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To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (2108)	2/16/2000 7:21:00 PM
From: rushnomore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10713

Robert, what is the connection between CREE's products and WAP stocks? I need to know because I am invested in both.

To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (2108)	2/16/2000 11:52:00 PM
From: voop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10713

Robert have you seen KOPN CyberDisplay? From the company website CyberDisplays As mobile devices get more capable, as digital cameras go to and pass mega-pixel resolutions, it will be an absolute requirement for a display to present more and more data, or better and better images. These requirements will mean at a minimum that the displays needed for these products must be able of presenting at least as much information as you'd see on a notebook PC screen, or a desktop monitor. How could you ever put that much information on a direct view display and still fit the display into a portable device? Clearly, that isn't possible. As you make a direct view display larger the power requirements get proportionally larger. Clearly that won't work. Consumers will not walk around with pockets full of batteries. Therefore, your only real choice is to use a virtual display in such products. Virtual displays that align themselves in time with the needs and capabilities of the products they are designed for. Anyone can show a lab prototype and suggest it may have a great future. Kopin develops and manufactures displays that fit all seven market criteria. That's why we believe the CyberDisplay represents a whole new class of monitors for ultra-portable devices. The CyberDisplay represents a major breakthrough in display technology for personal information devices of all types. It is a small-format, high-performance, low-cost AMLCD display capable of presenting all of the information that can normally be viewed on a typical PC monitor - yet the CyberDisplay is over 1,000 times smaller, and thus can be easily designed into all types of personal information devices like camcorder viewfinders, digital still cameras viewfinders, wireless communications devices, personal computer and entertainment systems, handheld GPS devices and custom applications. Like the desktop monitor, the CyberDisplay is capable of presenting lots of information and presenting that information in the same format we are used to seeing on our desktop monitors. . The displays are all small (less than .24 inch diagonal), present superb images, and are easy to design-in. All of the display drive electronics are located right on the display. This includes the scanning shift registers, the clock, the level translators, the transmission gates, and of course the pixel transistors. The only other electronics needed are to interface the customer's system to the CyberDisplay. Kopin's long term product plans are quite simple really. They are: 1. Higher resolution displays; 2. Lower power requirements for displays; 3. Lowest cost displays. When it comes to "virtual displays", Kopin will be the name you see first Kopin uses two very mature technologies in the development of the CyberDisplay. The first is a standard Integrated Circuit process and the second is a standard Liquid Crystal process. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year improving these processes. Kopin gets the benefit of all of this investment. Kopin uses a single crystal silicon process in the development of the CyberDisplay allowing them to operate the CyberDisplay at 180 frames per second. These high speeds make it possible to implement a color sequential methodology to obtain color. This approach not only gives 17.6 million colors, the color images are much crisper and clearer than a stripe or mosaic pixelization approaches used by others. CyberDisplay colors are not smeared over three or four pixels using Kopin's methodology. The color images also incorporate Kopin's patented PixelChrome(tm) technology which makes the color images of the CyberDisplay are truly astounding. Because the world is really transmissive when it comes to displays. All current notebook PCs are transmissive TN-LCD. Practically all current data projectors use transmissive TN-LCD. The investments made each year throughout the world in improving transmissive TN-LCDs is enormous. Kopin gets to take advantage of those investments. Additionally, transmissive displays are the norm for other reasons which include: 1. easier optics 2. better viewing under all kinds of lighting conditions 3. smaller form factor The hoped for advantage of reflective technology (which is more light output) is not feasible for small battery operated products due to optical limitations. Voop