E-ink Holdings has announced that its revenues for April 2011 were only around 3 quarters that of March 2011. April consolidated revenues were NT$2.465 billion (US$84 million), which is also an increase of 45.41% over April 2010.  Combined revenues for the first 4 months of 2011 were up 87% over 2010, according to the company.

The drop in revenue is attributed to  shipment delays. Hydis Technologies, E-ink’s LCD subsidiary, has delayed some shipments of FFS panels to the third quarter of 2011.

I wonder who is not getting the screens? Amazon, B&N (NookColor), who?

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Sriram  Peruvemba, the VP of Marketing at E-ink, stopped by the CNet offices yesterday . He showed off how thin and flexible the E-ink screen can be and give a few updates on the state of E-ink’s next generation screen. it won’t be coming out until 2012.

Oh, well. I guess we’ll have to content ourselves with E-ink’s other screen tech. Have you seen the NookColor? Its screen is based on FFS technology that was developed by Hydis, an E-ink subsidiary. Now, the actual screen was made by LG Display, but it licensed the  tech from E-ink.

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E-ink Holdings has released its financial reports for the first quarter 2011, and the news is good.

Revenues for March were up 18% over February at NT$3.36 billion, and that’s also about 80% more than March 2010. Revenues for the first 3 months of 2011 were NT$10.09 billion, which is about double the revenue from Q1 2010.

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The above image is supposed to be an animated gif, and the animation shows off a new type of screen made by E-ink.

Taiwan based Sino Pac Bank and the Miramar department store are using E-ink’s SURF screen to promote their new credit card offer, and it’s not the usual E-ink screen that you might find on a eReader.

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For the first time ever, E-ink has released some solid data on how many screens it has made.  E-ink Holdings held a shareholders meeting this week, and the CEO answered several questions from the attendees. According to sources, E-ink produced 10 million epaper screens in 2010.

E-ink is also going to expand its upstream e-ink capacity, coating production processes, and its rear-section module plant in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. It’s new production goal is 25 million screens.

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E-ink Holding,, maker of the E-ink screen technology, released its financial results for 2010 this week. Sales for 2010 totaled NT$ 25.2 billion, which is up 57% over that of 2009. Net income for 2010 was after tax of NT$4 billion, another record high.

This news comes shortly after Samsung formally opened its new screen tech R&D center in the Netherlands, which brings another heavyweight into the industry. With  AUO supporting Sipix, Qualcomm and Mirasol, Bridgestone with its QR-LPD, 2011 looks like ot could be an interesting year for screen tech.

And don’t forget Pixel Qi, which has already taken a strong lead over its bigger and better financed competitors.

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This beauty was posted to the Yanko Design blog. It’s a concept watch,which means they don’t plan to produce it. The design was created to explore an idea of using E-ink for the face of a watch.

This watch is a double-down in that it uses E-ink to for both form and function, allowing the bold and radical lines to make the watch beautiful and very readily visible. This watch is made of glossy black metal, embellished with small chrome parts.The display is adjusted with two buttons along the left side of the watch. The bottom display is the lighter gray of the background being used as the numbers display with the black merging with the black of the watch metal. Blasting off into hard bold, bold space with a metal stone.

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Bookeen posted this 19 second clip on its blog today. I think this could be the highest frame rate I’ve ever seen on an E-ink screen, but don’t plan on seeing an e-reader with this ability any time soon.  When the refresh rate is this fast, E-ink actually consumes more battery life than LCD.

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AUO, manufacturer and developer of screen tech, released some details today on how many Sipix screens it made last year. According to my source, AUO made 400,000 Sipix screens, which gave it about a 4% share of the 10 million epaper screens made last year. The other 90% plus was made by E-ink, of course. AUO also stated that it expects to ship between 3.2 and 4 million screens in 2011.

The Sipix screen was originally supposed to be released in April, but it was delayed until August due to quality control issues. It was widely touted as being a competitor to E-ink screens, but I don’t think that will happen. The Sipix screen is a noticeably inferior product when compared to an E-ink screen. This is a topic I’ve covered before (over on my blog), so I won’t repeat myself here.

So, AUO believes that E-ink made nearly 10 million screens last year. I believe them. This niche in the screen industry is small enough that they all have a good idea about what the other is doing.

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E-ink Corp, maker of the screens used in the Kindle, Sony, and other ereaders, released a report today on its January revenues.  In spite of predictions that tablets would kill off ereaders, E-ink revenues were NT$3.88 billion ($134.21 million USD) for January 2011, up 5% from December and 147% on year.

This is a fairly good increase considering that considering that E-ink’s total revenues for last year were NT$25.18 billion. I’m expecting E-ink to continue to increase this coming year; they don’t have any real competition yet from Mirasol, Pixel Qi, or Liquavista.

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