E Ink Inc

E Ink says that although Samsung was a client, its decision to withdraw from the EPD business will not effect the company significantly - Samsung was a small client, apparently.

Samsung 10.1-inch color e-paper prototype

via Digitimes

E Ink says that Hanvon has adopted their color EPD, and will launch the first e-readers that use it in 4Q 2010. The display will use E Ink's latest Pearl EPD with a color filter. E Ink expects color e-readers to account for 10% of the global e-reader market in 2011.

Color E Ink prototype

E Ink has also posted their 2Q financial reports - revenues were $162 million, and their gross margin was 39.6%.

E Ink Holding (previous PVI) has posted their June revenues - $53.04 million (USD). Down 3% sequentially but up 4% on year. E Ink expects its revenues for the second quarter of 2010 to remain flat or increase slightly compared to the first quarter.

Revenues for the third quarter are expected to rise significantly, because there are several new e-readers planned for that time.

E Ink has announced their next-gen display technology called Pearl, to be released in July 2010. This new display has about 50% improved contrast ratio compared to the current Vizplex displays. The Pearl has 16 levels of gray, improved power consumption (and of course they do not require power when images are not changed).

The Pearl is the display used in Amazon's new Graphite Kindle DX, which will ship on July 2010, and cost $379.

Sriram Peruvemba, VP of marketing at E-ink is showing new plastic-based flexible display prototypes. This is a long video, in which he also shows all sorts of other E Ink based displays :

Prime View International (PVI) was the international name Yuan Tai Technologies of Taiwan. Now they have decided to change the international name to E Ink Holdings Incorporated. The company reaffirms their strong commitment to ePaper.

E Ink Holdings Incorporated will offer its ePaper products under the brand name ‘E Ink’ and its LCD products under the brand name ‘Hydis’.

E Ink and Chilin Technology Corporation announced a partnership today to bring E Ink displays to the marketplace. Chilin will be able to produce, distribute and sell vizplex E Ink imaging film. This joint effort combines Chilin's expertise in developing custom displays and turnkey solutions with E Ink's unique low-power, paper-like, sunlight readable, lightweight displays.

One target application for this effort is industrial controls or mobile industrial applications where the low-power and daylight readability qualities of an electronic paper display provide value. Another example use is shop owners struggling to manage in-store product price information in a timely and economical manner. Joint solutions in the electronic shelf label space support dynamic and accurate updates of in-store information displays.