eMagin
eMagin is an American-operations company that makes microdisplays. eMagin's microdisplays are OLED. It is fully owned by Samsung.
eMagin was sold to Samsung for about $200 million.
eMagin was the first company to develop an OLED on silicon display.[1]
eMagin has never sold a QSXGA microdisplay.
eMagin's strategy has been to get its silicon backplane wafers processed by a different company, then bring them into its facility in New York and do the OLED deposition there.[2] eMagin has claimed that it has at least once gotten backplanes from a silicon foundry in the USA.[3]
eMagin was originally founded by Gary Jones in 1992.[4]
eMagin's primary contribution is its OLED-on-silicon microdisplay technology. Many of eMagin's displays are in military products.
Products[edit]
- SVGA+ Rev2 XL[5]
- SVGA+ Rev3 XL Series, available in full color, or white monochrome, or green monochrome.[5]
- SXGA-096 OLED-XL[6]
- Z800 3DVisor
eMagin's SVGA+ is a resolution slightly larger than a standard SVGA display.[5]
Partnerships[edit]
eMagin is the supplier of OLED microdisplays for the F-35 fighter jet helmet to Collins Aerospace.[7] eMagin's displays are also in the ProView SO-35.
eMagin is a supplier to THEON, providing most OLED displays used in THEON's products, including A.R.M.E.D. products.[8]
eMagin likely supplied OLED displays to Vuzix for their Tac-Eye LT monocular head-mounted display product around 2011.[9]
History[edit]
eMagin was founded in 1992, and was originally named FED Corporation. It was founded by Gary Jones, a former engineer at Texas Instruments (TI). Prior to founding FED, Mr. Jones managed both TI's semiconductor manufacturing and research and development programs.[10] FED was an abbreviation for Field Emitter Displays, which is the type of display the company originally focused on.[11] It was based in New York. FED Corp was a manufacturer of miniature flat-panel displays. It was then legally incorporated as a Delaware corporation in 1993.[12]
Transition to OLED[edit]
The company transitioned from FEDs to OLED displays. It licensed OLED flat panel display technology from Eastman Kodak in about 1999.[11]
FED Corp's website in 1999 was at fedcorporation.com.[13]
FED Corporation acquired Virtual Vision, based in Redmond, WA, in 1998. Virtual Vision was a manufacturer of video headset systems with strong expertise in integrated optics systems.[14]
Legally, the eMagin Corporation was created through the merger of a holding company called FDC, which was organized on January 23, 1996 as a Nevada company, and FED Corporation.[15] FDC's only purpose was to be part of the reverse-merger. On March 16, 2000, FDC and FED Corporation merged, and the merged company changed its name to eMagin Corporation.
In 2001, eMagin created the world's first full-color active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display.[16]
In 2004, Gary Jones retained his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors.[10] In 2004, Gary Jones owned about 13 percent of eMagin Corporation, and Stillwater LLC owned 20 percent.[10]
2010s and 2020s[edit]
Andrew Sculley was CEO of eMagin from about 2008 to 2025, up until the sale to Samsung.[17]
Manufacturing[edit]
eMagin's microdisplay manufacturing and R&D operations have been co-located with IBM on its campus in East Fishkill, New York.[18]
See also[edit]
- Microoled, a French microdisplay company
- List of eMagin displays
References[edit]
- ↑ "IBM / eMagin Press Release". https://web.archive.org/web/20001216181800if_/http://www.fedcorporation.com/pribm.htm.
- ↑ "eMagin shows 2K x 2K OLED microdisplays at Display Week 2019". 2024-03-06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcNQHeI31OE.
- ↑ Web, Web. "eMagin". https://www.emagin.com/news/press-releases/news-2018/182-emagin-receives-defense-manufacturing-technology-achievement-award.
- ↑ "Executive Management Changes at eMagin". https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046995/000101376207000086/ex991.htm.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "SVGA+ Rev3 XL Series User Specification". https://www.emagin.com/images/products/svga/datasheets/SVGA_Rev3_XL_User_Manual_Datasheet_Rev_5.pdf.
- ↑ https://www.tekgear.com/sxga-096-green-oled-xl.html
- ↑ "The US Navy placed a $347 million order to replace the F-35 helmets, to adopt OLED microdisplays in the new design". 2023-08-31. https://www.oled-info.com/us-navy-placed-347-million-order-replace-f-35-helmets-adopt-oled-microdisplays.
- ↑ "ΤHEON announces new strategic US and European investments and partnerships". 2025-08-11. https://live.euronext.com/en/products/equities/company-news/2025-08-11-theon-announces-new-strategic-us-and-european-investments.
- ↑ "Vuzix Tac-Eye LT". https://www.oled-info.com/vuzix-tac-eye-lt.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "eMagin Corporation 2004 NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING AND PROXY STATEMENT". https://emagin.com/images/financials/Final_Proxy_2004.pdf.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Numbers, The (1999-03-02). "FED licenses FPD technology from Eastman Kodak". https://www.eetimes.com/fed-licenses-fpd-technology-from-eastman-kodak/.
- ↑ Therein., Reference (2006-10-20). "EMAGIN CORPORATION Form DEF 14A". https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046995/000101376206001946/form14a.htm.
- ↑ "FED Corporation Home Page". https://web.archive.org/web/19991105232545if_/http://www.fedcorporation.com:80/.
- ↑ "Press Release: Kodak and FED Corporation Announce OLED Technology Licensing Agreement". https://web.archive.org/web/19991108200454if_/http://www.fedcorporation.com/prkodak.htm.
- ↑ Of, Way (2007-07-23). "eMagin Corporation Form S-1". https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046995/000101376207001322/forms1.htm.
- ↑ https://www.aviseanalytics.com/can-emagin-capitalize-on-the-burgeoning-ar-vr-opportunities/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131226193708/http://www.emagin.com/company/management/
- ↑ "eMagin Corporation Fourth Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and Conference Call to Be Held Wednesday, March 16, 2011". 2011-03-03. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110303006062/en/eMagin-Corporation-Fourth-Quarter-2010-Earnings-Release-and-Conference-Call-to-Be-Held-Wednesday-March-16-2011.