24/2011
Electronics Weekly
Watch out OLED manufacturers, the low power display market is about to have a new big-volume supplier.
Qualcomm, which is best known for its mobile phone chipsets and processors, is to build a $1bn displays production facility. The factory in Taiwan will produce small area, low-power displays for mobile phones and e-readers.
This is [...]
01/10/2011
Hexus.net
Qualcomm’s impressive Mirasol display technology has been doing the rounds for a while now. Unfortunately, not much has really changed since we last saw the tech in September – or even in February – but we did manage to learn a few more details.
For those who aren’t familiar with Mirasol, it’s a reflective display [...]
10/04/2010
Top News
In a rather quiet announcement at the Mobilize conference last week, Qualcomm revealed that its mirasol display technology will not be ready for release this year.
According to the information forwarded by Qualcomm to GigaOM, the company will not be able to stick to its originally-promised 2010 timeline for mirasol display technology, which will now [...]
10/01/2010
Giga Om
Qualcomm, the San Diego-based chip maker, is going to finally see its much-vaunted Mirasol color displays come to market in early 2011. The displays were supposed to launch in 2010.
The extremely low-energy and low-cost displays are going to be used in eReaders and in tablets. I got hold of a working prototype at our [...]
09/21/2010
CIOL CyberTimes News Daily
LONDON, UK: Sources at Qualcomm say that the company is focusing on 5.7-inch diagonal and smaller applications for its Mirasol display right now. This is happening despite the fact that there is no technical reason for the technology not addressing larger applications.
The 9.7-inch size popularized by Apple with its iPad tablet [...]
09/17/2010
Hexus.net
Being a web journalist often means days on end without and professional reason to even leave the house. But over the last couple of weeks opposite has been very much the case for me, so I thought I’d share some of my findings from a frenzied fortnight of phone fun (sorry, don’t know where that [...]
01/08/2010
Wall Street Journal
Qualcomm has come to market with a display technology called Mirasol that it expects to power next-generation, color e-book readers. Mirasol relies on so-called Imod technology, which uses ambient light to generate images and colors.
Unless you’re Stephen Hawking, the scientific details will make your nose bleed. But Qualcomm says that e-readers with [...]
11/23/2009
EE Times Europe
LONDON — Qualcomm Corp. has shown off a 5.3-inch full-color non-volatile MEMS-based display and claims a slightly larger version, with a 5.7-inch diagonal size, will be found in an e-reader product to deploy in fall 2010. The display features 1,024 by 768 pixel resolution and around 220 pixels per inch.
“We have a brand [...]
