Abstract
This paper focuses on the relationship between ITRI and Taiwan’s Flat Panel Display Industry. The author separates the history to three periods to review. In the first period (from 1987 to 1996), ITRI was the first institute of Taiwan to research TFT LCD technologies and developed 10.4” TFT LCD successfully. In the second period (from 1997 to 2000), many Taiwan manufacturers engaged into large scale TFT LCD industry. ITRI developed lots of proactive technologies, such as LTPS TFT LCD, OLED etc. Besides, ITRI assisted many corporations and the industry alliance, TTLA, to set up. In the last period (from 2001 to 2006), ITRI did its best to impel many research alliances to build, like TDMDA and FEIA etc. In 2006, ITRI restructured its organization and set up the Display Technology Center (DTC). The Display Technology Center integrates all the resources of ITRI and the projects of the display technologies. In the future, DTC will continue developing flexible display technologies and be the leader of the Taiwan’s Flat Panel Displays industry.