The issue of whether LEDs will replace cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CFFL) to become the major backlighting source for display products in the short-run has been widely discussed. LED makers and research firms used to...

DigiTimes recently has a chance to talk to Koichi Kubota, general manager of VI Marketing Department, Imaging Products Operations Division from Seiko Epson, to talk about the company's outlook for the projector market in...

DLP (digital light processing) technology leader TI (Texas Instruments) is positive about the outlook of next-generation projector applications such as pocket, instant theater and LED-based front projectors in 2007. DigiTimes...

Microdisplay-driven rear-projection TV, particularly of the liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) variety, has been enjoying a revival of industry interest over the past couple of years. The segment offers the enticing possibility...

Fuji Magnetics, the EMEA (European, Middle East, Africa) headquarter of Fujifilm's recording media division, is perhaps best known in the industry for its line of data media products for data storage and archiving and for...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

The prospect of displays utilizing light-emitting polymers is nothing new. A company such as CDT, for example, has been proposing the inkjet printing of displays based on light-emitting polymers for some time, now. A new...

Japan-based JSR Corporation, a major supplier of color pigment dispersed resists for producing LCD color filters (CFs), recently finished first-stage construction of its new LCD material plant at the Central Taiwan Science-based...

The Cambridge, UK, based CDT is a pioneer of solution-processable polymer materials for OLED displays, and the company advocates all the technical advantages of OLED displays, particularly in comparison with TFT-LCD, coupled...

With Sintek Photronic recently announcing that the company plans to build a 7.5-generation (7.5G) color filter (CF) plant, while dropping its original plan to construct a 6G CF plant, DigiTimes spoke with Sintek chairman...

Start-up Genoa Color Technologies has developed technology that significantly enhances the picture produced by a wide variety of display types, including TFT LCD, front- and rear-projection systems, and color-sequential...

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) was formed following Qualcomm's acquisition of Iridigm Display Corporation in September, 2004. With this acquisition, Qualcomm acquired a technology that unites micro-electro-mechanical...

Projector vendor Optoma, a wholly owned subsidiary of projector manufacturer Coretronic, expects to ship about 50,000 units in the Asia region this year, up from 15,000-20,000 units in 2004. Optoma mainly focuses on Taiwan,...

Beijing Visionox Technology, a China-based company playing a role in the global OLED (organic light-emitting diode) industry, has set up China’s first pilot line for OLED production. Dong-Xu Wang (transliterated from...

Much happened in 2005 for the Taiwan LED industry with companies going through consolidations, a decline in shipments...

Early last month, Philips Polymer Vision, a business unit within Philips Technology Incubator, Royal Philips Electronics, revealed its Concept Readius rollable display at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin,...

Japan-based Seiko Epson is a leading company in imagining technology, robotics, precision machinery and electronics. DigiTimes had chance to interview Toshio Kimura, executive vice president of Seiko Epson, to talk about...

Seiko Epson recently released several new LCD projectors in Taiwan, with one of the models using its newest “D5” panel. DigiTimes had the opportunity to talk with Akira Suzuki, director of LCD Business Development...

Taiwan-based panel makers have begun swinging from losses to profitability, and AU Optronics (AUO) has led the way by already turning profits in the second quarter of this year. However, although other makers such as Chi...

Arima Optoelectronics, under the Arima Group, was founded in September 1998 and now has three business units – the LED, laser-diode (LD) and lighting system divisions. DigiTimes recently had an opportunity to talk...

Following a series of losses since it was established in the 1980s, Brillian recently announced it will be acquiring Syntax Groups, with a subsidiary called Syntax-Brillian being formed. Brillian will continue developing...

Suffering from inventory pressure, TFT LCD polarizer maker Optimax estimates its second quarter revenues will increase only 4% sequentially to NT$5.2 billion. However, the company aims to reduce inventory 33% (to 100 days)...

The leading Taiwan-based LCD driver IC testing and packaging house, ChipMOS Technologies, is confident that the market’s bullish outlook will persist through the end of the year, with average selling prices (ASPs)...

Internet radio, while a bit of a contradiction in terms, is catching on fast. Not surprisingly, devices are now coming into the market that free the listener from constantly being at a seat in front of the PC while enjoying...

Japan-based JSR Corporation, a major supplier of color pigment dispersed resists used for producing color filters (CFs), recently started construction on its new LCD material plant in Central Taiwan Science-based Industrial...