Re: [Gumstix-users] Flexible OLED Display

[Holly G. <hgates@EINK.com>]

Maybe not totally on topic for the list here, but for anyone with an 
interest, let me straighten out this story a little bit:

>There is at least one competitor to Eink (can't remember the name --
>based in CA), and this is good, since getting technology -- or even
>datasheets -- from Philips can be difficult (even if you or your company
>buys a lot of stuff from them).  Eink was absorbed by Philips years ago,
>and have a rollable display in a quietly released Philips commercial
>handheld product that uses the gumstix. (!)  But you're never going to
>see that driver code available, even for licensing.
>  
>
E Ink is a private company, and is not a part of Philips. A few years 
ago, we formed a partnership with Philips to commercialize glass based 
active matrix panels based on E Ink technology; the direct result of 
that partership was the 6" svga display that went into the Sony Librie 
ebook. About a year ago, Philips decided to sell off its E Ink related 
business (part of its mass selloff of many businesses including OLED 
displays and now semiconductors). This business was purchased by PVI, a 
Taiwanese display maker. We now have a partnership with PVI to develop 
and commercialize glass based active matrix displays based on E Ink, 
with PVI also now making the 6" svga panel for Sony and the market in 
general. This is the panel that is in our developers kit (which also 
uses a gumstix): http://www. eink.com/kits/  We will also be bringing 
out new sizes through PVI, but for now the 6" is the only one in mass 
production.

In a totally separate category, we are also working with the world's 
foremost players in flexible active matrix backplanes to make progress 
towards flexible displays. One company in this category with very 
impressive technology is a firm called Polymer Vision, which is a 
Philips spinoff: http://www.polymervision.com  Not sure if they are 
still officially part of Philips or not; perhaps someone from PV can 
elaborate? Polymer Vision is responsible for the very cool functional 
roll out screen demo seen at various trade shows:
http://www.polymervision.com/ProductsApplications/Enterprise/Index.html
That demo uses their flexible active matrix backplane coupled with an E 
Ink frontplane.

Hope that clarifies things for you...

-Holly Gates
 Senior Hardware Engineer
 E Ink Corporation



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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:gum...@li...] On Behalf Of Matt
>Riddell (IT)
>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 17:07
>To: gum...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] [Gumstix-users]Flexible OLED Display
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>Keith Olson wrote:
>  
>
>>Now wouldn't /this/ make for an interesting display:
>>http://www.universaldisplay.com/concepts.htm
>>    
>>
>
>I don't understand why it's better than the upcoming colour version of:
>
>http://www.eink.com/technology/flexible.html
>
>--
>Cheers,
>
>Matt Riddell
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