Display Development News articles from May 2001

Display Development News archives from May 2001

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: NEC-Mitsubishi Adopts Bold Pricing Strategy.(Product Information)
May 1, 2001... In response to the increasing popularity of flat panel monitors, NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America (1250 North Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 888/NEC-MITS) announced plans to extend its price reduction strategy for...

Low Power TFT for Telecommunications.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Philips Mobile Display Systems, a business group of Philips Components (3200 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/570- 5630, Fax: 408/570-5830) announced a breakthrough low power color TFT-LCD technology for mobile phone applications....

Touchscreen for Semicon Fabs.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Planar Systems, Inc. (1400 NW Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100, Fax: 503/690-1493) says that Asyst Technologies, Inc. has chosen a flat panel, color, touchscreen monitor as the human interface for the latest Asyst Substrate...

Line-Of-Sight Anti-Tank Display.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... L-3 Communications (600 Third Ave., New York City, NY 10016; Tel: 212/697-1111) says that its Display Systems Division has been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control to provide the display systems for the...

Low Power Color Display.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Mitsubishi Electric (Tokyo, Japan; Tel: 81-3-32182346) developed a reflective type of miniature TFT color display for moving images in mobile phones and PDAs. Using Mitsubishi's proprietary semiconductor technology, the product uses low...

PLASMA PANELS: NEC has 61-in. Monitor Prototype.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... NEC (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) unveiled the results of its product development efforts to deliver the industry's first 61-in. XGA resolution plasma monitors at the National Association of Broadcaster's...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS Customer Wins for PixTech.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... PixTech, Inc. (3350 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 408/986-8868, Fax: 408/986-9896) announced continued penetration of its FEDs in the medical and instrumentation markets. The company has two new design wins for the first quarter of...

PixTech Demos 7-in. Color FED.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... PixTech also says it successfully demonstrated its 7-in. color FED at the USDC Investor Conference in New York. Dieter Mezger, president and CEO, says, "The public demonstration of the 7-in. color display is a significant milestone for...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Driver Solution for OLEDs.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2001... Clare, Inc. (78 Cherry Hill Dr., Beverly, MA 01915; Tel: 978/524- 6700, Fax: 978/524-4700), a leader in high performance mixed signal integrated circuits, custom ASICs and optically isolated solid state relays, announced the first commercially...

Kodak Licenses Technology to Rohm.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Eastman Kodak Co. (State St., Rochester, NY 14650; Tel: 716/588- 7612) has licensed its organic light emitting diode technology to Rohm Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, for use in passive matrix flat panel display applications. OLED technology,...

DuPont Invests in Poly Plant.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... As part of an aggressive campaign to become a major player in the display industry, DuPont Displays (Box 80352, Wilmington, DE 19880; Tel: 302/695-1258, Fax: 302/695-4635), a business unit of DuPont, announced it has committed $15 million to...

UDC, Sony Team on Big Monitors.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Universal Display Corp. (UDC, 375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618; Tel: 800/599-4426) and Sony Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) have announced a joint development agreement for high efficiency active matrix, organic LED display devices for use in large area...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT: Canada Invests in iFire Technology.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2001... iFire Technology, Inc. (15 City View Dr., Toronto, Canada M9W 5A5; Tel: 416/246-1030, Fax: 416/246-0459), a subsidiary of The Westaim Corp., says it received a $30 million investment for research and development from the government of Canada....

Luxell Deals with Philips, CDT.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Luxell Technologies (5170A Timberlea Blvd., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 2S5; Tel: 905/206-1708, Fax: 905/206-9174) says it has reached Technology Evaluation Agreements with Philips Components B.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and...

MICRODISPLAYS: Swedish Army Gets CyberDisplay.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958) says it received a production order for its industrial grade CyberDisplay 640M subsystem from SaabTech Electronics of Lidingo, Sweden. Kopin says...

Neurological "Cockpit" for Surgeons.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Colorado Microdisplay (2477 55th St., Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/546-9700, Fax: 303/546-9800) has been selected by Carl Zeiss to provide microdisplays for use in Zeiss's OPMI Neuro MultiVision, a microscope that is a breakthrough method for...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: First Progressive Scan Projector.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2001... Hitachi America, Ltd. (2000 Sierra Point Pkwy., Brisbane, CA 94005; Tel: 650/589-8300, Fax: 650/583-4201) announced production of the industry's first LCD projectors featuring progressive scan technology. Hitachi's CP-X980W and CP-X985W LCD...

Micro-Portable XGA LCD Projector.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2001... Hitachi also broke into the micro-portable market with its first XGA projector. Weighing just 5 lbs., the Hitachi CP-X270W with XGA resolution provides a sharper, more vivid image than standard SVGA projectors. And it offers mobile users a...

PROCESS NEWS: Cheaper Method of Making OLEDs.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Tel: 3- 5225-8220, Fax: 3-3266-2129) says it has developed a faster, cheaper process to make organic electroluminescent (OEL) flat panel displays. A spokesperson for the company, one of...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Planar's Sells Through CDW.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Planar Systems, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) says that its flat panel desktop monitors are available through CDW Computer Centers, Inc. Planar's line of desktop monitors is now available from nine of the top computer equipment providers. Balaji...

Flat Panel for Under $500.(Product Information)
May 1, 2001... Dell Computers (Austin, TX) said it is offering 15-in. flat panel monitors for $499 when purchased with a Dell Optiplex desktop or Precision workstation system. This new, lower price is the result of Dell carrying only five days of inventory...

Planar Reports Record Sales.(Company Financial Information)
May 1, 2001... Planar Systems, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) announced record sales for the second quarter, ended March 31, 2001. Sales in the quarter reached $54.5 million, a 30% increase over the $42 million reported for the same period a year ago. Net income of...

NEC Outsources TFT Panels.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... NEC Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) says it has agreed with Taiwan's Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. to outsource production of TFT liquid crystal display panels for personal computers. The move is the latest in a series of efforts by NEC to streamline...

Kodak, Sanyo Cross License.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announced a mutual agreement to cross license patents that is designed to expand the market in digital photography. Under the terms of the agreement, Sanyo...

Electrograph to Resell Philips Displays.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2001... Electrograph Systems (Atlanta, GA), a leading value added distributor of display products, has agreed to distribute Philips Consumer Electronics North America's new line of eBright projectors and other Philips projectors, televisions and...

MEETINGS: Organic Light Emissive Devices 2001.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2001... Intertech Conferences announced that its third international flat panel display conference, Organic Light Emissive Devices 2001, will be held on November 14-16, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Islandia Hotel in San Diego, California, and will be...

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY STOCK WATCH.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2001... Just two of our fourteen stocks were in the minus column as April closed out and it looks as though the market slide has halted, at least temporarily. The huge losses that appeared in last month's column were devastating and we were not sure...

CALENDAR.(Calendar of Events)
May 1, 2001... April 23-28, 2001. Microtechnology (at Hanover Fair), Hannover, Germany. Contact: www.hannovermesse.de. April 30-May 3, 2001. International Reliability Physics Symposium, IEEE, Orlando, FL. Contact: www.irps.org. June 3-8, 2001....