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Originally Posted by gastan
I've been trying to stay informed on this as well but it's been hard (for me, at any rate) to find info on this. The latest I read was:
"However, SiPix encountered the problem of unstable submicron particle when the electric field is applied not to show the images. KY Lee, chairman of AUO, also personally looked into this matter and requested the company to solve the problem by this July in order not to miss the business opportunity of e-book at the end of the year. According to the internal resources, SiPix has adjusted the material and plans to resend the sample for approval. The mass production is estimated to kick off in Q3, 2010."
(Dated March 17 from here: http://www.computex.biz/HeadlineNews...?list_id=33750)
Also, DigiTimes is reporting the resignation of the chairman of SiPix, perhaps because of the production problems.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100421PD210.html
This is dated just two days ago. Seems like there may be some chaos at SiPix.
If they don't fix the problems until July they may not start mass production until Sept or Oct -- still Q3 but consumer end products then may not appear until Nov or Dec.
Very disappointing. My hopes now are for the Adam. I'm willing to give everyone another six weeks or so and if no news is forthcoming I think I'll just get the BeBook Neo and wait until it wears out before worrying about large screen devices. |
Thanks for the links. I don't doubt that the problem will be solved. The description is a bit confusing but I can attest to the manifestation of the problem as I was at least one of the people (maybe the only one?) who found it in my testing of a prototype obtained at CES. They were ready to ship I believe and that would have been a big problem. I prefer that they get it right before mass production although there are some that just complain that they are not shipping soon enough.
Dale