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eMAGIN Offers World's First Full-Color OLED
Hopewell Junction, New York, April 18-eMagin Corporation today announced that it is accepting orders for its new full-color, active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (OLED) SVGA+ Developer's Kit. The SVGA+ OLED microdisplay, designed for consumer applications, contains more than 1.5 million individually addressable picture elements and exhibits up to 16 million colors.
"eMagin has the first OLED microdisplay available for sale to commercial manufacturers for use as a computer or video display," said Gary Jones, eMagin's CEO and president. "It is essentially the first full-color OLED display available for general sale. This marks an important turning point for eMagin as a company, as we move from the development stage toward production."
The developer's kit, targeted at near-eye video and data applications, will be available to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) designing viewers for mobile information products such as portable computers, wireless Internet viewers, portable DVD players, gaming platforms, and wearable computers. The kit consists of a color SVGA+ microdisplay and associated electronics required for OEMs to build and test new products. Properly interfaced, the display will support either PC or consumer-video applications requiring minimal system power. At the same time, it provides high-resolution, high-speed, flicker-free video that can be coupled with inexpensive optics to create a large field of view with easy-to-view images.
eMagin recently brought into operation the last of its core manufacturing equipment, which provides potential capacity for 50,000 to 100,000 SVGA-class displays per month. The company has already received requests from over 40 OEMs and is seeking potential partners who require high-volume microdisplay production capacity.
The SVGA+ microdisplay has a 0.62-inch-diagonal active screen that is suitable for virtual images similar to the real images of a computer monitor or large TV screen. This display has over 1.5 million potential color subpixel elements (600 x 3 x 852 pixels). The display was dubbed "SVGA Plus" because it has 52 more imaging columns than a standard SVGA display. These added columns make it possible for the display to run either 600 x 800 pixels to interface with the analog output of portable computers or to run 852 x 480 pixels in a 16:9 wide-screen entertainment format. The display contains the majority of the electronics required for connection to the RGB port of a PC imbedded in its silicon IC
backplane.
Information: Customer requests for developer kits should be directed to
www.emagin.com or (408)
567-9700.
NEC to Mass Produce and Ship 61-inch XGA Plasma Monitor by Summer 2001
Itasca, Illinois, March 26 - NEC will unveil the results of a product development effort intended to deliver the industry's first 61-inch XGA plasma monitor at the National Association of Broadcaster's Show, April 23-26, 2001 in Las Vegas. The prototype monitor, the PlasmaSync 61MP1, is planned for mass production during summer 2001, and is anticipated to be the first plasma monitor with a 60-inch-plus screen size to be
mass produced and delivered to the North American market in quantity.
NEC will utilize their production facility in Kagoshima, Japan to manufacture the 61-inch panel. The NEC facility currently contains panel fabrication lines capable of producing 61-inch PDP glass, so no additional manufacturing infrastructure is required to place this panel into mass production. Additionally, key elements of the 61-inch wide-XGA panel - such as 1365 x 768 driver circuitry - are being adapted from NEC's current 50-inch XGA PDP panel technology. This has resulted in shorter development times and will lead to efficiencies in mass production by using proven technology that is readily adaptable to the new glass size.
"One of the driving trends in the plasma industry is the demand for larger screen sizes," said Scott Evans, product marketing manager for the Visual Systems Division at NEC Technologies. "NEC is putting forth a tangible plan to be the first manufacturer to deliver plasma monitors in the 60-plus-inch screen size to the market."
The PlasmaSync 61MP1 will feature a 1365 x 768 wide-XGA
format in a 16:9 aspect-ratio screen. It will also incorporate the Multimedia Presentation (MP) Series features that are standard on NEC's MP Series plasma displays.
Information: www.nectech.com
Samsung Announces First 15-Inch TFT Flat-panel Monitor For Less Than $500
San Jose, California, March 22 - Samsung has announced breakthrough pricing on its new SyncMaster™ 570vTFT - the first 15" flat-panel monitor to be offered in the U.S. by a major manufacturer for under $500. Samsung is offering a $50 introductory rebate on the display that brings the street price down to $499 through June 2001. The 570vTFT has an active-matrix LCD, a native resolution of 1024 x 768, a maximum refresh of 75 Hz, viewing angles of 120°(H)/110°(V), a luminance of 200
cd/m², a contrast ratio of 250:1, and 24-bit color.
Information: Tel: (800) SAMSUNG, www.samsungmonitor.com.
