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PRESS RELEASE
EDITORIAL CONTACT:
Dian Mecca
Phone (203) 853-7069
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SID and Information Display Magazine, December 10, 1999
SID and Information Display Magazine Announce 1999 Display of the Year Awards
Toshiba, Sharp, Pixelworks, MicroOptical, Silicon Graphics and the Digital Display Working Group Win International Awards
December 10, 1999 - Norwalk, Connecticut. The Society for Information Display and Information Display magazine today announced the winners of the fifth annual 1999 Display of the Year Awards.
The Display of the Year Gold Award went to Toshiba Corp.'s family of direct-view, low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT-LCDs with integrated drivers. Low power consumption and higher durability make these 4", 8.4" and 10.4" LTPS TFT LCDs ideal for portable applications. Toshiba's aggressive development and commercialization of LTPS TFT-LCDs is providing system designers with thin, light-weight displays that do not require external LCD drivers, resulting in more reliable displays that are more resistant to mechanical stress.
The silver award was given to MicroOptical Corp., for its Clip-on & Invisible Monitor™, an eyeglass display that puts a microdisplay in the ear piece of a superficially ordinary pair of eyeglasses, and reflects the image into the eye with a virtually invisible prism embedded in the eyeglass lens. The result is a one-ounce virtual display that provides a clear, sharp virtual image in front of the user. The current quarter-VGA model, weighs only 100 grams and adds only about $250 to the cost of a prescription pair of eyeglasses.
The Display Product of the Year Awards honor the use of a display in a product or system in a way that enhances the product's functionality, usability, or user appeal. The Gold Display Product of the Year Award was awarded to Sharp Corp.'s 20" LCD Color TV, the world's largest -screen, commercially available direct-view AMLCD TV. The 640x480-pixel display has a viewing angle of 120 horizontal and 100 vertical, and an enhanced color filter that combines with the bright backlight to produce substantially enhanced color purity and 40,000-hour lifetime. The Silver Display Product of the Year Award went to Silicon Graphics, Inc.'s 1600SW digital, wide-screen professional LCD monitor. The 1600SW features a 17.3" SuperWide™ screen with 16:10 aspect ratio and 1600x1024 pixels. The monitor combines wide viewing angles of 120 horizontal, +45 /55 vertical, with a response time fast enough for viewing video and interacting with 3D models, making it ideal for content creators, engineers, and financial professionals.
The Display Material or Component of the Year Award (DMCA) honors the important contributions to display performance, manufacturability, and economy that can be produced by the inclusion of improved materials and components. The Gold DMCA was awarded to Pixelworks, Inc.'s PW364/264 Single-chip ImageProcessor™ Display Controllers, the world's first single-chip flat-panel display controllers.
The chip - the first 0.25-micron system-level-integration ASIC with embedded DRAM - contains half a million gates of random logic, a 32-Mb SDRAM core, and an on-board integrated 16-bit processor running at up to 133 MHZ. Pixelworks has made a giant step toward reducing the size and cost of LCD controller boards and toward bringing LCDs into the monitor mainstream.
The Silver Display Material or Component of the Year went to the Digital Display Working Group's Digital Video Interface (DVI). The DVI is a digital interface standard that was developed by a group of industry leaders including Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, and Silicon Image, and appears to have earned the general acceptance of the display and computer industries.
The standard specifies a single plug and connector that encompasses both the new digital and legacy VGA interfaces, as well as a digital-only plug and connector, answering the industry need "for a common digital connectivity specification for digital displays and high-performance PCs while allowing for existing analog support."
DVI handles bandwidths in excess of 160 MHZ, and thus supports UXGA and HDTV with a single set of links. DVI should accelerate the trend to routine support of digital displays by PC-based controllers, thus reducing the cost of digital liquid-crystal monitors.
The winners of the SID Information Display Display of the Year Awards are selected by the Display of the Year Awards Committee in a painstaking six-month process. The members of this international committee are distinguished display technologists and leading editors who cover the display industry. A full description of the award winners can be found in the cover story of the December issue of Information Display.
Information Display magazine is the world's leading magazine devoted to display technology, manufacturing, and applications. It is owned by the Society for Information Display. Editorial offices are in Norwalk, Connecticut (kwerner@sid.org); advertising and production offices are in New York City (tleibowitz@newyork.palisades.org).
The Society for Information Display is an international society devoted to the advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and applications, with headquarters at 31 East Julian Street, San Jose, California 95112 USA. Website: www.sid.org.
About the Digital Display Working Group
The Digital Display Working Group was formed last fall to define a universal industry standard for the digital interface between PCs, consumer electronic devices and digital displays. The DDWG is a cooperative effort by Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), NEC and Silicon Image. DDWG membership information can be found at www.ddwg.org.
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