Archive for June, 2008

Oiling the Supply Chain

Friday, June 13th, 2008

by David Barnes, Vice President, Strategic Analysis When I was a kid, oiling my bicycle chain was a good thing. Back then, riding through a creek full of muddy water was a good thing.   Today, navigating through the muddy waters of our global economy is not so fun. Oil and the display ...

A Time of Turbulence in the Panel Market

Monday, June 9th, 2008

By David Barnes, Vice President, Strategic Analysis Natural disasters, a credit crisis and commercial cycles are sending confusing signals as we approach a peak in the crystal cycle. Fasten your seatbelts; it looks like 2008 will be a rough ride. As the year began, TFT LCD suppliers predicted tight supply. They looked ...

A Call to Paul*

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

by Barry Young, Senior Advisor and Consultant Intel introduced the 2W+ Atom, its latest low cost, low power microprocessor, which is yet another attempt to expand their market by creating a product family, falling between the Smart Phone and the notebook. This “middy” device which in previous incarnations has failed miserably ...

Oxide Semiconductors: Potential Revolutionary AMOLED Fabrication Technology

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

by Charles Annis, Vice President, Manufacturing Research SID, the display industry’s leading annual academic conference, is always a great source of information on R&D into future display technologies. Crystallization of a-Si to p-Si and its application to AMOLED fabrication have been a favorite topic of the symposium for several years now. ...