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NEC integrates more components into 'system-on-glass' LCDs
NEC's relatively low-key system-on-glass technology is getting a substantial upgrade today, as the company announced that it has "developed an LCD module that incorporates all chips, including the LSI, with memory on the glass substrate." Current LCD modules have the pixel-driving chips right on the glass with LSI / memory embedded on a "separate board and attached to the module," but this new approach enables the firm to cram DRAM, DACs, and other necessary functions onto a polysilicon thin film right on the glass. The prototype device is a 1.1-inch TFT LCD display with 160 x 120 pixels and DRAM that can store a meager 230-kilobytes on data, and while the company is unsurprisingly dubbing it the "world's first" of its kind, the commercial realm won't be seeing an end product for a good "two to three years."[Via Nikkei]
NEC's latest system-on-glass display for broadcast gear debuts
NEC has just announced its latest "system-on-glass" LCD for broadcast and other video gear, taking technology that had been previously relegated to the PDA/GPS domain to a bigger level. This new screen is loaded up with a 960 x 540 resolution, 350:1 contrast ratio, 350 candelas per square meter of brightness, and measures 3.0 x 1.7 inches. It'll be demoed at the International Broadcasting Equipment Exhibition 2006 (that's Inter BEE for those in the know), November 15 - 17 at Makuhari Messe in Mihama-ku, Chiba Prefecture in Japan. If you show up to Inter BEE in the yellow and black suit that we saw in that 1994 Blind Melon video, maybe you can convince NEC to get you a deal on a new camera with one of these displays.[Via AV Watch]
NEC announces four "system-on-glass" LCDs
NEC announced its new "system-on-glass" LCDs, a relatively newish tech we've been hearing about for a while which can be used in PDAs and GPS devices. The company says that because the circuitry is built into the glass, these new displays will cost less to produce and can be built faster. There are four new models, including 2.7- or 3.5-inch screens that can be transflective or transmissive, so device makers have options if their device needs to be used outside or not. NEC will demo the displays at Flat Panel Display International 2006 to be held from October 18 to 20 at Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, and will begin mass producing them by February 2007. So if that means next year we'll get at least a few cheaper, thinner, better PDAs and other handhelds, we're all for it.[Via Reg Hardware]
