E Ink Holdings Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts), the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, and Sharp Display Technology Corporation, a leading company in the field of displays, have announced their collaboration and the adoption of SDTC’s indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) backplanes for ePaper modules used in eReader and eNote products.
In the Startup category, the HyPrint (Heidelberg, Germany) team around founders Andreas Laib and Richard Leys prevailed against strong competition from a wide range of industries. From a combination of jury points and online voting, the winner was announced on 24 September at the European Forum on the Rhine in Neuried.
A consortium of Fraunhofer institutes and well-known German industrial companies is developing a split-manufacturing approach for semiconductor production in the project "Distributed Manufacturing for Novel and Trustworthy Electronics T4T". This will enable the secure assembly of subsystems in Germany and safeguard supply chains.
