Liquavista is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 company founded in 2006 as a spin-out from Philips

Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

. It develops colour e-paper video screens that can work with or without a backlight using electrowetting

Electrowetting

Electrowetting is the modification of the wetting properties of a surface with an applied electric field.-History:...

 technology. It has teamed up with Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...

 to combine Liquavista screens with TI's OMAP

OMAP

OMAP developed by Texas Instruments is a category of proprietary system on chips for portable and mobile multimedia applications. OMAP devices generally include a general-purpose ARM architecture processor core plus one or more specialized co-processors...

 processors in a portable media player or e-reader

E-reader

E-reader may refer to:* Nintendo e-Reader, a device made by Nintendo for its Game Boy Advance portable video game system* E-book reader, a device or computer program used for reading electronic books...

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In 2010 Liqavista began the final step in fully commercialising the technology as it sent out SDKs to OEMs

OEM

OEM means the original manufacturer of a component for a product, which may be resold by another company.OEM may also refer to:-Computing:* OEM font, or OEM-US, the original character set of the IBM PC, circa 1981...

. It is also working with Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic is a spin-off company from Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory and specializes in polymer transistors and electronics.The firm was founded in 2000....

 to create thin flexible newspapers.
In Dec. 2010, Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics and information technology company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul...

Co. Ltd acquired Liquavista B.V. for an undisclosed amount.
Liquavista anticipates the first e-book-reader using its electrowetting display panel to be available in the market by the middle of 2011.