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SID
2001: Last-Minute Updates and Factoids as of 5/18/01
Come
to SID and see the first commercial LCD monitor with 3200x2400
pixels; learn why less is more in new-gen PDPs; see the world's
largest OLED; learn about Intel's designs for display products;
learn about accelerating microdisplay commercialization; and see
the first Taiwanese PDP to be
shown
in the U.S.
SID 2001
- The Society for Information Display's International
Conference, Symposium, and Exhibition - will be held June 3 -
8 at the San Jose Convention Center (SJCC), San Jose,
California. The Fairmont San Jose, a block and a half
from the SJCC, is the headquarters hotel.
At this writing,
the Fairmont and other major downtown hotels are reportedly
booked. Try the hotels by the San Jose Airport - about a
ten-minute cab ride from the SJCC.
The Press
Rooms are Rooms B1 and B2 in the SJCC. There will be
fax/printer and phone service, and we will have a computer
connected to the Internet for downloads of exhibitor data
sheets, restaurant menus, and crossword puzzles. The Press Room
will be open Monday through Wednesday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, and
Thursday 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. Press Relations Specialist Dawn
Ruehle will once again be taking care of you and the Press
Rooms. Pick up your press credentials at the press registration
booth in the registration area.
The annual Press
Breakfast will be held Tuesday, June 5, in the
Garden Room at the Fairmont at 7:30 am,
just prior to the Keynote Session and the opening of the
exhibits. We will feed you very well (which is why we're
doing this at the Fairmont instead of the SJCC); provide a brief
overview of current display issues by Ken Werner (Nutmeg
Consultants) and David Mentley (Stanford Resources); present a
brief guide to events, product introductions, and hot
stories; and let you fire questions at our tableful of
industry experts (including keynote speaker Yoshito Tsunoda,
architect of Fujitsu-Hitachi Plasma Display's strategy of
increasing the sales volume of PDPs to consumers by making
smaller PDPs that still produce high-definition images).
The Press
Breakfast will conclude in time for all of us to make the very
short walk to the San Jose Civic Auditorium - which is just
across San Carlos Street from the SJCC - for the Keynote
Session at 9:00 am. The keynote speakers are Dr. Tsunoda,
Executive VP of FHP (see above) and Claude Leglise, VP of
Intel's New Business Group (Santa Clara) and GM of the Home
Products Group. Tsunoda will outline FHP's plasma strategy in ALIS
PDP - Key Device for a Digital Wonderland in the 21st Century.
In It's All About the Eyeballs, Leglise will discuss
Intel's role in developing emerging markets for display
technology and his company's development of Intel-branded
Internet appliances.
The SID/Information
Display Sixth Annual Display of the Year Awards (DYA)
will be presented
at the SID
Annual Luncheon at 12 noon on Wednesday in the Regency
Ballroom at the Fairmont. Senior executives from eMagin,
InViso, DigiLens, Ise Electronics, Sharp and SEL, and
Toppan
will be there to accept their awards. Press get in free.
The fourth annual
Display Technology Showcase (DTS) will feature
side-by-side comparisons of displays representing a wide variety
of technologies. Within each of several categories, the same
images and test patterns will be shown on all displays at the
same time. See the first commercial 3200x2400 LCD monitor, a
37-inch tiled LCD monitor, the first Taiwanese plasma display to
be seen in North America, and new small active-matrix LCDs for
cell phones and PDAs. Compare the latest microdisplays, and
compare state-of-the art plasma displays and LCDs. Among the DTS
participants are Acer Display, Christie Digital, Colorado
Microdisplay, Epson, ESTO, Hynix, Liesegang, MicroOptical Corp.,
Plasmaco/Matsushita, Rainbow Displays, Sage, Samsung, and Toshiba/U.S.
Electronics.
LCOS
microdisplays started to roll out in a variety of products last
year, but the ramp-up for this high-impact technology has been
slower than anticipated. This year's Microdisplay Roundtable
will focus on how individual companies are working to
commercialize new applications and products, and what
microdisplay companies are doing to see their products included
in new OEM designs. Don't miss this sixth annual edition of the
unique SID press and analyst event that established
microdisplays as a coherent industry segment. This multi-vendor
event, hosted by Displaytech, will be held 10 - 12:00
am Wednesday in Press Room B2. Earlier on Wednesday,
at 8:30 am, DuPont Displays will host a Press
Breakfast in Press Room B1 to discuss its aggressive
international OLED manufacturing initiatives.
On Tuesday,
Colorado Microdisplay will host a Press Luncheon in
the Press Room at 12:45 to make a major corporate
announcement.
Two blocks of
15-minute press conferences will be held in the Press
Room on Tuesday from 10:45 am to 12:45 pm and
from 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm. Dawn Ruhle (the Enforcer) will
make sure the conferences run on schedule like a Swiss train.
