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Originally Posted by Nate the great
It won't be used in ereaders. There's no money in that market any more:
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There is money. Extrapolating from figures in this article, I gather that E Ink Holdings Inc's annual revenue from eReader displays is roughly US$300 million:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/.../18/2003646493
Unfortunately, for E Ink Holdings, it is costing more than that to produce those displays -- which perhaps is your point. Since it looks like demand for the product is continuing, and Amazon can't want them to go out of business, I expect that costs of production, and revenue, will soon balance.
Re the OP (post #1) report, hello! It is based on what amounts to a press release from Xinhua, the official state news agency of an authoritarian government, blowing the horn of a local firm. Googling the named company, the great majority of the hits come back, directly or indirectly, to that press release.
Here is a link to another article that also links back the the press release, but at least tries to provide some perspective:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-chinese...paper.html#jCp
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Thus far, the new material has not been publicly demonstrated, and it is still not clear how available products will be even after they move into production next year as promised. Despite advances, such as those made by engineers at MIT last year, it is still not clear if it will be possible to mass produce such a product in a defect-free manner. Also not clear is if the new material will be sold in partnership with other companies with a high profile in marketing e-readers, such as Amazon's Kindle device.
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Based on what we now know, I am going to call Guangzhou OED Technologies's graphene electronic paper an example of
vaporware.
P.S. My first link is from a good independent newspaper.