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Display Industry News Highlights

Sunny Ocean Studios Enables 84-Inch Glasses-Free 3-D Display at Youth Olympic Games in Singapore

Singapore and Jena, Germany; August, 2010. Technology supplier Sunny Ocean Studios has installed a public video wall at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore (August 14-26) that the company claims is the first of its kind. The 84-inch screen displays 3-D sports content without the need for glasses. A total of four displays of this type are being set up during the Youth Games in click here to read the rest of the article.

Avnet Completes Acquisition of Bell Microproducts

Phoenix, AZ; July 2010. Avnet, a leading distributor of electronic components, computer products, and embedded technology, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Bell Microproducts in an all-cash merger for $7.00 per share, which equates to an equity value of approximately $252 million and a transaction value of approximately $631 million assuming a net debt position for Bell Micro of $379 million at face value as of March 31, 2010.

Roy Vallee, Avnet's chairman and chief executive officer, commented, "The acquisition of Bell Micro marks an inflection point in Avnet's history as click here to read the rest of the article.

Prime View International (PVI) is Now E Ink Holdings Incorporated

HSINCHU, Taiwan and CAMBRIDGE, MA; June 18, 2010. Yuan Tai Technologies Inc. has announced today that it has changed the international version of its name from Prime View International (PVI) to E Ink Holdings Incorporated (E Ink). This change was approved at its Annual General Meeting. With this change Yuan Tai Technologies reaffirms its strong commitment to e-paper, an industry that it has helped pioneer for over a decade.

E Ink Holdings Incorporated will offer its e-paper products under the brand name 'E Ink' and its LCD products under the brand name 'Hydis'. With over 20 million electronic paper displays in the field, the company's E Ink-branded e-paper displays are used in applications such as e-books, e-newspapers, e-textbooks, wristwatches, smart cards, shelf labels, battery/memory indicators, click here to read the rest of the article.

In our Printed Publication This Month

July/August 2010 Vol. 26, No. 08
Display Week 2010 Review Issue

Editorial
No-Shows at the Big Show - OLED TVs and Me
By Stephen P. Atwood

Industry News
NEC to Renesas: What's In a Name?
By Jenny Donelan

President's Corner
SID: Onward and Upward in Seattle
By Munisamy Anandan

Display Week 2010 Review: Touch Technology
2010 was a year of incremental improvements and continued strong growth for touch technology.
By Geoff Walker

Display Week 2010 Review: LCDs
Liquid-crystal-display technology continues to dominate.
By Alfred Poor

Display Week 2010 Review and Market Outlook: Can OLED Displays Make the Move from the Mobile Phone to the TV?
Recent announcements of advanced-generation active-matrix OLED production are creating the momentum needed to start the transition to large panels for the TV market, but manufacturing challenges remain in scaling up substrate size and driving down costs. art6 By Paul Semenza
Display Week 2010 Review: Green Technology Environmentally friendly devices, processes, and materials are getting ever more important in the display world.
By Paul Semenza

Display Week 2010 Review: Green Technology
Environmentally friendly devices, processes, and materials are getting ever more important in the display world.
By Jenny Donelan

Display Week 2010 Review: Flex and e-Paper
e-paper technology rebounds with some colorful new possibilities.
By Robert Zehner

Display Week 2010 Review: 3-D
3-D displays go mainstream.
By Alfred Poor

Display Marketplace: Broadcast and Production Embraces 3-D
Content providers and consumer-electronics companies are already behind the move to 3-D. Now, professional broadcast and production vendors are joining in to help provide critical mass.
By Chris Chinnock and Matthew Brennesholtz

Display Technology at the 2010 North American Auto Show
Modern automobiles contain a great deal of electronics, including a significant number of information displays. At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last January, a showcase for the latest in autos and automotive electronics, there was no shortage of great examples of display technology at work.
By Alan Sobel

Intellectual Property Issues at Trade Shows
Trade shows play a vital role in conducting business effectively, but it pays to do the homework first to see how to protect your intellectual property and to avoid conflicts with the intellectual property rights of others.
By Y. Jae Kim

SID News
2011 SID Honors and Awards Nominations

Journal of the SID August Contents

Headlines:

Compal and LG Display Plan Joint Venture

Sunny Ocean Studios Enables 84-Inch Glasses-Free 3-D Display at Youth Olympic Games in Singapore

Arkansas, Missouri, West Virginia, and Wisconsin Sue LCD Makers

AU Optronics Corp. Reports 2Q 2010 Financial Results

Avnet Completes Acquisition of Bell Microproducts

Total LCD TV Shipments to Grow to 188M Units in 2010

Prime View International (PVI) is Now E Ink Holdings Incorporated

Caltron Introduces Small Form-factor LED Monitor

Syndiant Introduces Embeddable Display Controller ASIC for Pico Projectors

Touch International's MulTI-Touch Technology Expands Touch Capabilities

OSD Displays Announces New 3.5-in. Transflective Display

Thin-Film Thickness Measurements with New 20/20 Film from CRAIC Technologies

Universal Display Introduces New Light-blue UniversalPHOLED Emitter System at SID

Tosoh SMD Introduces Indium Tin Oxide Rotary Sputtering Targets for Thin-Film Solar Applications

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