Pixel Qi Starting Production

December 7, 2009 at 1:35 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Our first production batch of screens will be ready shortly. We will be ramping production scale over Q1 2010.

We can now announce that the first units are going into specialized tablet devices with multi-touch. Increasingly these screens will be super-slim, but some customers prefer the standard thickness.

During Q1 2010 we will make every attempt to allow a small number of our screens to be available to the DIY community. If possible please hold your individual requests until we post information on how to do this. We do hear you, but we are flat-out starting production this month. Individual requests will not be answered until we post information on how to do DIY orders.

Pixel Qi will be at CES in Las Vegas in early January supporting our customers. We can’t yet announce with whom we will be showing but hope to shortly.

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  1. Pixel Qi begins producing first batch of displays | ToGadget , The Guide to Gadgets said,

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  2. brianpeiris said,

    December 7, 2009 @ 4:13 am

    So much good news! Multi-touch! DIY orders! Awesome, I can’t wait.

  3. pepe said,

    December 7, 2009 @ 5:08 am

    That kind of complicates my plans to get me a nice ‘netvertible’ for christmas…

    I hope to hear about this “specialized tablet devices with multi-touch” soon, maybe it is an ebook reader with some basic web browsing etc?

  4. Pixel Qi in Multitouch Tablet — DisplayBlog said,

    December 7, 2009 @ 6:20 am

    [...] in Multitouch, Tablet PC, Touch Mary Lou Jepsen just updated her blog and shared that the first batch of Pixel Qi screens will be ready soon and that those will be integrated into “specialized tablet devices with multi-touch”. Hmm… a multitouch tablet. Pixel Qi will be at CES 2010 so maybe we can see a prototype then. Source: Pixel Qi [...]

  5. Pixel Qi ramping production lines, multitouch (40-hour?) tablets at CES | eMediaOne said,

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  6. johansosa said,

    December 7, 2009 @ 11:38 am

    I really hope that you guys allow DIY’ers to choose a custom aspect ratio. I want a 1:2 aspect ratio 5 to 6 inch display (diagonally) .. because that form factor fits in the pocket (assuming the bezel is very minimal) but still makes a usable tablet.

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  15. Yu said,

    December 7, 2009 @ 12:40 pm

    Tablets may be a nice thing, but it would appear to me, that manufacturers underestimate your technology’s potential for traditional productive mobile devices…

    Unless the devices come with keyboards, I’ll have to learn to tinker around with eletronics myself it seems.

    Even more a shame is they’ll come with multitouch. Resistive technology has better pen support from what I know and I never heard so far a resistive touch screen worked for multitouch.

  16. Pixel Qi ramping production lines, multitouch (40-hour?) tablets at CES | Dominic Fallows said,

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  19. Plothole said,

    December 7, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

    @Yu
    Conventional capacitive touch screens, the technology usually associated with multitouch, doesn’t support pen input at all. However I seem to recall a relatively new implementation of the technology that could. Conversely there are in fact resistive touch screens with multitouch support now. Though the latter seems less ideal than the former, since resistive has relatively poor transmissive properties.

  20. Pixel Qi Getting Screens Ready for “Specialized Tablets” | GottaBeMobile.com said,

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  21. PixelQi: Hybrid-Displays auch zum Nachrüsten » Allgemein, Zubehör » Netbux said,

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  29. Golem.de - IT-News für Profis said,

    December 7, 2009 @ 5:02 pm

    Erstes Pixel-Qi-Display kommt in ein Multitouchtablet…

    Pixel-Qi-Displays mit dem Namen 3qi sind sonnentauglich, energiesparend und günstig herzustellen, davon überzeugen können sich Anwender vermutlich schon im Januar 2010, denn die Firma macht Andeutungen zur CES erste Produkte ausstellen zu können….

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  41. PixelQi update: 3Qi display enters production | One Laptop per Child said,

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  45. Apple iTablet mit Pixel Qi Display? » eReader » lesen.net said,

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  49. Novas telas multi-touch da Pixel Qi aparentam ser ótimas para a nova tablet da Apple | MacMagazine said,

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  50. Lost my Kindle…what’s next? : Neal Harmon said,

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  51. tecosystems » My Last Laptop said,

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  53. pepe said,

    December 21, 2009 @ 7:26 pm

    It appears the first details are available on the tablet device:
    http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-tegra-android-smartpad-uses-pixel-qi-display-1866308/

    The hardware specs are amazing…and Android is Linux, so it appears its very hackable. I can’t wait to buy one of them, I hope there’re available ASAP after CES.

    My question to PixelQi: Is this thing using the “DCON” chip already? Some months ago you said that first generation will be without DCON, but this was with regards to usage with standard laptops..

  54. Tablet örület… « konnektor said,

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