Back in September 7, 2005, LPL announced that it plans to build a LCD module production plant in Wroclaw, Poland. LPL is the first to announce such a production factory in Europe. LPL planned an initial capacity of 3 million modules per year with an investment of 429 million euros by 2011. By 2011, the [...]

FHP started off in 1999 as a 50:50 joint venture between Fujitsu and Hitachi to manufacture plasma display panels (PDPs). Now, Hitachi announced that it will absorb the development, procurement and administrative operations from FHP. With giants in the LCD side of the camp such as LG.Philips LCD, Samsung, Sharp and AUO, Hitachi needs to [...]

Optoma has a 100" 1080p DLP you can install right into your wall. The HDBV3100 will cost $20,000 and you will need to get a separate custom installer to transform your wall from off-white to great color! Considering 100" was reached by LCD and plasma only recently and sell for many multiples, I think Optoma's [...]

On June 14, LPL held a groundbreaking ceremony for a LCD module factory in Wroclaw, Poland. Mass production is scheduled to commence in March 2007 with an initial capacity of producing 3 million modules per year. By 2011, annual capacity will increase to 11 million modules. LPL chose Poland for high quality labor, good financial [...]

Aggressive announcement by CMO's Kuo. That's a lot of LCD monitor panels when so far there hasn't been an announcement by any monitor manufacturer for a 22" wide version. CMO is already shipping 500K 19" wide LCD monitors that sport 1440 x 900 pixels. A weird resolution, but a resolution that brings the cost down [...]

2ms is getting to be very quick indeed! The 2ms response time is the average time it takes for LCs to response to 256 x 256 levels of gray. The panel has a 160-degree viewing angle and a 800:1 contrast ratio. Guessing from the limited viewing angle, this is a TN panel. AUO claims that [...]

Asahi shut down a 250K m2 power plant site in 2003 and is in the process of finding ways to use that site to expand its glass capacity. Asahi will need to lease the land from Kansai Electric if the company decides to go foward with expansion plans. It takes roughly 6 months to go [...]

Chipbond and IST are driver IC packaging companies. Driver ICs go into LCD panels and control the thin-film-transistors (TFT) that control the currents that control the liquid crystals (LCs) that control light that control what you see in front of your screen. Boy, that was a mouth-full. These two companies are expecting slow Q2 sales [...]

Facts: The company claims its 7.1' e-paper with 1536 x 2048 pixels is the world's highest resolution and approximates an A6-sized paper (105mm x 14mm). Flexible memory chips are used and is incorporated into the plastic substrate, enabling the screen to bend. The screen has E-Ink technology.
Opinion: The only value-add that flexibility adds to displays [...]

Facts: On June 13, a day before FPD Taiwan 2006, AUO announced that it will focus much of its energies on improving LCD TV performance. There are four key technologies that AUO will be focusing on: AMVA, SPD, HiColor and Image Processing Technology.
AMVA stands for Advanced Multi-domain Vertical Alignment. Samsung has theirs and it is [...]