Seattle, WA, May 27, 2004--During the annual meeting of the Society for Information Display, SiPix (Fremont, CA), developer and manufacturer of a fully-scalable electronic paper compatible with all display types has entered into an agreement with Polymer Vision, a venture in the Technology Incubator of Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, The Netherlands). SiPix will be working with Polymer Vision to jointly develop a rollable, flexible electronic display consisting of SiPix's Microcup Electrophoretic Film (EPF) and Philips' extremely thin and flexible TFT backplane. The goal is to create the thinnest, most flexible, durable and rollable display demonstrated to date, to store a large screen within a small device.

Existing portable products (such as mobile phones and PDAs) are limited in their form factor by the size of the display. With this new rollable, flexible display, the potential function and content delivery through wireless networks can expand substantially. Benefits of this type of display include: improved access to text and images stored in a mobile device and enhanced viewing and storing of information.

"The market opportunity for this type of display technology is immediate and limitless," said R.C. Liang, Vice Chairman & CTO of SiPix. "Our core Microcup structure allows our e-paper to be of the highest quality. The result is the thinnest, readable, portable, durable and flexible display."

Thu May 27 00:01:00 CDT 2004