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Article | 15/03/2011 Flat panel makers face shortages after Japanese quake
Major display panel manufacturers face a shortage of materials from Japan as the powerful earthquake on Friday has hit their suppliers, companies and ...
Article | 11/03/2011 3M and Quanta to process touch panels in Singapore
Contract manufacturing giant Quanta Computer has joined with 3M to form a new company that will produce advanced touch-screen displays for tablet PCs,...
Article | 9/03/2011 Display tech to watch this year: Multitouch catches fire
Touch-screen panels have been around for more than a decade, but it was the 2007 introduction of a multitouch screen in Apple's iPhone that galvanized...
Article | 4/03/2011 Taiwan researchers seek to perfect LED backlights, MEMS
A government-funded research institute in Taiwan have kicked off a three-year effort to develop cheaper, longer-lasting LED backlights in mobile phone...
Article | 2/03/2011 Taiwan orders work to stop at growing science park
A Taiwan court has ordered work to stop expansion at a science park, the latest move in a saga that has pitted environmental groups against the island...
Article | 17/02/2011 Taiwan firm to supply touch sensors to Samsung
Sintek Photronic, a Taiwan-based maker of touch panel sensors, has signed with Samsung Mobile Display a deal to help the South Korean company overcome...
Article | 16/02/2011 Sony unveils 17-inch, 25-inch professional OLED monitors
Sony will soon begin selling a professional monitor that contains the largest commercial organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen yet produced.
Article | 14/02/2011 Taiwan considers letting China invest in LCD panels
Taiwanese officials are discussing ways to let investors from mainland China buy stakes in the island's LCD panel makers, an economics ministry repres...
Article | 14/02/2011 Taiwan LCD panel maker to set up solar plant
A subsidiary of AU Optronics, one of Taiwan's top panel makers, will open a solar factory in Taiwan late this year to save money and increase competit...
Article | 6/01/2011 LG shows 4.3-inch, 7-inch glasses-free 3D screens at CES
LG Electronics showed it's serious about 3D in mobile devices on Wednesday, introducing a new 4.3-inch glasses-free 3D screen for mobile devices and a...
Article | 30/11/2010 Microsoft pioneers tactile display technology
Possibly leapfrogging today's touch-screen technologies, Microsoft has figured out a way to make the computer displays themselves change in shape unde...
Article | 24/11/2010 Flexible screens on the way for E-readers
Flexible screens as thin as a piece of paper may be available for e-readers by early next year thanks to a project from Taiwan's Industrial Technology...
Article | 11/11/2010 Samsung, LG show flexible OLED, e-paper screens
Samsung Electronics and LG Display have developed prototype flexible displays that can be gently bent while continuing to show images. The displays ar...
Article | 10/11/2010 Color comes to E Ink, LG electronic-paper displays
The first commercial electronic paper displays that can show color were unveiled Wednesday at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan. The ...
Article | 10/11/2010 Samsung develops see-through screens to replace windows
Samsung Electronics has developed see-through flat-panel screens intended to be used as high-tech windows. They could overlay news or the time on offi...