Ah, dpiX is a Xerox company, spun out of Xerox Parc a couple of years ago to focus on flat panel displays and some other related technologies. They have shown the capability of fabricating and producing (in at least limited quantities) LCDs of approximately twice the resolution of conventional commercial LCDs. And big ones too, upwards of 7 million pixels!
They are a nich market supplier, not aiming at the high volume, low cost display markets. They have some of the newest equipment, with a lot of cluster tooling, configured to produce modest volumes of many different products, rather than huge amounts of a few products. By way of analogy, their fab is more like a programmable machining center, compared with, say, a high-volume screw machine.
In this way, they are more like OIS, though my sense is that they are a lot deeper technology wise because of their Xerox roots.
From the technology standpoint, they are aiming ultimately at being able to render images with quality equivalence to ink-and-paper and radiographic imagery in order to eliminate the paper and film media in environments where they aren't really needed.
-- Jim |
