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AU Optronics planning 10-inch, A4 touchscreen epaper
By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 24th 2009 No Comments

The scaling up of business partnerships in the approach to the launch of Plastic Logic’s eponymous ebook reader, together with the sell-out success of the Amazon Kindle DX certainly seems to suggest that there’s a market out there for large-scale e-paper devices, and that’s a segment manufacturer AU Optronics seem keen to capitalize on. According to CEO LJ Chen, the company is ramping up to produce 10-inch and A4 (8 x 11 inch) sized e-paper panels.


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Those large sizes will follow the company’s 6- to 9-inch e-paper panels, which should see mass shipments beginning in Q3 2009. These will be available in in-cell or on-cell touch panel versions, for pen and finger input, and build on AUO’s fifth-generation production lines.

Shipments of e-labels – smaller-scale e-paper used to display dynamically changing price and transit labels used in retail and other segments – have already begin, using AUO’s fourth-gen production facilities. However the company posted a net loss in its Q209 financial report, with revenue up NT$82.5bn ($2.51bn) but losses of NT$6.6bn ($201m). Back in June AUO demonstrated a 6-inch dual-screen ebook reader with capacitive touchscreens.