Display Development News articles from September 1999

Display Development News archives from September 1999

Nokia Markets Flat Square CRTs.(cathode ray tube monitors)
September 1, 1999... Nokia Display Products (Irving, TX; Website: www.nokia.com/americas/displays/main.html) announced two cutting-edge CRT monitors for business applications. The 17-in. 447ZA Plus has 160 MHz of bandwidth and a maximum resolution and refresh...

Dell Pushes "Virtually Flat" Trinitron Monitors.
September 1, 1999... Dell Computer Corp. (RoundRock, TX; Tel: 800/388-8542, Website: www.dell.com), the leader in U.S. PC monitor sales, expanded its Dell-branded monitor family with new flat CRT displays based on Sony's FD Trinitron technology. The Trinitron...

17-in. Monitors Becoming Standard.
September 1, 1999... Prices of CRT monitors have continued to demonstrate a steady decline over the past three years. As a result, 17-in. monitors have become the standard for many new systems sold. For most of 1996 and 1997, price reductions for 17-in. monitors...

NEC Selects Genesis Chip.(microchip)
September 1, 1999... Genesis Microchip (Toronto, Canada; Website: www.genesismicrochip.com) designs and produces highly integrated semiconductors for flat panel displays, home theaters, projection systems, video workstation gear and dozens of other applications....

Supply Problems for LCD Screens.(liquid crystal displays)
September 1, 1999... Although demand for notebook PCs is growing at a steady pace, a limited number of LCD makers are involved in screen supply, causing shipping delays across the board. The Asian financial crisis brought a halt to Japanese and Korean investments...

Nokia LCD Has Larger Viewing Area.(liquid crystal display)
September 1, 1999... Nokia Display Products (Irving, TX; Website: www.nokia.com/ americas/ displays/ main.html) introduced the 800 XA LCD designed to meet the needs of today's multimedia environment. This new LCD has an 18.1-in. active viewing area, providing...

TFT Gives Near-Print Reproduction.
September 1, 1999... NEC Corp. (Website: website at www.nec-global.com) has developed a 9.4-in, ultra-high resolution TFT full color display that provides near print or photographic quality reproduction. In addition to the new amorphous silicon TFT LCD, the...

Miro Shows Radius Flat Panel Display.(Miro Displays, Inc.)
September 1, 1999... miro Displays, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) introduced its Radius Artica flat panel display to the publishing community at the Seybold San Francisco Publishing 99 Conference and Expo. Now shipping, the flat panel display provides Macintosh and...

PixTech to Develop FEDs for Military.(field emission displays)
September 1, 1999... PixTech, Inc. (Boise, ID; Website: www.pixtech.com) says it has been awarded a development contract by DARPA to develop 12.1-in. field emission displays (FED) for the U.S. military. Under terms of the contract, PixTech will receive...

Universal to License OLED Technology.(organic light emitting devices)
September 1, 1999... Universal Display Corp. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) executed a letter of intent to license its revolutionary transparent organic light emitting device (TOLED) technology to Canadian flat panel manufacturer Luxell Technologies, Inc. The agreement...

Display Tech Invests in Outdoor Billboards.
September 1, 1999... Display Technologies (Tel: 407/521-7477) also announced that it has purchased all of the outstanding preferred stock of AmeriVision Outdoor, Inc. and has options to purchase all of its outstanding common stock. The preferred stock is...

Stadium Opens with Scoring, Video System.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Daktronics, Inc. (Brookings, SD; Tel: 888/325-8766, Website: www.daktronics.com), a manufacturer of electronics scoreboard and large screen video displays, turned on a new, fully integrated scoring and video system at SAFECO Field, the new...

Planar Gets Army Award.(microdisplays)
September 1, 1999... Planar Systems, Inc. (Beaverton, OR; Website: www.planar.com/micro) says it has been awarded a multi-year development contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM, Fort Monmouth, NJ) to develop a new family of analog...

Medical Monitor Contract to Planar.
September 1, 1999... Planar says it will supply GE Marquette medical systems with medical grade, flat panel color monitors for the solar family of vital signs monitoring instruments. Planar currently provides monochrome electroluminescent displays to GE Marquette...

Three-Five and Mitsui Market in Japan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Three-Five, Inc. (Tempe, AZ; Website: www.three-five.com) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. of Japan (one of the world's largest trading and industrial firms, with 1998 sales of over $135 billion; Website: www.mitsui.co.jp) will conduct marketing,...

