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Lyon, June 7th, 2004
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) to provide Varioptic’s liquid
lenses for the mobile phones and PDA market
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) to provide Varioptic’s liquid
lenses for the mobile phones and PDA market Lyon, June 7th, 2004 - Samsung
Electro-Mechanics Co (SEMCO - www.sem.samsung.com),
a major global player in electronic components industry, and Varioptic
(www.varioptic.com), a pioneer
in electrowetting technology today announce a worldwide licence for SEMCO
to manufacture and sale the advanced liquid lenses based on Varioptic’s
patented technology, now applied to SEMCO’s auto focused camera
modules. This worldwide product license agreement will enable Semco to
offer auto-focus functions for high resolution camera modules in the mobile
industry. A collaborative agreement was previously signed on March 18th,
2004.
Varioptic’s technology is the result of a 10 years research at
Université Joseph Fourier and at Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Lyon. The founder and inventor of the technology is Bruno Berge, former
research scientist at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and
then professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
« SEMCO has chosen Varioptic as a technology source of liquid
lens, which provide unique strength of auto-focus function for high resolution
camera module in the mobile industry. With this technology, we are developing
camera modules targeting for mobile phone and PDA for the world-class
mobile phone companies » declare Mr. Hong, V.P. de SEMCO.
“We are happy to see our previous agreement becoming real”
says Etienne Paillard, Directeur Général de Varioptic S.A.
“This new announcement, daring to take brand-new technology into
SEMCO’s camera module products allows us to turn the electrowetting
theory and technology into actual products rapidly. We are extremely pleased
to partner with SEMCO, a major player in the industry with extremely strong
manufacturing capability and commercial presence worldwide.
About Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.
Since its foundation in 1973 as a subsidiary of Samsung Group in the
electronic industry, Samsung Electro-Mechanics has positioned one of the
leaders of the electronic field in 21st century. With the beginning of
a new area, the company is focusinf on digital components for mobile industry
as a “solution provider”. For further information, please
visit the website : www.sem.samsung.com
About Varioptic
Founded in 2002, Varioptic pioneers the development of Electrowetting
Technology for revolutionary Auto Focus lenses and Zooms with absolutely
no moving parts. These products feature several crucial advantages versus
traditional technologies in terms of cost, dimensions, power consumption
and speed. Varioptic maintains its technology leadership thanks to its
heavy investment in R&D. Varioptic is located in Lyon (France) and
headed by Etienne Paillard, CEO and founder and inventor Bruno Berge (CTO)
. For more information, please visit www.varioptic.com.
Press Contact:
Isabelle Jourdain
Communications Manager, Varioptic
[email protected]
Phone : +33 1 48 25 57 26 or +33 6 87 71 20 95
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