Display Development News articles from October 2003

Display Development News archives from October 2003

MARKET ANALYSIS: Display Materials Forecast to Grow.
October 1, 2003... BCC just released a Repor, Major Display Materials: Markets, Technologies, which projects overall growth of 10.8% from 2003 to 2008 for all display materials. Flat panel materials are forecast for a 16.9% growth over this time period. ...

Digital Multimedia Expands to Households.
October 1, 2003... The Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) Expo, held in Indianapolis in early September, was the scene of many display products that now have the capacity to bring multimedia in digital format to consumers in their own...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS SoC Engine Provides Connectivity.
October 1, 2003... Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam 1096, The Netherlands; Tel: 877/248-4273) announced the launch of its newest Nexperia Home Entertainment Engine, the PNX8550, an SoC (System-on-Chip) for hybrid digital televisions and home entertainment...

Major TV Signals from the Backseat.
October 1, 2003... We have a second story from Royal Philips of the Netherlands that involves the latest addition to its product line geared toward mobile entertainment applications-one that guarantees a lot more flexibility. Featuring a new PAL/NTSC auto-detect...

22-inch LCDs Target TV, Multimedia.
October 1, 2003... Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (D15827, Berlin, Germany; Tel: 49- (0)-3379-340-0) introduced two 22-inch high definition, full color active matrix TFT-LCD displays for PC multimedia and television applications. A new robust structure makes the...

Reliable STN for Auto Instruments.
October 1, 2003... Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (Box 218, 5600 MD, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Tel: 31-40-27-84986, Fax: 31-40-27- 82134) introduced its second-generation super-twisted (STN) negative display technology, ASTN 2+, which targets the...

Microchip Gives LCD TV Cinema Quality.
October 1, 2003... Genesis Microchip, Inc. (2150 Gold St., Alviso, CA 95002; Tel: 408/262-6599, Fax: 408/262-6365) said that Sharp Electronics Corp., a leader in the LCD TV market, selected Genesis' FLI2310 digital video format converter for use in its new...

PLASMA PANELS: Highest Brightness In the World?
October 1, 2003... Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display, Ltd. (FHP, Frankfurt, Germany; Tel: 49-6103-690) introduced the A1 range of 42-, 37-, and 32-inch PDPs and announced the development of a 55-inch HDTV plasma panel. The new 55-inch WXGA plasma display is the...

Expanding Plasma Market.
October 1, 2003... Digital technology is increasingly adopted in household devices in the age of broadband, exemplified by such developments as digital broadcasts, DVDs, CATV, and the Internet. Anticipating that PDPs represent the next generation of wide screen...

Plasma Model Has HDMI Capability.
October 1, 2003... As discussed in our market analysis section, high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) is expanding markets for displays. Pioneers Electronics USA (2265 220th St., Long Beach, CA 90810; Tel: 310/952-2111, Fax: 310/952-2990) said it added HDMI...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS LEDs Produce Brilliant Color.
October 1, 2003... Osram Opto Semiconductors (Regensburg, Germany; Tel: 49-941-202- 1693, and San Jose, CA; Tel: 408/456-4193) has 6-lead MultiLEDs that provide bright and uniform backlighting for 17-inch displays. These LEDs create a better color brilliance than...

MICRODISPLAYS: U.S. Army to Use Nomad System.
October 1, 2003... Microvision, Inc. (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415-6657), a leader in light scanning technologies, announced an order from the Program Executive Office-Soldier within the U.S. Army for 100 units of a modified version of...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS Canon Delivers Big Picture.
October 1, 2003... Canon (One Canon Plaza, Lake Success, NY 11042; Tel: 516/328-5000) has a new line of LCD projectors that displays presentations with a punch-and throw that punch from a mere 8.2 feet away from a screen, a wall, or virtually any other selected...

Thin Projector for Cramped Spaces.
October 1, 2003... Turn it sideways, and it almost disappears-but look head on and the image fills a room. InFocus Corp. (27700B SW Pkwy., Wilsonville, OR 97070; Tel: 503/685-8888, Fax: 503/685-8887) has extended its expertise in providing the highest image...

Widescreen Display For The Coffee Table.
October 1, 2003... Epson America, Inc. (3840 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806; Tel: 562/981-3840, Fax: 562/290-5220) continues to expand its presence in the home theater market with its PowerLite Home 10. The company is actually entering a new market...

MATERIALS: Integrated Audio Output on LCD Display.
October 1, 2003... Sharp Corp. (Osaka, Japan) has developed an LCD panel speaker in which the visual display and audio output functions are combined using a System LCD with an embedded audio circuit. By eliminating the need for an external speaker, this product...

XThin LEDs Will Provide Backlights.
October 1, 2003... Cree, Inc. (4600 Silicon Dr., Durham, NC 27703; Tel: 919/313-5300, Fax: 919/313-5452) said it had begun volume production of its new next generation of solid state LED emitters that combine highly efficient Group III nitride materials with...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: You Can "Write" on This Mobile Display.
October 1, 2003... Acer America Corp. (2641 Orchard Pkwy., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/432-6200, Fax: 408/922-2933) changed the landscape of mobile computing with its TravelMate 250PE. Featuring natural pen-input functionality, which lets users write directly...

Floating Frame Accommodates All.
October 1, 2003... Sony Corp. (16450 W. Bernardo Dr., San Diego, CA 92037; Fax: 858/942-2674) has the latest addition to its floating frame consumer LCD line with emphasis on panel performance and features for the ultimate multimedia experience. The new 17-inch...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Display Wins Quality Award.
October 1, 2003... Universal Display Corp. (UDC, Ewing, NJ) said the company recently received a 2003 Army SBIR Phase II Quality Award at a ceremony at the Pentagon, in Washington, D.C., for their Army project entitled "Transparent Organic Phosphorescent...

Providential Holdings Finds Chinese Partner.
October 1, 2003... Providential Holdings, Inc. (Fountain Valley, CA) said it signed a letter of intent to cooperate with Xoceco, a public company in China with annual sales of $460 million and 6,000 employees, in a number of business initiatives that are expected...

Avnet, Philips Market Flat Panels.
October 1, 2003... Avnet Applied Computing Solutions (Phoenix, AZ), a division of Avnet, Inc., announced a distribution agreement with L.G. Philips LCD, a leading innovator of thin-film transistor liquid crystal technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Avnet...

Industry Production, Shipment Record.
October 1, 2003... L.G. Philips LCD Co., Ltd., one of the world's leading innovators of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) technology, said it reached a major milestone with a new monthly production and shipment record of two million "large"...

Stocks Up 3% at End of Quarter.
October 1, 2003... Seven of our 14 display-related stocks were in the plus column for the month ending September 30th, as the broad industrial markets rose 3.2% for the quarter. They were down from last month, however, as concerns about the overall economy...

CALENDAR.
October 1, 2003... November 16-20, 2003. IMAPS 2003, Boston, MA. Contact: Ann Bell, International Microelectronics and Packaging Society; Tel: 202/548-8717, Fax: 202/548-6115; Email: abell@imaps.org November 19-21, 2003. OLEDs 2003 Fifth Annual Conf., San...