The presenting companies are E Ink, TLC International,
DisplaySearch, Cambridge Display Technology, Monolithic Power
Systems, MOXTEK, Philips Components, iFire, ColorLink, Three
Five Systems, Actuality Systems, JPA Electronics Supply, and
Tannas Electronic Displays. A full and updated schedule will be
presented at the Tuesday Press Breakfast, and will be available
in the press room.
If you're around
on Monday, don't forget the gala SID President's
Reception in the Fairmont Hotel's Regency II Ballroom
at 6:00 pm.
If you remember
stoking up on free food Tuesday evening on the show floor,
forget about it. The Exhibitors' Reception is no more. As a
result, the Evening Panel Discussions have been moved up
to the more rational time of 6:00 pm on Tuesday.
The two topics are "Low-cost Flat-panel Displays: Paths,
Shortcuts, and Dead Ends" and "What Must the
U.S. Government Do to Assure the Military's Flat-panel-display
Needs?". The two topics are important ones. Lowering
the cost of flat panels is crucial to the expansion of the
display industry and the ways consumers can benefit from
displays, and DoD's display procurement program has stumbled
from one crisis to another for years. At least some of the
people on both panels are known for being iconoclasts, so there
is hope for two lively, insightful, and perhaps even newsworthy
discussions.
The exhibits
at SID 2001 will once again be the largest ever, with 291
exhibitors occupying 500 booths - up from approximately 240
exhibitors and 440 booths last year. Here are a few examples.
Toshiba
will show its 20.8-inch LCD panel with a staggering 3200x2400
pixels. A monitor based on the panel, which is made by
Totoku and distributed in the U.S. by U.S. Electronics, will be
shown in the Toshiba booth and in the Display Technology
Showcase (DTS). This is the world's first commercially available
QUXGA (nearly 8-megapixel) LCD monitor. Toshiba - known as the
LTPS market leader - will also announce its new family of
amorphous_silicon, high_brightness LCDs.
Sony will
show its new 13-inch, SVGA, full-color, active-matrix organic EL
(OEL, or OLED) prototype - the world's largest OLED
display. Sony plans to commercialize 20- to 30-inch OLED TV
receivers by 2003. Also in the Sony booth will be 5- and 13-inch
FEDs from partner Candescent.
At a time when
some LCD panels are selling for less than the cost of making
them, canny LCD makers are looking for a link in the supply
chain that has more - or at least some - margin. Samsung
and Sharp are now using their own panels to make their
own monitors, and Sharp will be exhibiting its "All
in One," which integrates a TFT-LCD panel, video decoder,
graphic engine, controller, and inverter to drive the backlight.
The customer only has to hook up a power supply, put the module
in a plastic housing, and supply an input signal. Sharp will be
showing its 15- and 16-inch versions. Sharp will also discuss
its new ASV/LCD technology that - for the first time ever, Sharp
says - completely eliminates bright pixel defects resulting from
non-functioning transistors.
Actuality
Systems will demonstrate its new volumetric 3D display
prototype that creates volume-filling images with 100 million
color voxels - 10 times that of other volumetric displays. The
prototype is compatible with many off-the-shelf applications for
pharmaceutical design and mechanical CAD.
Tannas
Electronic Displays will be explaining its newly patented
technique for taking a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) LCD,
physically cutting it to a new size, and resealing it with
little or no change in its original performance. If the approach
proves to be practical, it could be a boon to display
integrators working on military, avionics, vehicular, and
industrial applications, where shapes and sizes are often very
different from standard mass-production displays.
Glass-cutting is
a major issue in the manufacturing of flat-panel displays.
Nearly all commercial displays are separated by the venerable
scribe-and-break technique. It's fast, cheap, and efficient, but
traditionally only breaks glass in straight lines. TLC
International will be demonstrating its Phoenix-600®, which
quickly scribes curved shapes as well as rectilinear parts.
That leaves
another 284 exhibitors for you to explore on your own,
but we'll give you some additional tips at the Tuesday morning
Press Breakfast.
If there are any editors
who are coming to SID 2001 but have not yet arranged for their complimentary
press registrations, call Dian Mecca now.
For SID
2001 registration and hotel information, call Mark Goldfarb,
Palisades Institute for Research Services, 411 Lafayette Street,
2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003. Tel: (212) 460-8090, ext. 202;
Fax: (212) 460-5460; email mgoldfarb@pcm411.com.
The Society
for Information Display is an international society devoted to
the advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and
applications, with headquarters at 610 South 2nd Street, San
Jose, California 95112. Tel: (408) 977-1013; email office@sid.org;
website www.sid.org.
