projector in a cell phone soon inevitable?
By admin at 15 May, 2008, 6:21 pm
For John Van Scoter, one of the leaders of the branch of Texas Instruments DLP, projector in cell phones will experience the same success as that of a mobile camera in recent years.
Texas Instruments (TI) is one of the few companies working to develop projectors miniaturized to the point of being integrated into cell phones. The CES 2008, at the beginning of the year was rich in demonstrations on self-projection systems, as the model Show Microvision, or embedded modules such as 3M, which should be in place shortly Samsung cell phones.
John Van Scoter, who oversees the branch DLP Texas Instruments, responsible for the development of projection systems, said at a forum in Taipei that projector in the cell phone could experience the same success as that of APN for cell phones, become a feature almost inevitable in the coming years.
A contract to become
Several manufacturers are already working to integrate projector Texas Instruments in their mobile devices, with a market launch expected in the second half of 2008. TI believes that the potential for this type of component is a huge penetration of 1% of the global market already correspond to 10 million chipsets Pico DLP per year.
On the other hand, improvements in quality to come and lower production costs can consider their migration segment terminals premium to that of cell phone input range of five to ten years.
The integrated projector bring a little more cell phones uses still reserved for computers. They will notably exceed an essential motives, represented by the size of the screen.
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