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July 1999
NEWS &
ANALYSIS
DMD Demand Overwhelms TI
Texas Instruments (Dallas,
TX) has under estimated the demand for their DMD (digital micromirror devices).
As a result, the company is now struggling to increase production. But even
working 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, they won't fully meet demand
requirements until early next year.
From the Editor
For me, probably the biggest news
from INFOCOMM'99 was the dominance that Texas Instrument's (Dallas, TX) Digital
Light Processing (DLP) technology has attained in the last three years. TI is
on a roll with more and more projection products turning to the DLP technology.
Is there anything stopping DLP from taking over? The answer is yes, but my
sense is that momentum has now shifted to DLP technology making any challenge
that much tougher.
Microportables
Debut
The months of May
and June saw the introduction of several new products that are being called a
new class of projector. Variously known as ‘microportable,' ‘pocket,'
‘notebook' or ‘personal' projectors, each of these new systems
features a weight of less than six pounds, yet they deliver high image quality
and a level of brightness (600 to 800 ANSI lumens) which can enable
‘lights on' presentations. All are based upon single-chip DLP
designs.
Microvision to Join Optical
Display Consortium
The
Integrated Small Precision Optics Manufacturing Technology Consortium (ISPOMT)
has announced that Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA) will join as a consortium
member. The consortium is led by the Rockwell Science Center (RSC, Thousand
Oaks, CA) and partially funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, which
assisted in bringing together the members.
SpatiaLight Readies SXGA
Microdisplay
Microdisplay developer SpatiaLight (Novato, CA) reports they will be ready to
begin sampling their new SXGA microdisplay by September. The new device, known
either as DisplASIC (Display Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or the
ImagEngine 1280DV, is based upon a liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) technical
approach.
VESA Upgrades Microdisplay
Group Status
At SID'99,
members of VESA's fledgling Microdisplay Special Interest Group (SIG) voted to
ask the VESA committee to upgrade their status. In June, VESA approved the
groups application to become the VESA Microdisplay Committee.
Industry News
Toshiba-Canon Go For
SEDs
Research Frontiers Hooks Dainippon Ink and Chemicals
Universal
Display Demonstrates High Efficiency OLED
TFT Plant Investments
APPLICATIONS
Headsets
Deatiled report on Daeyang's new headset
based upon a reflectve LCD, along with news from Sony's Broadcast and
Professional Group, Microvision, n-Vision, and Genesis
Microchip.
Wireless
A group of 30 companies has
approved new 3G wireless standards.
Front
Projection
Microportables (with
Table)
New product
introductions and news from Plus Corporation, Sharp Electronics, NEC
Technologies, InFocus Systems, and Compaq.
Ultraportables (with
Table)
New product
introductions and news from Sanyo Fisher, Canon, Epson America, Toshiba
America, JVC Professional Products Company, Sharp, Lightware, Davis,
Mitsubishi, Hitachi America, 3M Visual Systems, Proxima, Sony Electronics, and
Boxlight.
Desktop/Fixed Install
Segment (with Table)
New product introductions and news from Epson, Sanyo Fisher, Eiki
International, Panasonic, Sharp, Canon, AmPro, Liesegang, 3M Visual Systems,
Toshiba, Philips, NEC Technologies, Barco, Apti America, Victor Company of
Japan, and Hughes-JVC.
Business News
News from APTi America,
Toshiba, InFocus Systems, Proxima, NEC Home Electronics, JVC Professional
Products Company, and Boxlight.
MARKET
INTELLIGENCE
Market
studies from Petersen & Prusia, International Data Corporation, Japan
Electronic Industry Development Association (JEIDA), China's State
Administration of Machinery Industry (SAMI), InfoTrends Research Group,
CyberEdge Information Services, Showtime Networks Inc. and Paul Kagan
Associates.
BOTTOM LINE
Financial news from Silicon
Light Machines, Microvision, Universal Display Corporation, Aura Systems,
SpatiaLight, and Genesis Microchip.
MOVERS &
SHAKERS
Personnel
information from Silicon Light Machine, n-Vision and Planar
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