Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Posted by Roberto
3:30 PM
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SHARP UNVEILS COMPUTER-ON-GLASS DISPLAY
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. Sharp is betting heavily on CGS technology (CGS = continuous grain silicon), which permits on-screen circuitry that can save space, cut production costs and produce ultra-fine resolutions for showing maps or photos.
Shumpei Yamazaki, president of unlisted Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd, Sharp's partner in the project, compared the challenge of putting processor circuitry on glass to "building a skyscraper on rubber."
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Note: a rival technology, low-temperature polysilicon, is used in LCDs by Japanese peers such as Toshiba Corp and Sanyo Electric Co
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