The Necessity of Establishing E Ink Display Technology Software Ecosystem
The Development of Electronic Ink Display The development of electronic ink (electrophoretic ink, E Ink) display technology has a history of nearly 25 years. This technology was first invented by American physicist Joseph Jacobson and his team at the MIT Multimedia Lab in 1996. Later, his students established E Ink Corporation in 1997. At the beginning of the company, it partnered with Philips, but this technology did not have many applications at that time. So since 2005, Philips has sold its electronic paper business and the entire E Ink related patents to Taiwan's Yuantai (元太)Technology, which was originally named Prime View International in English and later it was renamed E Ink Holdings Inc. [ Note 1] . Since then, Yuantai continues to improve electronic ink technology. I first came across this technology when I visited the Taipei International Innovation and Invention Exhibition in 2007. I was very impressed by how energy-saving it was and it loo...
