E-INK thinking of investing ... Amazon

E-INK thinking of investing ... Amazon?

E-Ink is the largest producer of electronic ink screens mounted on the vast majority of e-reader on sale now in the world but also in Italy.

Digitimes reported by the news these days is that E-Ink has rented for the next 3 years some of the Asian production facilities CPT (Chunghwa Picture Tubes). It will ensure a substantial increase in production of panels for electronic ink in black and white and especially color, the latter already used by Hanvon (the main producer in China ebook reader).

What's more, utilizing the facilities will also produce LCD screens Fringe Field Switching (FFS or later) of the current best-performing LCDs. The SBB will be produced in two sizes: 10.1 inches - from next August - and 7-inch - in September.

E-Ink's move is in line with optimistic expectations for the sale of which he spoke this week Scott Liu, CEO of the company. The demand for electronic ink displays is increasing month on month :-) and also regarding the screens SBB forecasts are very positive. Considering that recent rumors on the Net indicate your E-Ink screen as a supplier of branded tablet Amazon, Secretary of State Liu has many reasons to be satisfied with the company and its investment in CPT is probably precisely targeted to support future significant sales of the tablets of the U.S. giant.

The tablet (or tablets) Amazon's talk about it for a long time. The timing of the transaction, price and technical characteristics of the device the company has not in any way pronounced. What is certain is that Amazon will come soon in this market and will do great as always.

This is confirmed by the recent inauguration of the Store for Android and applications of the Amazon Cloud Drive (a true online disk to store audio, video and music). In short, the landing was well prepared.

There is a good bet that the tablet will use Android as the operating system and native applications will be equipped with fully integrated multimedia services of Cloud Drive and, in general, with the entire online store.

Of all the articles that you can find on the Net on the subject want to report this Blog Kindle because, usually, is a trusted source.

What do you think? We love the idea of ​​a tablet might be used in combination with Amazon with the Kindle?