After Ovshinsky allegedly violated their agreement, Manning sued and eventually received control of ECD's X-ray-mirror and flat-panel display technology, which he later sold off.

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Eaton will be able to attach its sensors and connect all the wiring back to a flat-panel display running the Windows CE operating system in the cab.

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Now, as chief executive of Applied Materials, the biggest pick-and-shovel maker for the semiconductor and flat-panel display industries, Splinter, 56, wants to forge a sunny-side-up version of Moore's Law.

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For an example of an inefficiently priced stock, look at colorful CopyTele, which during its 20 years as a public company has been developing a flat-panel display with presumably immense profit potential.

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"Because all-in-ones integrate a desktop tower into the back of a flat-panel display, they typically use smaller, less powerful notebook components that don't require a lot of space, " said Steve Smith, senior business manager of consumer desktops, Acer America.

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In the prototype, a flat-panel video display is bolted to the place where instruments such as the speedometer would normally be mounted.

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Besides consumer products and technologies, Philips also showed products for corporate users, including the new NetDisplay line of thin-client devices, which include a 15.1-inch flat panel LCD color display with a built-in processor and video core.

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