October 2022

According to reports, Huawei filed a lawsuit against Amazon and its hardware partner Compal Electronics, saying that Amazon's Kindle being produced in China infringe upon Huawei's E Ink patents.

It is revealed that Huawei sold over 110,000 units of its MatePad Paper device in just 2 months, surpassing Amazon's Kindle sales in the same period. Amazon announced plans to withdraw from the local market in China earlier this year.

The McLaren F1 team have placed a small E Ink display on the cockpit of its racing car, as it aims to replace the current sticker-based advertising with something more dynamic and sophisticated.

The integrator is a company called Seamless Digital. This project will enable to rotate advertisers without removing stickers, and sell smaller ad packages (i.e. you can endorse just one 'lap') which may increase revenue.

The ePaper industry and market, led by E Ink, is facing high demands and we are seeing a host of new devices and solutions based on ePaper displays. Here are some recent and popular news that you may find of interest:

• Amazon launches a 10.2-inch eNote/eReader device
• E Ink to adopt Sharp's IGZO backplane in future eReader and eNote displays
• E Ink to spend around $110 million to expand its production facilities
• reMarkable sold over a million E Ink tablets, raises funds
• E Ink announces the improved Gallery 3 ACeP color ePaper display
• E Ink announces a new five-color ePaper display for retail applications
• Reflective LCD developer Azumo raised $30 million
• Is Apple testing color E Ink displays for future foldable phones and tablets?
• E Ink launches Gallery Plus ACeP displays with improved colors and contrast
• E Ink shows foldable and rollable ePaper displays
• Is Amazon developing a foldable E Ink Kindle device?
• Plastic Logic's 2.1" flexible color (ACeP) display panel is now available

Several years ago US-based Reviver Auto developed E Ink based car plates, called the RPlate pro, that can show customized messages when the car is parked, and also can update plates without delay. In 2018, several states in the US started testing the digital plates.

Towards the end of September 2022, California issued a new law, AB 984, which makes E Ink displays a legal alternative to standard metal plates. There are some conditions to the use of the display. The only company that got approved to is indeed Reviver Auto.