There is no "other company".

E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds.

Even without the parents, building fabs and the film profitably without their secret sauce would be impossible.

It's kind of like the early days of OLED when Samsung was the only one who could fab the tech profitably.

> E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds.

fabs? Jesus H Christ. Based on just that one sentence, I can guarantee you have 0 experience and 0 direct knowledge of the display industry. Your statement is the equivalent to saying "Microsoft owns the parents (sp), the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality operating systems in good yelds (sp).

Would be nice if you also had an argument with your statement and not just mockery, to prove me wrong.

> Would be nice if you also had an argument with your statement and not just mockery, to prove me wrong.

So you make a massive unsubstantiated claim and I have to prove you wrong? I see the way your logic works.

Lets see.

You've made the claim that "E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds.".

So let me ask a simple question. Since you say E-ink owns all the fabs, can you show me the location of even one E-ink fab?

Here's a hint for the answer. E-Ink is a fabless company. That may confuse you so lets make it clearer. It means they don't have ANY fabs. In fact, I don't even know of even one electrophoretic material producer who has a fab.

Would you like to try again and provide a more accurate statement that reflects your level of ACTUAL knowledge of the display industry?

Mate, you're going completely off the rails and I'm not sure if you're actively trolling or are misinformed and in denial.

E-ink is a manufacturer of the E-ink pigment particles and the EPD film that's then sold to various display manufacturers where it gets sandwiched between glass, an ITO top electrode and a TFT bottom layer connected to a CoG (chip on glass), basically like any other LCD TFT display but instead of liquid crystal you have the famous patented E-ink pigment.

Those EPD display manufacturers all depend on buying the e-ink film manufactured by E-ink, at their fab in ... drum-roll ... Taiwan (big surprise). None of these EPD display company could make displays by themselves without the film they buy from E-ink.

Just read their website [1] and article [2] before spewing more nonsense

[1] "E Ink manufacturers a number of EPD films, with different attributes depending on application needs"

[1] https://www.eink.com/e-ink-film.html

[2] " As part of E Ink’s manufacturing process, microcapsules of ink coat plastic film. The film is then dried, inspected, rerolled, and sent on for further processing."

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-e-ink-developed-full-color-epa...

"Those EPD display manufacturers all depend on buying the e-ink film manufactured by E-ink, at their fab in ."

You think a film is manufactured at a fab? Do you even know what a fab is? Did you think a fab was like a manufacturing plant with vats of liquids? Jesus H Christ.

There are other companies now. Plastic Logic and OED are two I know of.

I checked them out and as far as I could tell, both are making displays based on E-ink's film. E-ink is also a major shareholder of Plastic Logic.

As I was saying, E-ink is the only game in town making the film. All the others are making displays based on it.

> both are making displays based on E-ink's film

Jesus H Christ. Sigh... Just have a google again on OED and at least read the first page of their website properly. It is clear to me the level of confidence in your claims corresponds inversely with the level of accuracy of the facts.

You claimed OED buys E-Ink films. Please prove that with some evidence.

Go ahead and google your heart out. You don't work in the display industry which is why you don't know the well known fact that OED is a competitor of E-Ink. They both produce electrophoretic films.

What you said is literally the equivalent of saying Coca Cola buys its secret syrup from Pepsi.

It is so ridiculous. And yet HN is filled with your level of comments on electrophoretics.

Not really. I'm pretty sure e-ink tech is still patented. There are some similar options like DES used in the maybe vaporware Reinkstone.