Intel To Produce Cheap LCoS Chips

SeattleGameboy writes "NY Times has an article about Intel's plan to produce low-cost liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) chips. This could result in high-resolution 7"-thick rear-projection TV costing around $1000 by next Christmas (not to mention cheap projectors). I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ..."

Comments

Oops,

[ActionPlant]

I'd be go do some retractions to my christmas wishlist.

A year? That's not so long to wait. Then again, it's been how many years.

It's about time. Now for some big-screen, high-res fragging.

Damon,

Re:Oops,

[The_K4]

If I stand in front of it and say "Engage" will the whole house move?

Re:Oops,

[ActionPlant]

Either that or you'll wind up getting married to the thing.

Forecasting.

[saintlupus]

I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ...

Yeah, that's what I said when I read that HDTV was "right around the corner." In _Commodore Magazine_. In 1988.

Long fucking corner, that's for sure.

--saint

Oh really?

[iamdrscience]

Quoth the article:

The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing.

They're going to bully out competition and make ethically questionable deals with other companies (cable, movie and videogame most likely) to maintain their market dominance?

Moore's law for TVs???

[Beek]

Are we going to have to upgrade our TVs as often as we upgrade computers?

AAAAAAAARGH

[GMFTatsujin]

Intel, as well as other large chip manufacturers, should be able to expand the benefits of Moore's Law, named for Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, which accurately predicted decades ago that computer chips would continue to double in capacity roughly every 18 months, while their price would continue to fall.

Can we please, please, PLEASE stop mentioning Moore's Law in every single freaking article about Intel?

What are they going to do: make televisions cost half as much and go twice as fast after 18 months?

Re:AAAAAAAARGH

[keep_it_simple_stupi]

What are they going to do: make televisions cost half as much and go twice as fast after 18 months?

No, even better. Half as much and twice as BIG after 18 months. In 20 years we should all have drive-in theaters in our back yards. :)

hah

[happyfrogcow]

<obscene gesture>I got your 7 inch thick rear projection right here</obscene gesture>

In other news:

[holysin]

AMD has announced it will be producing even lower cost chips that while rated for lower resolution, achieve higher resolution, but only when used with much larger cooling solutions.

Intel...

[DaneelGiskard]

The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing

Get 3.999998456 digital television sets for the price of 2.00000000 + 2.000000000? ;-)

Intel should be using MY chip designs!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have invented a Central Processing Unit design that allows failed components of the Central Processing Unit to be replaced without replacing the entire Central Processing Unit. The massive Central Processing Unit would be in a grid-like pattern and each failed quadrant of the grid could then be replaced with a new quadrant. The primary failure prone areas such as the Floating Point Unit and system Cache is designed to run on the outside of the core Central Processing Unit. Beneath the primary failure prone construction resides the backup infrastructure. Once a failure is detected the processing moves closer to the Central Processing Unit. What results is a faster computation during a failure. This schematic would allow many layers of redundancy with many higher levels where the highest level is the one that gets re-routed to a layer closer to the Central Processing Unit during a failure and then, if there was a subsequent failure, the level beneath it (which is closer to the core part of the Central Processing unit) is activated. Failed modules such as the Floating Point Unit and system Cache could be replaced while the system is running and then would be engaged to compute information. This idea was invented by Shampoo.

rich commentary

[tr0p]

"I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year..."

I love the wiseass remarks at the end of every news post on here. Its more fun than reading the articles ^^

"In other news, Intel has announced a new 64-bit computing platform costing around $1000 by next Christmas..."

I guess I can put off buying a new computer for another year..."

Moore's second Law

[Iowaguy]

Moore's Second Law: The number of mentions of Moore's first law on slashdot will double every 18 months.

Content

[raider_red]

Now, can someone please make a television that shows something worth watching?

Re:"TrustedTV(tm)

[modecx]

That would be great.

I'll get a watermark from a copyrighted product tatooed onto my forehead (or perhaps have my freckels re-arranged). Then I'll go around and steal stuff and rob people, because the security cameras won't record the image of my face; I'll be a walking pirated DVD.

Woopie!