Big news today. Prime View International, the company which manufactures the E Ink screens found on the majority of the world's eBook readers, is to buy the company that invented them.
http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/06/pvi_agrees_to_b.html
How do you think this will impact the e-paper industry? Will this accerlate mass adoption of e-paper devices?
I just came across this in the NY times too:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/01/technology/AP-US-E-Ink-Acquisition.html?ref=technology
I think the biggest effect of this is that epaper should reduce in price. PVI should be able to shrink costs from being sold the film by another commercial company....hopefully! Also relocating to the far east should help them purely geographically - a lot of companies which make screens in general are based there so there might be closer interactions which should likely increase production and could also reduce the price again by using cheaper labour prices. A lot of chemical countries in general are investing heavily in countries like China and India because the wages are so low that it pays to produce things there.
Also worth a note is that at the bottom of the NY times article they pointed out that E-Ink have not actually told anyone whether they are profitable yet or not - this implies that they are not which might have been a reason behind the acquisition but might have the knock on effect that there may be no effective price reduction to the consumer to bring them into black ink.
Thanks for the nyt link.
Yes, hopefully there is a price reduction for consumers. PVI will still need to recoup the 215 million it just spent though. :)
It makes sense to have all manufacturing in the East. It is too bad that the technology and all patents associated with it is no longer a "US technolgoy".
TheCoach Factory Online incidentCoach Factory Outlet Online promptedChanel Purses a lockdownCoach Factory Outlet of theCoach Outlet campus Chanel Purseson ThursdayCoach Store Online and revived Coach Factorymemories
Coach Factory Store of a gunman'sCoach Outlet Online 2007 rampageCoach Outlet that left Louis Vuitton Handbags33 people Coach Facotry Outlet Onlinedead in Louis Vuitton Storeone of the Coach Factory Outletworst Coach Factory Onlineshooting Coach Outlet OnlineincidentsCoach Fatory Outlet Store in U.SCoach Outlet Online. historyCoach Factory Outlet.BallisticsChanel Purses testing Chanel PurseconfirmedLouis Vuitton Bags the sameCoach Factory Online weapon Chanel Storewas used in Coach Outlet Onlineboth shootingsChanel Bag, police Louis Vuitton PursessaidCoach Outlet Online.ShortlyCoach Outlet Store Online after Chanel Storenoon/1700 GMTCoach Bags on ThursdayCoach Handbags, Crouse had Louis Vuitton Pursesa vehicle stoppedChanel Handbags in a campus parking Coach Outlet Onlinelot when he was approached by a man and fatally shot while still in his car, police said. The man then fled.
You must log in to post.
