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Court
Issues Final Order In Favor of Silicon Image
Sunnyvale,
California, December 23 (PRNewswire-FirstCall) - Silicon
Image announced today that the Federal District Court in
Richmond, Virginia has issued a ruling holding Genesis
Microchip in civil contempt for violating the Court's
protective order and ordering Genesis to pay the reasonable
attorneys' fees and costs associated with the motion that
resulted in the ruling. In addition, the Court issued a
final judgment order enforcing the terms of its opinion
issued on July 15, 2003, in the case between Silicon Image
and Genesis Microchip, Inc. that the Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) signed by Silicon Image and Genesis
Microchip on December 18, 2002 settled the patent lawsuit
brought by Silicon Image against Genesis. On July 15, 2003,
the Court had ruled that Silicon Image's interpretation of
the MOU was correct and that Genesis must pay Silicon Image
the specified royalties on all its DVI and HDMI products.
Dr. David
Lee, Silicon Image's chairman and CEO, commented, "We
are very pleased that the Court has once again supported
Silicon Image's position on the interpretation of the MOU
and upheld Silicon Image's intellectual property rights. We
hope that we can all finally put this process to rest, and
that both companies can fully direct their focus to
supporting their customers' requirements."
Information: www.siliconimage.com.
iFire
Produces 34-inch Color Inorganic EL Display
Toronto,
Canada, December 17 - iFire Technology Inc., a subsidiary of
The Westaim Corporation, today announced that it has
successfully scaled its flat-panel display from 17 inches to
34 inches.). The 34-inch color prototype display, which uses
the company's proprietary thick-film dielectric technology (TDEL),
has a native HDTV format of 1280 by 768 pixels. It is the
largest flat panel ever produced using inorganic
electroluminescent technology, the company said.
iFire's
original plan called for the achievement of a monochrome
display by year end, but process advances, including the
company's single-phosphor Color-by-Blue™ method, resulted
in a color display ahead of schedule. Work started on the
34-inch panel in October 2003 when larger tools capable of
processing 34-inch panels were installed in iFire's
facility.
"More
than tripling the size of a working flat panel prototype
from 17 inches to 34 inches in only three months is
unprecedented and is a testament to the simplicity of the
technology and the value of the joint development work that
has been done with our partners Dai Nippon Printing Co.,
Ltd. and SANYO Electric," said Anthony B. Johnston,
President of iFire Technology. "Together, we have
produced a large-size, direct-view display that we expect to
be the first flat-panel technology to provide high
performance at a consumer price."
The 34-inch
display is fabricated using low-cost processes that are
expected to be directly transferred to commercial
production. The first several steps in the fabrication,
referred to as the front-end process, are completed by
iFire's joint development partner, Dai Nippon Printing, at
its primary production line in Kashiwa, Japan. The panels
are then shipped to iFire's facility in Toronto, Canada,
where the remainder of the fabrication steps, referred to as
the back-end processes, are completed, including the
electronics assembly steps.
The first
prototypes have been made on a partially completed toolset
using manual handling and operation. Over the next six
months, iFire expects to complete the installation of the
remaining prototype tools and focus on optimizing processes
to improve performance and reduce defects.
iFire expects
to publicly unveil a full-color 34-inch prototype at the
2004 Society for Information Display conference and
technical symposium, to be held in Seattle, Washington, May
23-28.
iFire
recently commissioned an independent study to compare its
manufacturing model against both Liquid Crystal Display
(LCD) and Plasma Display Panel (PDP) in a Generation 6
manufacturing facility. iFire hired a highly respected
engineering firm that engineers and designs Generation 6 LCD
production facilities in Asia. This detailed study suggests
that iFire will have an estimated 50 per cent cost advantage
in both capital and module costs versus mid-30 inch LCD TVs
in a mature manufacturing environment, the company said.
Information: www.ifire.com.
Benson and
Bardsley Join DisplaySearch
Austin,
Texas, December 8 - DisplaySearch today announced that the
company has hired Jerry S. Benson, Jr., former President of
NEC Technologies, to the position of Vice President, Sales
and Marketing; and that J. Norman Bardsley has joined the
firm as Director of Display Technology.
Benson has
over 20 years of high-technology industry experience,
including 10 years with NEC Corporation, where he
established and expanded the company's MultiSync® monitor
business, attaining the position of President and Chief
Operating Officer for NEC's business in the Americas. Mr.
Benson also founded the Video Electronics Standards
Association (VESA).
Bardsley has
been the Director of Roadmaps and Standards at the U. S.
Display Consortium (USDC) for the past seven years. In this
capacity, he has been responsible for monitoring trends,
identifying technical challenges, and uncovering business
opportunities in the manufacture and application of
electronic display technology. Prior to joining the USDC,
Bardsley was Strategic Business Development Manager in the
Information Technology Division of the Physics Directorate
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Bardsley will
continue his relationship with the USDC.
Benson will
be responsible for enhancing DisplaySearch's high rate of
growth in sales of the company's expanding suite of market
research reports, custom research projects, and consulting
services. In addition to augmenting business to customers in
new and emerging market spaces and geographies, he will
manage the development and marketing of the growing range of
industry conferences that the company produces around the
globe. Bardsley will apply his considerable experience and
expertise in display technology by managing and contributing
to a number of the firm's most influential reports -
including reports that focus on technological advancements,
developments in materials, and reports that concentrate on
specific display technologies.
Information: www.displaysearch.com.
LG.P LCD's
New Nanjing Plant Produces Millionth Module
SEOUL, South
Korea, December 10 (PRNewswire) - LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd
today announced that it has recently set two new production
and sales records. The company has produced the
one-millionth TFT-LCD module at its newly opened Nanjing,
China module plant -- more than any other TFT-LCD
manufacturer in this burgeoning region. In addition, the
company surpassed the 10 million sales mark for its TFT-LCDs
for desktop monitors within an 11-month period - a new
milestone for sales in a single production category.
The Nanjing
plant has achieved a module yield rate of more than 99
percent since it began operations last May. The plant
currently produces TFT-LCDs for desktop monitors, with plans
to add TFT-LCDs for TVs and notebook PCs late next year.
Information: www.lgphilips-lcd.com.
