, Boulder, CO. Contact: Southwest Chapter of the Society of Information Display. Contact: John O'Donnell; Tel: 602/436- 7113. Sept. 25-29, 2000, Twentieth Int'l. Display Research Conference, Palm...

TI Says DLP Shipments Are Up Over 250%.(Texas Instruments)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Texas Instruments (TI, PO Box 655474, Dallas, TX 75265; Tel: 972/995-2011, Fax: 972/995-4360) says that shipments of its digital light processing (DLP) subsystems in the first quarter were up over 250% on year-ago levels. The company also...

Microvision Gets $7.5 Million.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2000... Microvision, Inc. (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415- 6847, Website: www.mvis.com) says the company has received $7.5 million from Capital Venture International following the exercise of an option to acquire 418,848...

Touchscreen Panel Distribution Pact.(Jaco Electronics, MicroTouch Systems)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Jaco Electronics, Inc. (Hauppauge, NY) says it has been appointed by MicroTouch Systems (Methuen, MA) to be one of two distributors authorized to distribute its product. This agreement marks the first outside distribution agreement in...