Press Release

E INK LAUNCHES ELECTRONIC PAPER PROTOTYPE KITS

Lets Engineers Easily Design a Handheld Device Using an Electronic Paper Display

Cambridge, MA. - September 27, 2005 – E Ink Corporation, the leading source of electronic paper display (EPD) technology, today announced that it will offer samples of electronic paper displays through the AM-100 EPD Prototype Kit, enabling prototyping across a wide range of display applications. The high-resolution display in this kit is bright, high-contrast, thin, lightweight, viewable from all angles and able to operate with dramatically less energy than liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

"If your job is to design a product with a battery and a display, then you need to understand what an electronic paper display can do for you," said Russ Wilcox, CEO at E Ink. "The best way to do that is to buy this kit and try it out for yourself."

This is the first high-resolution developer kit that contains a graphical electronic paper display. E Ink's EPD technology offers the bright, bold look of ink-on-paper and is ideal for mobile devices because it can be read in any lighting condition, including direct sunlight, and at any viewing angle - just like paper. A resolution of 170 pixels per inch (PPI) and the capability of displaying four gray levels give this 6" diagonal display text quality with the clarity of newsprint. Once updated, the display image remains visible without energy, so the power draw of the display is reduced by up to 99% compared to traditional LCDs.

"This kit has all the essential tools for building innovative product prototypes using an electronic paper display," explained Ryosuke Kuwada, vice president of sales and marketing at E Ink. "Product companies are discovering they can move to bigger screens, and at the same time, reduce the product weight because of the power savings."

In addition to the display module, the kit also includes a development board containing an Intel XScale processor and the Linux operating system, as well as I/O support for MMC cards, Bluetooth, and USB, and open source software drivers and applications.

"Controlling your new electronic paper screen from a desktop PC would be really limiting," explained Holly Gates, senior electrical engineer at E Ink. "Most of our customers want to make working prototypes that are portable. So we put the control electronics onto a tiny board you can slip right into your own casing and operate from batteries. Product engineers could easily build their own electronic reader with this kit."

High-resolution electronic paper displays are created using an E Ink® Imaging Film which is then laminated to a glass-based thin film transistor (TFT). The result is an EPD module that is sold to innovative product companies. E Ink has partnered with Prime View International (PVI) of Taiwan as the leading supplier of active matrix display modules. High volume purchases of displays will be sold directly by PVI.

Products using E Ink's high-resolution display technology were first launched in April 2004 by SONY Corporation in its LIBRIé electronic book device, available in Japan. In addition to SONY, Seiko, Citizen and Microsoft have used E Ink's EPD technology in innovative applications.

E Ink has active customers in the areas of electronic readers, watches, clocks and signs. Future uses for E Ink's technology include smartcards, medical devices, portable consumer electronics, and mobile phones.

About E Ink Holdings
Founded in 1992 by Taiwan's leading papermaking and printing group YFY (1907.TW), E Ink Holdings Inc. "E Ink" (8069.TW) is the pioneer of TFT and ePaper business in Taiwan. Its corporate philosophy aims to deliver revolutionary products, user experiences, and environmental benefits through advanced technology development. This vision has led to its continuous investments in the field of ePaper display as well as its 2008 acquisition of Hydis Technologies, manufacturer of the world's best wide viewing angle LCDs and its 2009 acquisition of E Ink Corp., the worldwide leader in ePaper. Listed in Taiwan's GreTai Securities Market and the Luxembourg market, E Ink is now the world's largest supplier of displays to the eBook market. For corporate information, please visit www.einkgroup.com; for EPD information, please visit www.eink.com / tw.eink.com; and for FFS information, please visit www.hydis.com.