Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
by lhl on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:54AM
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Qualcomm's Mirasol displays might have fit the bill, they weren't responding to my company's request for samples and they eventually closed everything down without shipping many (any?) in production. They are working on a MEMS-IGZO product w Sharp that was similar and supposed to come out last year but I haven't heard a peep recently. Liquavista was working on a color epaper solution as well (acquired by Samsung in 2010, then Amazon in 2013, nothing announced.)
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Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
by dragonmum on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @05:25AM
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Qualcomm shutdown Mirasol in 2012 after buying it back in 2004 and laid off all the engineers. http://gizmodo.com/5928315/say-goodbye-to-qualcomms-magic-mi...
Recently, Apple bought the Taiwan fab plant where the old mirasol displays were made, which had been transferred to AU Optronics. But a fab is a fab is a fab so it doesn't mean they're making mirasol displays there.
Liquavista is another crapshoot, spun off in 2006, made huge pronouncements at shows, told us they would be production ready in 8-12 months back in 2010 and then shuttered in Dec 2010. Then layoffs, then Samsung, now Amazon. No clue what their real status is now.
In other words, doing demos is doing demos. Commercially available production ready product is a different story completely.
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
by robin_reala on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:43AM
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Mirasol made it into the Qualcomm Toq smartwatch, but in ‘limited quantities’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Toq
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
by ZenoArrow on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:23AM
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Mirasol also made it to an e-reader, but I believe it was only released in South Korea.
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/kyobo-mirasol-color-e-reader-deb...