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LCD Monitor Mimics Origami
News A joint venture between Japanese electronics giants NEC and Mitsubishi has taken mobile computing up a notch with two foldable LCD monitors. Unlike conventional LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays) displays, the new offerings sport acrylic screens and...
[June 25, 2003, 15:38]
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]
LCD Parts Shortage Likely In 2005
News Glass substrates used to manufacture large-size thin film transistor LCD panels are likely to be 8 percent to 10 percent short of demand in terms of area, the market research firm said. The shortage of colour filters used in fifth- and sixth...
[April 4, 2005, 10:20]
Massive LCD To Debut At CeBIT
News A 56-inch LCD screen that weighs 30kg will debut at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover this week. Chi Mei Optoelectronics will be showing its 8.3 million pixel V562D1 LCD monitor. The active part of the screen measures 1.24m by 0.7m, and it has a...
[March 6, 2006, 12:55]
Using Cyclone III FPGas For Clearer LCD HDTV Implementation
White Papers The Cyclone III family of FPGAs offers LCD designers the density and feature set to reconfigure these algorithms based on panel size within a standard hardware platform, which can help reduce manufacturing cost and speed time to market.
[April 19, 2007, 0:00]
Flexible LCD Unveiled By Samsung
News Samsung has created a flexible LCD screen that measures 7 inches diagonally, another technology that may one day be used in products such as e-books. The display is functionally similar to the LCD panels used inside TVs and notebooks, but with a...
[November 29, 2005, 8:50]
IBM Sells LCD Patents
News LCD supplier AU Optronics has signed an agreement with IBM to acquire 170 global patents for TFT LCD technology. AU Optronics and IBM also entered into a cross licence agreement about their relative LCD patents, allowing them to share those patents...
[July 4, 2005, 18:35]
Slow And LCD Failed After 15 Months
Member Review The final straw was an LCD failure, so it is now relegated to the desktop with external screen. Good machine on paper (512MB RAM, 2.4GHz processor), but within months took minutes to start up and was running slowly (slower than four-year-old 128MB...
[July 14, 2004, 16:11]
NEC-Mitsubishi LCD Monitor Prices Cut By A Third
News The price gap between CRT and LCD monitors gets narrower 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...
[May 9, 2001, 6:35]
One Year Ago: LCD Price Falls Mean Cheaper Notebooks
News Falls in LCD screen pricing are sending notebook prices south. UK direct seller Rock Computers today slashed the cost of its Virtuoso notebook line. A 166MHz Pentium-based model with 24Mb RAM, 1.8Gb hard drive, 12.1-inch TFT and eight-speed CD-ROM...
[March 27, 1998, 6:00]
LCD Monitor Prices 'to Stabilise In 2003'
News Prices of flat-panel monitors are likely to continue dropping through the first half of 2003, but stabilise by mid-year, according to NEC/Mitsubishi, one of the biggest manufacturers in the UK of LCD monitors.
[December 5, 2002, 9:39]
LCD Screen Shortage Pushes Up Prices
News Capacity now coming online from fifth-generation LCD fabs (fabrication plants) is being sucked up in a perfect storm of panel demand," Alexander wrote. LCD technology allows for much thinner displays than traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) display...
[October 17, 2003, 12:00]
Sunrise Spotlights NEC LCD
News UK distributor Sunrise Electronics is targeting NEC's 13-inch colour LCD at CAD and workstation markets, saying its size and 1280 x 1024 resolution will be a boon to design houses. The catchily-named NL 128102AC20-07 is an active-matrix TFT with an...
[September 11, 1996, 9:37]
News Burst: Big Blue Readies Dazzling LCD Monitor
News On Wednesday it announced a new high-resolution 20.8-inch flat display, whose LCD panel can achieve resolutions of up to 2,048 by 1,536, or 123 pixels per square inch. The display is a breakthrough in technology, offering a much higher density of...
[November 11, 1999, 12:39]
Double-sided LCD Screen Breakthrough Claimed
News Samsung Electronics claims to have created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on both sides of a single small LCD display. Samsung said on Thursday that its double-sided LCD can show two entirely different pictures or sets of...
[January 4, 2007, 14:41]
Compaq Wants LCD Monitors To Be A Common Sight
News Compaq is to put its considerable weight behind making LCD monitors a common sight on UK desktops after signing an agreement with Mitsubishi Electric and its subsidiary Advanced Display Inc. The deal means that Compaq-designed LCD TFT screens will...
[January 30, 1997, 10:57]
LED As Laptop PC LCD Backlight: A Panel Discussion
White Papers This presentation explains the benefits of LED backlight and provides guidelines and requirements for incorporating LED backlight solution into laptop LCD. It also explains compatibility with CCFL based laptop LCD designs and efficiency and thermal...
[November 3, 2006, 23:00]
Comdex UK: Ricoh Camera Has Hi-res, Voice, Flip LCD
News The sleek silver-coloured unit can capture images at resolutions up to 768 x 576, includes a flip-up 1.8-inch LCD screen, and can also store voice memos in the 2Mb RAM it includes as standard. The RDC-2E will ship next month at a list price of £599...
[April 23, 1997, 14:22]
UK's Microvitec Pictures 13.3-inch LCD Monitor
News The product will answer a frequent criticism of LCD monitors that they are difficult to view for groups of users, for example in presentations. The £499+VAT unit is likely to sell on the street at about £500 inc.
[July 30, 1996, 15:09]
Samsung Goes Large With 40-inch LCD
News Korean electronics giant Samsung has launched a massive 40-inch LCD display which will go head-to-head with plasma screens, the traditional kings of the wall-mounted flat-screen world. The Syncmaster 403T TFT LCD is the largest LCD display yet to...
[June 9, 2003, 8:36]
