They're definitely a small company, but they're obviously not a "startup". Their main strength is the display technology engineering that they do. Many people don't realize that in addition to the iLiad and DR1000, a lot of the other manufacturers devices (kindle, PRS-500, etc) have iRex hardware in them. That's why they are the only ones with an 8" and 10.2" display. They work closely with PVI during the engineering of most of the eInk displays, and can design special ones for their own devices. Most consumers aren't aware of that because it's behind the scenes, so we tend to forget how much iRex has been involved with eInk technology in general. As to their software development, I don't really know how many people they have, but I do get the impression that it's a pretty small team. I don't know if it's necessarily "two guys in a back room"... it might be three. 来源：http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=342398&postcount=79
一如预期，周三在纽约佩斯大学(Pace Univeristy)举行的发布会上，亚马逊CEO 杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeffrey P. Bezos)推出了更大屏幕的 Kindle DX . 10寸屏市场终于来了一个竞争者。
昨天，E-Ink公司宣布将被台湾显示器制造商元太科技（Prime View International）收购，收购价为2.15亿美元。 台湾元太科技公司现在是E Ink生产电子纸显示屏的合作伙伴。元太科技目前已经在为亚马逊Kindle和索尼Reader制造屏幕，而且还自称是全球最大的电子纸（e-paper）显示模块制造商。对E Ink的收购将帮助元太科技在这一新兴市场中获得更多的市场份额。元太科技表示，自己与E Ink目前总共为全球近20家电子书厂商供货。 据悉，如果该交易得以顺利通过，就将于今年10月最终完成。元太科技曾于2005年收购了飞利浦电子（Philips Electronics）旗下的电子纸业务。 E-Ink负责市场营销的副总裁Sriram Peruvemba表示，合并之后的新公司有望研发彩色显示屏，并在明年实现量产。目前，该公司主要生产Kindle和索尼阅读器所用的灰度显示屏。 E Ink公司最初分拆自麻省理工学院，已经从投资商那里获得了1.5亿美元资金，投资人包括英特尔、摩托罗拉和报业巨头赫斯特公司。该公司尚未上市，一季度的收入为1800万美元，，同比增幅高达157%, 是否盈利不得而知。 E Ink的总部仍将继续留在美国马萨诸塞州剑桥市，并计划在2009年内将员工总数由127人扩充至150人。 自1997年以来，E Ink总共融资1.5亿美元，其投资者包括英特尔、摩托罗拉、飞利浦、赫斯特互动传媒（Hearst Interactive Media）以及日本TOPPAN Printing。 “当前市场对数字墨水技术最迫切的需求是颜色，丰富的色彩，但我们没有足够的资源去开发它，”E Ink 的市场营销副总裁斯利拉姆·佩鲁文巴(Sriram Peruvemba)表示：“这次收购将给予我们所需的人力资源和资金。” 被收购后的 E Ink 公司总部仍将设在马萨诸塞州的剑桥市。该公司当前拥有大约 130 名员工，正计划新增 18 名员工，包括化学工程师。元泰科技是台北市的一家公司，该公司主要制造驱动 E Ink 显示屏独立像素的电子元件。自 05 年元泰科技收购了飞利浦的 ePaper 资产之后，就与 E Ink 展开了紧密合作。此外，元泰科技也制造液晶显示屏。 斯利拉姆预计，公司大约在明年就能推出可以显示丰富颜色的静态数字墨水显示屏。他还预计，到 2011 年数字墨水技术应该可以显示彩色动态的视频。 尽管本周在台北举行的 Computex 展销会上，E Ink 演示了一款可以显示多种颜色的数字墨水设备原型，但目前的显示质量仍不足以吸引消费者和内容供应商。“当前的颜色水准用来显示广告还可以，但还不能用来显示软件应用，”斯利拉姆：“那需要极高的像素密度，就像 OLED 显示屏那样。” 此外，E Ink 面临的挑战还有，不能丧失掉自己当前在低耗能和阅读的舒适性方面的优势。
E-reader manufacturer iRex have announced that they intend to have a color, writable ebook reader on the market by 2011. The device, which is currently unnamed, will use a system of subtractive color mixing which, according to iRex, results in three times the brightness of existing additive color electrophoretic displays. Details on the subtractive e-ink technology are scant, but it is compared to physical printing whereby colors act as filters to absorb portions of white light striking them and reflect back the desired hue. The additive system, meanwhile, mixes together backlit or illuminated colors to create hues, often requiring filters that can reduce overall quality. iRex believe that their subtractive e-ink displays will offer print-quality visuals to magazines and other full-color publications, and push them ahead of the crowd. Meanwhile color e-paper producers have reportedly delayed their launches to 2010, in the face of technical issues.
Amazon Kindle DX卖到断货。 它的量太大。性价比优于iRex DR1000S。 相信iRex已经感受到压力。 唯一的问题是，10寸屏真的已经够大。手持阅读的话，更是如此。 Kindle DX多几排键盘，估计手持有点累。