27 Jan 2011

Liquavista acquired by Samsung
Liquavista BV was recently acquired by consumer electronics firm Samsung Electronics in a buyout of all shares from past shareholders.
6 Oct 2010

Printed Electronics Asia 2010 event preview
IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia 2010 and Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Harvesting & RFID Asia are now less than a week away. The two co-located conferences will cover a multitude of topics and will give you access to detailed presentations on these mutually supporting subjects, covering both the technologies and their applications.
17 Sep 2010

TSMC begins building solar R&D center and fab in central Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company enters into the thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) market.
28 Jul 2010

Printed Electronics in Asia - the hot sectors
There are about 3,000 organizations worldwide actively involved in the development of printed electronics. By number of organizations, Europe has the edge over the U.S., then comes Asia. However, this disguises the fact that those involved in Asia tend to be large conglomerates that can invest much more than those in the West.
15 Jun 2010

LG Display number one in the e-reader market by 2012 - and in color
LG Display plan to take the global number 1 position in the e-reader market by 2012 with the introduction of a flexible, color Electronic Paper Display (EPD) stated the Company yesterday.
31 May 2010

IDTechEx report back from SID - Day two
As the interest in electronic paper technologies continues some of the major developers where present in the exhibition.
External press release
26 May 2010

Liquavista launches ground-breaking transflective product platform
Liquavista launches ground-breaking transflective product platform
External press release
13 May 2010

Liquavista collaborates with Freescale
Freescale's embedded processors for eReader applications allow developers to trial Liquavista electrowetting displays with real applications
External press release
16 Apr 2010

Liquavista receives a further 7 million Euros
Liquavista receives a further 7 million Euros for commercialisation of electrowetting displays
11 Feb 2010

The future of electronic paper: Fast-switching full-colour e-readers.
The success of e-reader technology so far has only wetted the appetite for new devices with more functionality. The Kindle, for all its success, has its limitations and the technology companies behind it are fully aware of that. That is why E Ink, and its parent company PVI, are working intensely on the next generation of e-readers. Requirements include flexibility, the transition from black and white to full colour displays, and switching speeds able to support video playback.
1 Feb 2010

SID low power displays & touch screen technologies conference - day 1
Power saving for displays is becoming more and more interesting as efforts continue in all industries to lower power consumption together with producing energy from sustainable sources. Displays have been known to be hungry for power, with some technologies known to be much less "green" than others (e.g. plasma displays).
13 Jan 2010

Liquavista launches Color display for eReaders
Liquavista BV. has launched its latest technology platform LiquavistaColor, which offers bright full color capability and the advantages of full interactivity and hi-fidelity video at ultra-low power to future advanced eReader devices for the first time.
21 Dec 2009

Race for color video e-readers
The e-reader is a killer application involving printed electronics. Despite costing more than an i-Pod, the Amazon Kindle achieved 500,000 unit sales in its first year of trading last year and now we are talking of millions. The i-Pod, an iconic success, only achieved 300,000 unit sales in its first year of trading.
11 Dec 2009

Emerging display technologies and innovations
On December 10, the UK Knowledge Transfer Network had a meeting in Grove Oxfordshire on Emerging Display Technologies and Innovations. About 35 people attended. Professor Ian Underwood of Edinburgh University in Scotland described work on microemissive OLED displays under the title "Hypoled - Next Generation Display Platform ."
External press release
28 Oct 2009

Liquavista's revolutionary displays set to transform eReader market
Liquavista launched its first technology platform LiquavistaBright, aimed at the booming eReader space.
22 Sep 2009

E-paper display market reaches $1.17 billion in 2014
IDTechEx find that the total market size for e-paper displays in 2010 is $131 million rising to $1.17 Billion in 2014 - this is the value of the display component, not the product.