Taipei, Taiwan, May 20, 2002 – Today NESO Technology Inc., a manufacturer of high-end monitors, began shipping a 15-inch LCD monitor, model number LD 500. This 15-inch LCD monitor features MVA (multi-domain vertical alignment), an enhancement of the liquid crystal mode, and known as vertical alignment (VA).

In VA, as the name suggests, the molecules of liquid crystal are normally aligned at right angles to the substrates, swinging through 90 to lie parallel with the substrates in the presence of an electromagnetic field.

In utilizing the VA mode LC in conjunction with a technique of aligning crystals at a sub-pixel level, UV light is used instead of the more usual rubbing. The technique involves the addition of pyramid-shaped protrusions within each LC cell, the surface of which each make up a separate “domain” in which the LCs are aligned differently from those in the other domains.

The result is an all-round increase in viewing angle with no variation in color tone as the viewing angle increase and, requiring no rubbing, a simplified manufacturing process with a reduction in the possibility of LC contamination. NESO employs this sophisticated technique in its LD 500 monitor, which produces a viewing angle of 160 in all directions with a high contrast ratio of 500:1 and brightness rated at 250 nits.

The LD 500 comes optionally with a multi-layer glass filter to protect the LCD screen and increase viewing comfort. Another feature of the LD 500 is its elegantly designed stand. The stand allows adjustment of the tilt-angle of the monitor to increase desktop space to the maximum.

NESO has gained the backing of the eminent companies from a broad range of industry segments, all sharing the goal of reinvigorating the monitor market with innovation products that combine uncompromising quality, top performance, and value-added features.

NESO is to exhibit this product in suite No. 1314 of the Grand Hyatt Hotel during Computex. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.neso.com.tw

For further information, please contact NESO Technology by telephone at (886-2) 8228-1588, by fax at (886-2) 8228-1599, or on the Web at http://www.neso.com.tw.