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Color E Ink displays demonstrated to Amazon and B&N

By Chris Davies on Friday, Mar 19th 2010 No Comments

flexible color e paper1E Ink-owning heavyweight PVI have apparently been showing off their latest color ereader display prototypes to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, in both 6-inch and 9.7-inch sizes, ahead of mass production in Q4 2010.  The news follows earlier comments from PVI’s VP of marketing that color E Ink devices would begin shipping in Q1 2011.

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Kindle e-paper makers PVI buy E Ink for $215m

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 1st 2009 No Comments

E Ink, the e-paper specialists behind the displays used in Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, Sony’s Reader, the keyboard of the Samsung Alias 2 cellphone and various other devices, has been acquired by Prime View International (PVI).  The deal, which valued E Ink at $215m, sees the e-paper IP and technology specialists now combined with the manufacturers of the panels themselves.

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Color e-paper launch delayed to 2010; large-screen Sony ereader in 2009?

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 8th 2009 No Comments

flexible color e paperBad news for anybody hoping for PVI’s color e-paper before the end of 2009, as the company has pushed back the launch until 2010 having encountered “barriers to achieving satisfactory results”.  To make up for the disappointment, however, PVI have tipped a larger ebook reader from Sony later in 2009, to compete with the recently-announced Amazon Kindle DX.

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Flexible e-paper mass production imminent; color version soon after?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

flexible color e paperWe could soon be seeing broad commercial availability of both flexible e-paper and color e-paper displays, if rumors regarding manufacturer Prime View International (PVI) pan out.  Industry sources are suggesting that PVI are preparing to mass produce flexible electrophoretic displays (EPDs), which use a TFT backplane with an electrophoretic frontplane based on E Ink technology, and will follow that up with color displays using the same processes.

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