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2008 EVENING PANEL
DISCUSSION
May 20, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Los Angeles, California USA
Evening Panel Chair
Roger Stewart, Sourland Mountain Associates, Hillsborough, NJ, USA
AMLCD World Domination:
Does Anything Stand in the Way?
Since its invention 80 years ago, the
cathode ray tube ("CRT") completely dominated the
high-information-content display industry for 60 years with a 99% market
share. However, during the past 20 years, numerous display technologies --
LCDs, OLEDs, plasma, and DLP -- have taken market share away from the CRT.
But have AMLCDs now become so successful that they threaten to displace
all other display technologies and return us to the days when one
technology again controls 99% of the display market?
Arguments for AMLCD world domination
include its 84B$ market size; the huge investments in Gen-8 and higher
fabs; and the pace at which AMLCD deficiencies are being fixed. IPS, VA
and other new LCD modes have recently solved the AMLCD viewing angle
problem, 120/sec frame rates are solving the motion blur problem, and LED
backlights are providing color gamuts of over 100% with contrast ratios of
over 100,000:1. What can plasma, OLEDs, DLP, or any new technology offer
to compete against this juggernaut?
Arguments against AMLCD world domination
include the need for better energy efficiency than is achieved in today's
power-hungry AMLCDs; the need to reduce cost by eliminating the
multi-billion-dollar AMLCD fabs; and the need to reduce image blur and
latency even more than has been possible with AMLCDs.
Our panel of AMLCD, plasma, OLED,
Projection, and plastic Reflective Display experts will discuss the
prospects for the survival of their respective technologies.
Panel:
| Moderator |
Roger Stewart |
Sourland Mountain Associates |
USA |
| AMLCD |
Jun Souk |
Samsung |
Korea |
|
Fan Luo |
AUO |
Taiwan |
|
Norbert Fruehauf |
University of Stuttgart |
Germany |
| Plasma |
Larry Weber |
Consultant |
USA |
| Projection |
Fred Kahn |
Kahn Consulting |
USA |
| AMOLED |
Mike Hack |
Universal Display Corporation |
USA |
|
Nobutoshi Asai |
Sony Corporation |
Japan |
| Flex Reflective |
Stuart Evans |
PlasticLogic |
UK |
