Technology is growing at such a rapid pace that if you miss a day in the business then you might miss the next big thing and even more. With the way FETs, OLEDs and now FEDs are evolving constantly in to something bigger and better, it is hard to believe that the first commercial use of the plain LED was not too long ago. In fact, that technology has to still reach out to the majority of the world and it is ironic that majority of the world might miss them because better versions just came about far too quickly in to commercial use. Less than a year after it launched the world’s first OLED television, the XEL-1, Sony is looking to compete with an entirely different line of next-generation displays called FEDs.
Field Emission Display (FED) is not something that is all too surprising for those who have been in touch with the evolution of FETs and the technology might soon help save lives and even entertain you in your living rooms if all goes to plan. Sony affiliate Field Emission Technologies is set to begin mass-production of FED (field emission display) panels by the end of next year. Field Emission Technologies is in negotiation with Pioneer regarding mass-production of field emission displays and it has taken over Pioneer Plasma Factory in Western Japan already.
Where the XEL-1 measured just 11 inches across the diagonal, FET is aiming to produce 10,000 26-inch FED panels each year at the plant in Kagoshima. These will be for medical and broadcasting use first, but 60-inch consumer televisions may follow soon after. The technology is sure to be more energy efficient, cheap and also easy to put together than the OLED technology making it a something worth the wait.
