Qualcomm lays down $1 billion for new Mirasol plant in Taiwan, catering small and medium devices

January 3 2011

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This may seem like a boring piece of tech news, but Mirasol is the display technology of the future: like e-ink, it can maintain its state without using any power but unlike e-ink which flickers the screen anytime something changes. Mirasol on the other hand uses very small reflectors to let light of different colors pass through its pixels.

How Mirasol Works

January 19 2011
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This is similar to the PxelQi screen technology. The technology is “Transflective liquid crystal display” They had been in business for a while and have already supplied low-power LCD’s to 2 million OLPC laptops. http://www.pixelqi.com/ more can be found on their blog.

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