Samsung has confirmed that they’ve bought the Dutch-based display technology firm Liquavista. Liquavista is a spin-out from Phillips Research Labs and specializes in display technology named Electrowetting (EWD). The EWD is known to work in transmissive, reflective, transparent and transflective modes and offer picture quality at par with LCDs at very low power consumption, which is just 10 percent of the battery power consumed by today’s LCDs.
The Electrowetting Display is also useful for e-paper applications that enables color video with a response time of more than 70 times than current reflective displays.
Samsung plans to use the EWD in e-book readers, mobile phones and other mobile devices.
You can read more about the display at the link below.
Dear Kunal,
Hi, I am an investment assistant working for a VC fund in Guangzhou, China. I wonder how Liquavista is doing right now in 2021. Is that any possibility that Samsung could not find a way to industrialize the EWD product? And why is that we have not yet come to see any EWD display terminal product in last 10 years?
Cuz another professor from Phillips Research Labs had reached to us and seek for investment. But we are skeptical about EWD tech.
Looking forward to your reply!
Shawn Huang
Hi Shawn,
You are right! However, Samsung seems to have sold the company to Amazon a couple of years later.
https://lookgadgets.com/liquavista/