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Seiko Epson ships a 16-bit microcontroller
MICRO DISPLAY MAKER Seiko Epson has developed and begun shipping samples of the S1C17706, a 16-bit microcontroller capable of 5,120-dot high-resolution display.
This capability gives it the largest display area of Epson's 16-bit S1C17700 microcontroller series.
The outfit said there is a growing demand for displays that have really clear user interfaces. These include high-performance watches and small portable game devices that are powered by coin batteries.
To achieve higher quality, more vivid images, the S1C17706 features a 5,120-dot LCD driver, a four grayscale display that makes it possible to display anti-aliased images, and built-in 1MB flash memory that enables it to store large volumes of display content.
By incorporating these functions on a single chip, Epson claims its microcontroller consumes only one-fifth of the power used by previous configurations.
The outfit says that this makes the S1C17706 ideal for applications that run on small batteries. µ
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childishly drgging HD everywhere is not mature. Its resolution is gracefully high enough. Also the blessing in disguise is that they can fuse a solar panle in LCD and exploit the PIXEL-PITCH phenomenon. the distance between pixels can give way light to reach underlayer of solar panel through top LCD dispaly layer.
A 128x40 4-greys display might be great for a calculator, watch or oven/microwave display but it's hardly HD is it!
The low power consumption is a more interesting feature. And presumably it is priced in the region of tens of cents rather than dollars.
Its comming around November
http://www.seikowatches.com/press/2010/mar_rls1003-06.html
VIDEO:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/seikos-active-matrix-e-ink-watch-exemplifies-awesome-might-j/
on a tiger handheld.
http://castlevaniatiger.ytmnd.com/
I wish this was a joke but. I think its a real handheld game system.
REX 6000 LIVES AGAIN
5120-dot display works out to 71x70. Like the article says, it's high-resolution for a wristwatch but (at the previous poster) not HD.
Nintendo doesn't like hd videogames, so if this is being aimed at the handheld market it is probably apply iphone games or the new sony psp I'm guessing.