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MWC: Texas Instruments announces brighter mobile display chipsets
CHIPMAKER Texas Instruments has announced a digital light processing Pico optimised chipset that might provide brighter images on mobile devices while also cutting power consumption.
The chipset offers enhanced brightness for WVGA and VGA devices, which include smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders and similar devices featuring an embedded Pico projector.
The WVGA specifications include a 16x9 aspect ratio and 854x480 pixels resolution. VGA offers an aspect ratio of 4x3 and 640x480 resolution.
Power costs might also drop significantly with the chipsets, according to Texas Instruments. They support the company's Analog ASIC Pad 1000 and promise lower costs across the board, thanks to the smaller form factor, which can help alleviate material costs.
Some Android smartphones already feature the Pico projector technology, which allows image projection at up to 50 inches distance on a variety of surfaces.
The chipset is being touted as so small that it can barely be detected in the device, which means that manufacturers won't have to compromise on other parts in order to add this technology into existing products. µ
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No doubt laptop manufacturers will jump on this new development as a means to reduce screen resolutions even more. It's utterly ridiculous to see laptops featuring Core i7 processors, 8GB of RAM, huge hard drives, and discrete video cards, and yet equipped with screens that run at 1366x768 or some other abominable resolutions (1024x576?). These are not ultraportables or netbooks, but 15" screens. It's unbelievable.