Kindle's E-ink manufacturer has been sold.

krisk · 06-02-2009, 12:07 PM

http://www.komonews.com/news/tech/46628172.html. it doesn't appear to be to momentous, it seems that they were already partners. the brief blurn does mention a focus on color ink.

wallcraft · 06-04-2009, 12:44 PM

The article is a bit misleading. E Ink Corp. is the developer of a particular kind of Electrophoretic Display (EPD) technology that is used in current ebook readers and it also makes the film that is the visible part of that display. PVI takes the film and builds the actual display screens. Now PVI has bought E Ink corporation. This is a bet by PVI that E Ink will continue to be a dominant (or at least competitive) low power technology going forward, e.g. including with color displays.

06-02-2009, 12:07 PM	#1
krisk Wizard Posts: 2,148 Karma: 8229 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: on the road again Device: kindle	Kindle's E-ink manufacturer has been sold. http://www.komonews.com/news/tech/46628172.html. it doesn't appear to be to momentous, it seems that they were already partners. the brief blurn does mention a focus on color ink.

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06-04-2009, 12:44 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	The article is a bit misleading. E Ink Corp. is the developer of a particular kind of Electrophoretic Display (EPD) technology that is used in current ebook readers and it also makes the film that is the visible part of that display. PVI takes the film and builds the actual display screens. Now PVI has bought E Ink corporation. This is a bet by PVI that E Ink will continue to be a dominant (or at least competitive) low power technology going forward, e.g. including with color displays.

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