SED Technology

[Tahir2]

After all this time it is possible SED will be superceded by other technologies for example OLED and better Plasma and LCD technology on the horizon.

 

[Ty]

After all this time it is possible SED will be superceded by other technologies for example OLED and better Plasma and LCD technology on the horizon.

IF they manage to make it out late 2007 at competitive prices, I doubt there will be much new technology ready at that point - more like refinement of current technology (as you mentioned) like another generation of LED back lighting.

 

[Tahir2]

The companies said Wednesday that they delayed the date of volume production of SEDs (surface-conduction electron-emitter displays) until July 2007, and the launch of the first SED TV sets won't be until the fourth quarter of that year. A major push on SEDs won't occur until the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6047405.html

Canon has invested about $200 million in SED production at a plant in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa prefecture. It has been working to cut production costs at the R&D center there, but is still struggling with yields, according to an industry source.
With establishment of the R&D center last August, Toshiba and Canon had planned to introduce SED TVs by this spring. That introduction has been postponed to the fourth quarter of 2007. The R&D center will begin limited production of 55-inch panels in July 2007.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502058

Maybe Toshiba and Canon should have a word with Sony and IBM about yields?

 

[Tahir2]

Canon had been hoping to get a piece of the $84 billion global flat-TV market using technology owned by Texas-based Nano-Proprietary.
But robed but not wigged one Judge Samuel Sparks of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said Nano-Proprietary had every right to walk away from its license agreement it signed with Canon in 1999.
Nano-Proprietary signed the deal with the understanding that Canon would go it alone and develop the technology itself.

http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=37826

The disagreement last month pushed Canon to decide to buy out the shares Toshiba owned in the unit, SED Ltd., but Nano-Proprietary said that move alone would not resolve the litigation.
"Canon's recent restructuring of SED as a wholly owned subsidiary is ineffective to prevent termination because this effort to cure the breach was not undertaken within a reasonable time," Sparks said in the ruling. "It occurred more than a year and a half after Canon was on notice of its breach."

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST16045820070223

RIP SED?

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST16045820070223

RIP SED?

Nano-Proprietary is obviously trying to get more money, either from Canon, from selling the tech to another big company for production. They might even intend to make it themselves but I doubt they have the resources.

It doesn't do Nano-Proprietary any good to simply kill off the technology and have no one use it in any products at all.