E Ink, the company that invented and produces the e-ink displays for Amazon, Sony, and others, was recently acquired for $US215 million—providing the means, said the company’s president, to keep colour e-ink displays on track for release in 2010.

The company that purchased E Ink is little-known (to me, anyway) Taiwanese company Prime View, which already assembles the parts produced by E Ink. We think 2010 might be a little optimistic for the actual production of colour e-ink, given what Amazon’s Jeff Bezos had to say on the matter, but it’d be nice to be wrong in this case. [Reuters]