Amazon buys Liquavista display manufacturer for colored Kindle - Golem.de

Amazon has taken over the company Liquavista from Samsung, which manufactures flexible color e-paper displays. The display could be integrated into new e-book readers, would be the successor to the Kindle Paperwhite.

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Samsung has sold the e-book display manufacturers Liquavista according to the Dutch Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Amazon confirmed the site The Digital Reader the purchase, first reported on the sale.

“The team of Liquavista shares our passion for innovation and has developed interesting technologies with great potential., you are still at the very beginning, but we look forward to developing together with Liquavista these displays” The Digital Reader Amazon said. A purchase price not named Amazon.

In October 2010 Liquavista had demonstrated a prototype flexible displays. The electronic paper based on the electrowetting technique in which a membrane to liquids varied by applying an electrical voltage. On the membrane is a layer of a colored oil over a layer of water. When a voltage is applied, then the water pushes the oil together to form a drop. This then forms a pixel drops. The display does not require backlight.

The contents should be possible to read well even in bright environments. The screen is more responsive than a grayscale e-ink display, so that it can also represent videos. The beginning of 2011 had Liquavista at CES a color display.

Amazon would thus be a further development of the Kindles with e-ink display interesting that currently can only display grayscale. Although Amazon has with the Kindle Fire models also with color display in the program, but these tablet computers are equipped with a backlight and a traditional TFT display. The appearance of a paper e-ink displays do not offer.

the display manufacturer Samsung Liquavista took over in December 2010. The Dutch company was founded in 2006 by the Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven. It was funded by Amadeus Capital, Gimv, Applied Materials and Prime Technology Ventures. The company’s headquarters is located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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