Small LCD shipments go through the roof

The migration to colour is now close to complete across the entire range of mobile handsets, with 74% of the display market going for colour screens. TFTs, now available for a similar price to Colour STN (passive matrix) displays, are unsurprisingly dominating, making up three quarters of the colour displays sold.

However, OLED is due to take a mere 1% of the overall market, and manufacturers are making increasingly pessimistic sounds about this technology.

The increase in the use of colour screens is great news for chip designer ARM too, as the increased requirements for the CPU have led to record-breaking shipments and revenues for them too. In fact there were a staggering 572 million ARM-based processors shipped in Q1 2006 alone, with the mobile segment growing 37% year on year.

Many mobile phones already feature two separate processor cores in their design, and ARM's tiny new SMP-capable designs are planned to increase this further. µ

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