New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs 129
smartalix writes "Sharp Microelectronics has recently developed a new LCD substrate technology called Continuous-Grain Silicon (CG-Silicon), that enables device integration on a scale previously impossible. The technology enables the creation of System LCDs that integrate all driver and operation circuitry -- including digital logic, LCD driver, power supply, I/O interfaces, and signal-processing circuitry -- onto the glass itself. Eventually even the device's CPU will be included on the substrate. A key SLCD feature is the ability to dynamically control the resolution and color depth, providing output in multiple-resolution modes while lowering overall power consumption. A 3.7-in. SLCD created with CG-Silicon had a power consumption of 14 mW for color VGA, 8 mW for color QVGA, and 2 mW for monochrome QVGA. The first commercially available product that incorporates the System LCD architecture is Sharp's Zaurus SL-C700 PDA, recently released in Japan."
QVGA? (Score:3, Interesting)
Good news... (Score:5, Interesting)
If that's true, then it's about time. I can't count how many next-gen display technology announcements I've seen on
The fact that there's something already out there using it means that we're much more likely to see the technology become more widespread and adapted to other devices.
The future is HERE... again. (Score:4, Interesting)
Btw, a direct link to the news article is here [sharpsma.com]
superman! (Score:3, Interesting)
circutry on glass?
Sweet, so when can we have computers that come on crystals like in the superman movie.
Oooh, can the glass go transparent? I'd love a window that doubles as a computer. I bet it can't
Re:Good news... (Score:5, Interesting)
Also, what is right for the Japanese market is not always right over here. The way they use cell phones over there borders on some science-fiction movies, while companies are still trying to get online cell phone games to catch on over here.
Carppy transistors (Score:3, Interesting)
They were at the Async confrence and they were very intrested in doing everything asynchronously. It makes sence as implementing the logic in asynchronous circuits solves both problems.
Dynamic display power management - wow (Score:2, Interesting)
Of course, a flexible OLED would be great if it uses no more power and is flexible to boot.
Dara Parsavand
Cost? (Score:1, Interesting)
This is bad news... (Score:3, Interesting)
Even if current efforts such as Intel's HDCP [techweb.com] are flawed [securityfocus.com], future versions of these technologies may not be amenable to cryptographic attacks, and hardware based attacks will be extremely difficult if the circuitry is embedded in the screen itself.
This falls perfectly in line with the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group's [eff.org] desire to mandate implementation of a broadcast flag that all devices must honor.
Re:More info on power consumption (Score:2, Interesting)
These applications pushed the available architecture as far and as fast as they could. Then suddenly CPU cycles became massively abundant (FPS freaks will disagree but come on, how many GHz or even MHz do you need to write a essay) and interfaces became cluttered, background images for dialogue boxes and shiny glowing graphical buttons for each individual task started popping up all over that place.
I know, I know, there where bad applications back then, but the landscape seemed more abundant with good applications. Well I should quit typing before I sound like a complete raving old fart ("back when I was a kid..." ect ect)... to late.
-Jason
Re:Howzabout a foldable/rollable LCD? (Score:2, Interesting)