VESA Forms Standards Group.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced the creation of a microdisplay committee to address standards needed in microdisplays and products they are used in. The formation of the committee, which held it first meeting in...

VFD Drivers Connect to Auto Instruments.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Three new VFD driver integrated circuits from Cherry Semiconductor Corp. (East Greenwich, RI) reduce cost by eliminating excess circuitry in automotive instrumentation systems where the system microprocessor has sufficient pins to control...

Wearable Display for Industrial Market.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... In a joint presentation with Leica Geosystems AG, at the Coordinate Measurement Systems Committee (CMSC) Conference held last week in Seattle, Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA; Website: www.mvis.com) showed a beta version of a lightweight head...

First Order for "Beta" Display.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Microvision says that a leading surgical and medical products company has signed a contract for the delivery of multiple copies of a lightweight, head-worn display system incorporating the virtual retinal display (VRD) technology. For...

Students to Test Display.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Xybernaut Corp. (Fairfax, VA), the leader in wearable computing, announced the official launching of its university program. This innovative initiative is designed to bring the latest in next-generation computing to premier schools throughout...

Electrohome Projection Bought By Christie, Inc.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Electrohome Projection Systems (Kitchener, Ontario) announced that Christie, Inc. has agreed to acquire the division from Electrohome, Ltd. to create a new force in the market. The ongoing Electrohome, Ltd. will have controlling interests in...

Advanced Ceramics for Substrates.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Cetek Technologies (Poughkeepsie, NY; Tel: 914/452-3510) produces and markets industrial ceramics for structural and electronic applications including aerospace, bioceramics, insulators, and integrated circuit packages. A material company...

Engine Drives Analog/Digital Monitor.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Arithmos, Inc. (2730 San Tomas Expwy., Santa Clara, CA 95051; Tel: 408/982-4490, Website: www.arithmos.com.), a specialty semiconductor company that creates advanced silicon solutions for the flat panel display industry and its markets,...

Software Makes Text Clearer.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) says it plans to ship software that can dramatically improve the readability of text on computer screens. Called "Microsoft Reader," the new program makes digital text appear almost as words printed on paper. The...

Video Tablet Has Pen-based Input.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Mutoh America, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ) a subsidiary of Mutoh Industries, Ltd. (Japan) and a leading manufacturer of pen-based digital input peripherals and interactive flat panel video displays, has launched the MVT-12S video tablet. The new...

Microvision Slumps in Second Quarter.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... For the second quarter, Microvision (Bothell, WA) reported revenue of $1.4 million versus $2.1 million for the same quarter in 1998. For the quarter, the company reported a net loss of $5.3 million, or $0.74/share, compare with a net loss of...

Cree Revenues Up 53%.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... Cree Research, Inc. (Durham, NC; Website: www.cree.com) reported record revenue of $17,698,000 for the fourth quarter of fiscal 1999, a 10% increase, sequentially, and a 53% increase over the $11,548,000 reported in the prior year. Net income...

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY STOCK WATCH.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... Just over half of our 13 stocks ended in the plus column as the market struggles to make sense out of the Federal Reserve's concern over valuations. Interest rates once again dominated the news as Alan Greenspan and company raised them...

Display Tech Completes Stock Financing.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Display Technologies, Inc. (DTEK, Orlando, FL) completed a private sale of 50,000 shares of preferred stock to Raymond James Capital Partners, L.P. and two funds managed by Renaissance Capital for a total of $5,000,000. The preferred shares...

First U.S.-Based TFT LCD Service Center.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Samsung Semiconductors, Inc. (San Jose, CA; Website: www. samsungsemi.com), the leading producer of TFT-LCDs, opened its first U.S.-based service center providing its U.S. customers with local support and fast response time. The company built...

PixTech Secures $15 Million Equity Line.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... PixTech, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA; Website: www.pixtech. corn) says it has secured a $15 million equity-based line of credit with Kingsbridge Capital, Ltd., an institutional investor specializing in equity lines. Under the terms of the line,...

Repeat Order for Micronic.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Micronic Laser Systems AB (Taby, Sweden) has received a repeat order from a major Japanese customer for a laser writer used to produce photomasks for displays. Delivery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1999. Micronic Laser is a...

Alien Gets $10.5 Million.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Alien Technology (Hayward, CA; Tel: 510/783-1800), developer of a low cost, high yield method of manufacturing active matrix flat panel displays called fluidic self-assembly (FSA)--three patents issued, two others allowed and 15 more...