Hon Hai needs new sources for liquid crystal displays to meet rising demand from Apple, Amazon and other customers.
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It would imply the technology for liquid crystal displays represents most of the value of the company, and the rest of the business, including light emitting diodes, has limited value.
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Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.
They boast large global market shares in specialised niches: ceramics and other fine materials for semiconductors, tiny motors for hard drives and other digital equipment, a range of sophisticated machines for making liquid-crystal display panels, and so forth.
At Northeastern University's Husky Startup Challenge Demo Day, he took home first prize for KrystalBoard, a liquid crystal-based writing board.
At Northeastern University's Husky Startup Challenge Demo Day, he took home the "audience favorite" prize for KrystalBoard, a liquid crystal-based writing board.
Rather, it's a reflective display that uses a PNLC (Polymer Networked Liquid Crystal) module for improved brightness, and HR-TFT (high-reflective thin film transistor) technology to add contrast.
It is in talks with Hon Hai for a planned tie-up in liquid crystal display (LCD) production.
For starters, Apple may use a new liquid crystal display technology and change the physical size of the phone.
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To save power, for instance, the XO's liquid-crystal display (the biggest consumer of juice in a laptop) can be flipped from backlit colour to self-reflecting monochrome.
The digital "eyebrow" display at the top of the instrument panel provides high visibility for the Eco indicator and speedometer, while the lower liquid crystal meter display houses the new percentage style state-of-charge meter, power meter, battery temperature gauge, multi-function display, remaining energy gauge, capacity level gauge and distance to empty display.
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Remote controls will evolve into tablets with a big liquid-crystal screen that will allow Web searches for programs.
When liquid crystal became the global standard, it became more problematic for Sharp to produce both panels and televisions.
As for the liquid lens, Nippon Electric Glass' version uses low-power electric field to control its liquid crystal molecular orientation, thus changing the focal point.
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Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator, using liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 300 degrees below zero and taking hours to produce a reading.
Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator that used liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 184 degrees Celsius below zero and took hours to produce a reading.
Corning, which makes liquid crystal display televisions and computers, lowered its fourth-quarter outlook on Tuesday, citing weak demand for TV and computer monitors.
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