IDTechEx Interviews Co-founder of Nemoptic About E-paper Display Technology

Competition, e-paper technologies

Jacques commented on the large visibility that E-Ink technology has received due to the number of companies that are using their technology for applications in e-book readers. According to Jacques, this is not direct competition to Nemoptic as the company is focusing on the niche market of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) and there are other serious competitors in that field: The all pervasive, simple "paper" as well as other existing electronic tags (e.g. segmented twisted nematic -TN tags) that are already very low cost. BiNem® technology displays fully graphical information while achieving competitive costs as this market and the technology is maturing. To put some numbers in the equation, Jacques stated: