Future Electronics and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)
sign an Americas Distribution Agreement
MONTREAL, QUEBEC (December 10, 2009) - Future Electronics and Toshiba America
Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that both companies have
signed an agreement for distribution of Toshiba display products in the United States,
Canada and Mexico. Under the terms of this agreement, Future Electronics will
distribute Toshiba’s full line of TFT Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs).
“We're confident that this new relationship will add significant value to our current
display offering,” said Bruce Jones, executive vice president of Worldwide Corporate
Marketing. “Many of our customers’ applications require a ruggedized LCD with long
life, which Toshiba can provide for them.”
Future’s strong application engineering, marketing, integration capabilities and
supply chain management provides Toshiba with the opportunity to offer the highest
level of service to customers across the territory.
“Combining TAEC’s extensive display offering with Future’s Display Solutions
integration capabilities is a winning strategy for our customers,” states Sean Collins,
vice president, Display Devices and Components Business Unit for TAEC.
“It results in a long-term, quality solution that meets all of their LCD display
requirements.”
About Future Electronics’ Display Solutions Group
Future Electronics’ Display Solutions Group is a world-class leader and innovator in
the Distribution, Marketing, and Technical Solution Support of Liquid Crystal Display
(LCD) Solutions for customers of all sizes worldwide. Our experienced and
knowledgeable team can provide any display solution from smaller projects to larger
fully integrated finished solutions.
For additional information please visit:
http://www.futureelectronics.com.
TAEC LCD Products
Toshiba displays feature LTPS technology, which enables LCDs that are significantly
thinner and lighter in weight and with higher-resolution than previous generations.
LTPS technology reduces energy consumption for lower operating costs and longer
operating life for battery powered applications. For industrial applications, the LCD
modules now offer long-life, light-emitting diode (LED) backlight systems with a
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)1 of 100,000 hours. The series includes eight
new LCD products, available in four screen sizes: 5.7-inch, 8.4-inch, 10.4-inch, and
12.1-inch. Display resolutions are QVGA (320 x 240) and VGA (640 x 480) for the
5.7-inch module, and SVGA (800 x 600) and XGA (1024 x 768) for the three larger
sizes. For additional information on Toshiba’s displays please visit:
www.lcd.toshiba.com
*About TAEC
Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable
electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading
designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs,
CMs, distributions and fabless chip companies worldwide. A committed electronic
components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memorybased storage solutions, discrete devices, displays, advanced materials, medical
tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, digital multimedia and imaging products,
microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today’s leading cell
phones, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics and more.
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating
company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation,
Japan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world’s third largest
semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2008 WW Semiconductor Revenue Estimate,
Dec. 2008). For additional company and product information, please visit
http://www.toshiba.com/taec/.
1
The MTBF (Mean Time between Failures) is not a guarantee or estimate of product life; it is a statistical value
related to mean failure rates for a large number of products which may not accurately reflect actual
operation. Actual operating life of the product may not resemble the MTBF.