At the
DisplaySearch Emerging Display Technology Conference Sriram Peruvemba, VP of Marketing at E Ink
talked about their successes and plans.
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Display Search's Jennifer Colegrove said she expected 22 million e-paper displays will be shipped this year, growing to 1.8 billion by 2018. This would see an increase in revenues from $431 million this year to $9.6 billion in 2018.
Sriram Peruvemba of E-ink, whose technology is in most of the e-readers currently shipping, said there are now more than 45 e-book models available worldwide from over 25 makers, with millions of units sold.
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Coming up will be flexible displays and larger displays, but the "killer application" for ebooks will be e-textbooks, Peruvemba said. He said there are over 100 million post-secondary students worldwide, and students tend to spend more for textbooks than the cost of an electronic reader.
Peruvemba said he expected color would be important for some applications (and is particularly need for advertising) and said he expected mass production of color displays to be started by the end of next year. He said the current display has a 250 ms response time and about a 6:1 contrast ratio, but that would be improved next year.
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Another report from the conference.