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AmCham Technology Committee Luncheon -Avoiding Smoking Craters: Innovating In LCD Display Technology PDF Print E-mail

Date: Thursday, 15 December 2011

Innovation in display technology generally takes two forms:
1) The creation of an incrementally better HDTV using the hundred billion dollar a year LCD manufacturing infrastructure
2) Cooking up new molecules and entirely new factories that consume hundreds of millions of dollars and swallow decades, becoming smoking craters of investment.

Neither generate true innovation and a path to profit. We are trying a third way: using the LCD Fab as a chip designer would use a silicon Fab. No process changes, but clever design of each mask and layer and film to create radically new display system performances. The presentation will discuss the innovative products we have built and the challenges of working with this very mature and capital-intensive infrastructure.

About the Speaker:

mlj_portrait_clean.jpgDr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the CEO and Founder of Pixel Qi Corporation, a high tech Taiwan/USA startup. She is a technology leader known for her inventions, for the creation and leverage of small but powerful teams, and for the negotiation of insertion of those teams at effective levels in the Asian manufacturing structure to deliver innovative product to mass production quickly with minimal cost. She has maintained a deep contributory role in display and device architecture inception while demonstrating a broad strength in innovative technology management.

She has received numerous awards for her work, notably: The Optical Society (OSA) has awarded her the 2011 Edwin Land Medal (Edwin Land founded the Polaroid Corporation and this medal is awarded to the scientist/entrepreneur who best emulates his work), and Anita Borg Institute awarded her its 2011 award for Innovation in Computer Science. Time Magazine honored her in 2008 with induction into its TIME 100 list, naming her one of the 100 most influential people in the world for her work in creating One Laptop per Child and the $100 laptop and IEEE awarded her and her company Pixel Qi its 2010 ACE award for most important emerging technology (where she and her company Pixel Qi won out over both Google and IBM).

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