Company Profile
Company Overview
Founded in 1997 as a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab, E Ink Corporation is the world-leading developer and provider of electronic paper displays (EPD) to the market.
E Ink Corporation is the world's leading innovator of digital signage and electronic paper display technology (EPD). The company delivers its advanced display products to the world's most influential brands and manufactures, enabling them to install extremely durable, low power displays in previously impossible or unimaginable applications and environments.
With E Ink, prominent brands including Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Casio, Citizen, Lexar, Kobo, Motorola, Pricer, Samsung, Sony, and Yota Devices are able to bring to market new and exciting consumer and industrial products ranging from eReaders and mobile phones to electronic shelf labels, public information and promotional signs and smart watches.
Products made with E Ink electronic paper displays possess attributes that enable new advancements in the mobile electronics market:
A paper-like high contrast and appearance
Ultra-low power consumption
A thin, feather-light form.
Company History
E Ink has won a number of significant industry awards and has registered over 150 patents. In addition, E Ink has a history of world's firsts for the EPD industry:
1999 - printed display (with Lucent Technologies)
2000 - flexible display with plastic transistors
2001 - active matrix display
2002 - color active matrix display (with Philips and TOPPAN)
2004 - consumer application: Sony's ebook reader, LIBre
2006 - capacity meter display in a USB device by Lexar
2006 - display in a cellular phone by Motorola
2007 - 14.1-inch flexible color display (with L.G. Philips)
2007 - world's largest (40') active matrix EPD on glass (with Samsung)
2008 - magazine featuring E Ink in the cover (with Esquire)
2011 - 300 dpi EPD (with Epson)
2013 - first 3-pigment EPD for electronic shelf labels, Spectra
In 2009 E Ink Corporation was purchased by Prime View International (PVI), a leading small and medium sized TFT-LCD and electronic paper display (EPD) provider. PVI was subsequently renamed E Ink Holdings, Inc.
E Ink Holdings is now the world's largest supplier of EPD displays to the eReader market. For corporate information, please visit www.einkgroup.com; for EPD information, please visit www.eink.com / tw.eink.com; and for FFS information, please visit www.hydis.com.