AU Optronics one and a half times increases the production of screens for e-books

AU Optronics (AUO) partner in the production of e-book screens is rapidly increasing production in response to the growing demand for "readers". The demand for e-books has grown so much this year that SiPix Imaging, the manufacturer of screens for AUO, is already working at full capacity. Currently, the partners intend to expand production and open an outsourcing area in Linkou in Taiwan. AUO, one of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD screens, owns a 30% stake in SiPix Imaging, with which it carries out joint engineering work in the field of e-book technologies and screens. Currently, 20,000 matrices pass through the production capacity of SiPix in California 200,000 6-inch screens, i.e. on ten screens from one matrix. By October, experts from AUO and SiPix intend to increase production to 30,000 matrixes per month - respectively, 300,000 screens.

But even under these conditions, SiPix does not hope to meet the demand for screens for electronic readers, so by mid-2010, it intends to use AUO's plants in Linkou to produce another 70,000 matrixes per month. This will produce a million screens per month. And in the second half of next year, SiPix intends to release three million screens. The demand for e-books has grown largely due to the popularity of Kindle books from Amazon.com and Sony's Reader Digital Book. The “hoot” in Taiwan began in June after a Taiwanese book manufacturer under the Kindle trademark, Prime View International, acquired the American E-ink Corporation for $ 215 million.

via pcworld.com