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Flat-panel Prices Drop As Popularity Rises
News LCD supplies increased throughout the second half of last year, as manufacturers -- particularly Korean companies such as Samsung and LG -- aggressively built new fabs capable of manufacturing larger, cheaper LCDs, iSuppli said.
[April 3, 2003, 16:19]
Electronics Giants Join Forces On Flat-panel Displays
News SVA, the largest electronics group in China, is a holding company with interests in product development, manufacturing and sales of household appliances and LCD displays. The forthcoming company, which is thus far unnamed, will plan, develop and...
[March 27, 2003, 8:28]
Samsung Goes Large With 40-inch LCD
News Rival firm LG Philips has announced that it will launch 42- and 52-inch LCD displays later this year, and both Samsung and LG Philips have demonstrated prototype 52-inch LCD displays. Plasma and LCD displays have traditionally occupied different...
[June 9, 2003, 8:36]
LCD Monitor Mimics Origami
News Unlike conventional LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays) displays, the new offerings sport acrylic screens and flexible frames which allow them to be folded. A joint venture between Japanese electronics giants NEC and Mitsubishi has taken mobile computing...
[June 25, 2003, 15:38]
New IBM Tech Sharpens Flat Panels
News IBM has a prototype LCD that may be the future for flat panel displays. Dataquest estimates that 5.8 million desktop LCD panels are expected to ship this year and that number should increase by 15m in 2001.
[July 14, 2000, 12:09]
NEC-Mitsubishi LCD Monitor Prices Cut By A Third
News The cost of a liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor looks set to fall even further after NEC-Mitsubishi Electronic Displays (NMD) announced that it was dropping the cost of its LCD range by up to 30 percent.
[May 9, 2001, 6:35]
New Digital Display Standard Moves Closer
News The Video Electronics Standards Association, or VESA, is currently reviewing a proposal for a newly developed standard that aims to enable more colors, higher resolutions and higher refresh rates, as well as simplify the way computers connect to...
[August 19, 2005, 11:00]
Widescreen Laptops To Take Over The World
News And, LG Philips is also touting its inch LCD displays for laptops, Shim said. How about a massive 19- or 20-inch wide-screen LCD model? The other downside would be a potential glut of LCD panels in 2006,
[October 25, 2005, 10:05]
Compaq Wants LCD Monitors To Be A Common Sight
News Compaq also claims that the volumes it can generate will reduce the very high cost of LCD displays and says it plans to add extra features such as speakers to make the screens more attractive. Compaq is to put its considerable weight behind making...
[January 30, 1997, 10:57]
Samsung Ready To Roll With Organic LEDs
News The screens are self-luminous organic materials and so require a third less power than TFT and LCD screens, which use conventional thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays. Response times are quicker too — according to the company the screens...
[November 22, 2005, 15:45]
Toshiba To Unveil Scanner-like Mobile Screen
News The 14.1-inch SXGA+ liquid crystal display (LCD), with 1,400-by-1,050-pixel resolution, weighs 330 grams, the company said. Toshiba will also showcase a new 12.1-inch WXGA LCD for mobile notebook PCs with wide-format viewing areas.
[May 26, 2004, 10:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And the displays can be produced at very low cost compared to LCD panels. Today, the stuff's in a few gadgets, but you'd never know it wasn't just an LCD. But as the press release says, "At the Plastics Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt, Siemens...
[October 14, 2005, 18:45]
Nuggets: Mini MD From Panasonic
News The player's LCD screen displays two 12 character lines of text. Its remote control comes with its own backlit LCD that displays disc, track title and artist name. Hoping to lure you away from all the lovely MP3 players on the shelves this...
[November 29, 1999, 16:32]
LCD Market 'to Double In Four Years'
News This market includes driver chips, controllers, LCD-TV controllers and digital visual interface chips, usually deployed in liquid-crystal displays larger than 10 inches. The rapid growth in the LCD semiconductor market naturally reflects demand for...
[August 10, 2004, 15:30]
Sony Cranks Up OLED Screen Production
News Sony has been aggressive in investing in display technologies, including OLED and LCD, for use in its consumer electronics devices. The joint venture, ST-LCD, currently produces LCDs. Sony has also entered a joint venture with Samsung on an LCD...
[September 15, 2004, 10:05]
Apple To Ditch CRTs For Flat Panel Monitors
News The larger problem, said Haruki, is twofold: the price gulf between CRT and LCD monitors, and the influx of cheaper-quality, third-party flat-panel displays selling for hundreds less than Apple's flat-panel models of comparable size.
[May 4, 2001, 7:48]
LG Philips Claims Largest Organic LED Display
News Because OLED displays do not need a separate backlight, the power consumption of the finished unit will be lower than that of its LCD counterpart. The company, which manufactures TFT-LCD screens at factories in South Korea, unveiled a prototype...
[October 19, 2004, 17:05]
Samsung Funds Organic Displays
News If feasible, the company said it plans to bring to the market OLED-based displays that are 50 percent lighter and thinner than the LCD screens generally available today. So far, OLED has the broadest support from manufacturers, but analysts believe...
[February 26, 2003, 9:51]
HP Unveils Paper-thin Flexible Screen Technology
News Although similar at heart to current LCD technologies, HP's system has half a million micron-wide pillars per square millimetre of display which force the liquid crystals to stay in whatever position they adopt when pulsed with electricity.
[October 18, 2004, 17:55]
Sony Speeds Development Of Next-gen Mobile Screens
News The joint venture, called ST-LCD, currently produces liquid-crystal display screens. The company expects video applications for portable products, such as digital cameras and mobile phones, to increase, and the ability of OLED screens to consume...
[June 13, 2003, 8:46]
