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Tel: (886 - 2) 2712 6877 (Extension: 370) ktsai@globalsources.com Japan - E2 Publishing Co Tel: +81-3-3556-3841 - sales@eetimes.jp E-paper is Æ nally within sight but what is its worth without pervasive wireless access? We all have heard about e-paper and how it was going to revolutionize the way we work. This was decades ago. Today are we even close and what are the requirements needed to push good old paper out of the door? Like so many electronic developments, early versions are just very expensive inferior replacements for an existing product. Take for example early PDAs which were in the beginning mainly contact management devices or agendas. Traditional paper agendas were 100 times cheaper and did not lose everything when the battery died. None the less PDAs eventually made it into the world by evolving. So what about e-paper. I believe that once we have practical e-paper, just to use it as a replacement for books or magazines or newspapers will not really work. What is needed is a wireless e-paper product that can download information at will, and preferably any where over a WiMAX type network. Now we might have a revolution on hand. E Ink and Seiko Epson have jointly developed an electronic paper display controller that they claim breaks the speed bottleneck that has stood in the way of e-paper’s use for interactive applications. "Many original equipment manufacturers thought that active-matrix electrophoretic displays were too slow for stylus input or drop-down menus — or even to keep up with a fast typist—but the bottleneck was the controller chip," said Sri Peruvemba, vice president of marketing at E Ink. "The engineers at Epson helped us design a controller chip that proves interactive applications are possible for electrophoretic displays." The main advantage of such displays is that they use reﬂected light instead of a backlight, making them easy to read at any angle in normal room lighting as well as in bright sunlight. LCDs, by contrast, are hard to read in sunlight and have a limited viewing angle. E Ink claims dozens of OEMs are readying devices, using both rigid and ﬂexible substrates, based on its electrophoretic displays. The most notable designs to date include e-books from Sony and Amazon. com, but six other OEMs have been announced, including Samsung and LG Electronics. Epson itself is readying devices using E Ink's electrophoretic displays. There are still two major disadvantages, e-paper for all practical purposes is black and white technology and the WiMAX type networks are not here yet to give us the information mobility needed, in my mind, to create a true killer application. On the other hand, the seeds are being planted, and the world might ﬁnally see practical e-paper on the market. E-paper might also play a part in creating another market for WiMAX to address, thus boosting the wireless market further. Jean-Pierre Joosting Editor mwee@eetimes.be Mobile:- +32-473-606005 TECHINSIGHTS A UBM COMPANY Paul Miller Group President Microwave Engineering ● May 2008 ● www.mwee.com http://www.mwee.com

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