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New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs
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."
... I think I'd rather have a CDL than an LCD.
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okay great. now my LCD can think for itself.
but what ever happened to OLEDs & flexible LCDs?
Practical uses of this new technology include drawing the layman a picture detailed enough to explain it...
Oooh circuitry on the lcd panel itself. Does that mean that I'll get floating point errors and gp's if I press the glass to see the pretty colors?
See, over here it's a Quarter VGA with cheese, but in France they call that a Royale with Cheese.
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LCD driver, power supply, I/O interfaces CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not touch the screen.
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>Sweet, so when can we have computers that come on crystals like in the superman movie.
Uhhh, so silicon is, uhh like, already a crystal, or something...
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If your wife had an LCD Display on her back, you could watch football while you made love to her from behind, or watch pr0n, or something equally appalling. How cool would that be?!!!
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
"v-paper" eh?
I suggest the brand name 'Vaper'.
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