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Firms to buy 80% of dpiX

Looking to secure a steady supply of TFT arrays, three companies have signed an agreement with Xerox to acquire 80% of its dpiX subsidiary. The companies are Trixell, Planar Systems, and Varian Medical Systems. All three companies are dpiX customers which share a common interest in dpiX's design, development, and manufacturing capabilities, the display provider says. The subsidiary spun off from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1996 to manufacture TFT arrays for x-ray digital detectors and LCDs. The three-member consortium hopes to further develop dpiX's technology and share the cost of developing new products. The majority owner is the French firm Trixell, a joint venture among Philips Medical Systems, Siemens Medical Engineering, and Thomson-CSF. Xerox did not disclose the sale price.

Three-Five wins display order

Three-Five Systems has received a multimillion-dollar order for LCD modules from a steady customer. The unnamed client will purchase more than 1 million displays for use in a new multiband digital cellular telephone. Shipments of the units were set to begin last May. The graphics display module is manufactured using Three-Five's chip-on-glass technology. It contains an LCD, a connector, and related components. Chip-on-glass manufacturing places the semiconductor directly on the back of the display. Three-Five claims the method improves display performance by reducing module size, increasing speed, and lowering production costs.

NEC unveils five LCDs

A 6.5-in. model for the portable instrumentation market is one of five LCD modules introduced by NEC Electronics. The others are two 10.4-in. units for industrial use, a 12.1-in. module for point-of-sale products, and a 14.1-in. module with an integrated interface board. The 10.4-in. panels for the industrial market include both a VGA and SVGA version. The integrated CRT interface of the 14.1-in. display incorporates the analog interface board directly into the module. This feature lowers overall system costs by reducing the number of cables and connections, NEC says.

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