On February 12, Endicott Research Group (ERG), a manufacturer of DC-AC inverters based in Endicott, NY, introduced its new Smart Force family of LED driver solutions for high-bright LEDs used in LCD backlighting applications. The company can provide just the LED driver board or a complete kid that includes the driver board and LED rails. [...]
On February 11, LG.Philips LCD (LPL) announced that it plans to increase the capacity of its G7 fab, called P7 and located in Paju, South Korea, from 90,000 glass substrate per month input capacity to 110,000 by the third quarter of 2007. LPL’s P7 is able to handle glass substrates with a dimension of 1950 [...]
Okyo’s BR-NX10 is a very nice-looking stereo system that sports some very unique features. First, the BR-NX10 has a 80GB hard disk that allows you to rip your CDs. Second, it has a LCD display and an Ethernet port for connecting to the Internet surfing on AnyMusic and purchasing songs online.
It also has a USB [...]
Virgin America will be entering the US market with an Airbus A320, but with an inflight entertainment, more accurately, multimedia computer and service system called RED. The US Dept. of Transportation has not cleared Virgin America for commercial flights just yet, but when it does this A320 will be, in my opinion, the best to [...]
Asus’ U1F is a 11.1″ wide ultra-portable notebook PC that sports a LED backlight to reduce the thickness of the LCD to just 5mm. The entire U1F thickness is just 18mm or 0.7″ and has the thickest part at 1.1″. The U1F has an Intel Core Duo U2400 CPU with an integrated Intel 945GM Express [...]
Asustek announced Vista certification for its 22″ MW221U and 20″ MW201U LCD monitors. The Vista certification means that features such as Windows Sidebar are supported and compatible. Both displays support a native resolution of 1680 x 1050, good for the 20″ MW201U, but a tad bit on the low side for the 22″ MW221U since [...]
Kolin Group Inc. will contract First International Computer Inc. to supply LCD TVs. Kolin plans to deliver 100,000 LCD TVs to the European market with Germany, Britain, and France as main targets. The brand Syntax-Brillian will be tapped in the second half of 2007 to materialize these plans. Kolin shipped a total of 600,000 LCD [...]
Dell has added Sony’s TVs to its online store. I grabbed a banner off of Dell’s site and it is pretty clear: Sony is available. And Dell isn’t stopping there. The company is planning to offer more brands in the future focusing on consumer and small-business markets. This was all made public during Thursday’s (February [...]
Amtran Technology introduced a 60″ plasma display panel (PDP) TV and is expected to ship 1000 units soon. The 60″ PDP TV sports a pixel format of 1366 x 768 (kind of low), a brightness of 1200 nits and a contrast ratio of 7000:1. Amtran’s 60″ also has four HDMI inputs (quite a bit!) and [...]
Ulvac Taiwan Manufacturing (UTMC) and Ultra Clean Precision Technologies (UCPT) are both part of Ulvac, a Japan-based equipment manufacturer. UTMC and UCPT announced on February 8 that their LCD equipment operations commenced. Ulvac decided to expand its investment in Taiwan at the Tainan Science Park by setting up a flat panel display (FPD) equipment manufacturing [...]
