Pixel Qi Late?
I’ve read some news about how tablet projects are late because they are waiting on Pixel Qi. I don’t usually respond to the articles that take a different view of us than we ourselves do - but in this case I just want to clarify a fact:
We aren’t late!
We are starting production on schedule at the end of year and ramping up volumes in early next year… We are very proud of our ability to create a great new product-line over the last year amid the collapse of many banks and dry up of venture capital (this while we were seeking and gaining our first funding round) and in the subsequent quarters, while we were developing our new product-line, we weathered the great uncertainties of the LCD manufacturers: who faced bankruptcy and underwent massive restructuring to survive. Believe me, we were far from a priority with our manufacturing partners given these conditions.
Now the publishing industry seems poised on a major transition , and we appear to be the only screen entering mass production designed for reading that offers color, video, longer battery life and works as-is with existing software stacks (from OS to viewers) and in any lighting condition including the pitch black and outside in direct sunlight and integrates easily with touchscreens. It’s fun work - and we are hiring more and more to address the great demand for our products. Consider to join us!
It’s good that you mention it being easy to integrate with touchscreens. It seems like some have misinterpreted what was said in the Charbax.
Also, this probably isn’t the best place to ask, but I’ve been rather curious as to what the native resolution (in pixels) will be on your company’s initial 10.1″ displays?
In the future whoever laptop or MID manufacturer do not take pixel qi or similar technology will lose their market.
Didn’t Jeff Bezos laughed at Kindle?
Sorry, it’s Steve Paul Jobs laughed at Kindle.
Well, Steve was right to laugh at Kindle. The eInk-readers are still much to expensive for the crappy hardware design. Most available nettops/netvertibles are also cheap crap.
Dear PixelQi, please let me have a reasonable netvertible for christmas…please please pleeeeease..
PS: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com makes interesting netvertibles that could use your new screens..unfortunately, they have 9 inch..
@ pepe: Though their design looked interesting to me in the beginning, i find it too expensive for what I’d get, compared to upcoming competitors’ products. Esspecially as reciepients of the first batch reported quality issues not only with the software (which was actually officially stated to be still in beta stage from what i remember) but also with the hardware.
And by the way, I too laugh at Kindle. Actually I laugh at the whole current concept of eBooks and eBook readers. You don’t get price based compensation for the omission of printing and shipping costs and current DRM is magnitudes more restrictive than traditional print media. On top of that, you need an extra reading device.
That’s were 3Qi comes in though, because once netvertibles are reasonable eBook readers, you won’t need an extra device anymore.
Of course he could laugh at Kindle, you could, everyone could, but nothing stops Amazon laugh on their balance sheet.
Stop making us drool!
You may very well be the coolest parts designer since ARM
Hehe,
I’m starting to thing that your tablet customer is Apple itself.
Steve Jobs is not stupid and he thinks in a lot of things, like battery time,weight and mass production. If Apple introduce a tablet that can be read outdoors and mass produced he is instantly competing in the ebooks market, although he said it was not interesting for him because nobody reads, I’m sure he wants to be there because everybody reads for their work and so…
If he does he could be using the App Store to sell books in an instant and surpass kindle both in numbers and price. E-ink is expensive and not mass produced yet, pixel qi is cheap and known tech. Adding a hardware accelerated high quality pdf reader is so easy for them(they allready have it), no DRM, just read all your pdfs.
They have the power to bring capacitive touch screen in big size at mass production cost. The only problem I see is exclusivity licenses.
Just dreaming…
typo:I’m starting to think
As I remember - one of your employees emailed me that mass production will start at 4Q 2009. So it seems something has changed, or he hasn’t received sufficient information from supervisors. But whatever, it doesnt matter. What matters now if You technology become widely available and at reasonable prices.
LCDs with CCFL or even led-backlighted are for me, and perhaps for many other people, like interrogation lamps - user can’t focus on his work, sometimes gets headaches, at the end he is less effective.
I wish I could be your “ambassador” in my environment, country, but it seems You are too occupied with Your own problems…
Pity that 15,4′ replacement screens (for example for DIY assemble) won’t be available in a first place. I would install one with pleasure in my notebook. Of course if only this would be possible according to technical conditions.
> It’s fun work – and we are hiring more and more to address the great demand > for our products. Consider to join us!
What kind of people are you hiring?