With the increasing number of gadgets people port around these days, energy efficiency of devices is always an important aspect for manufacturers. Samsung and Nouvoyance will be exhibiting what they label the industry’s first 10.1†WQXGA 2,560 x 1,600p format PenTile RGBW LCD for slates.
This sort of display may be perfect for applications that need high image and text clarity, which is practically everything that can be done on a tablet PC. The fact that it can produce 300cd/m2 of luminance while using 40% less power that regular RGB stripe LCDs in power-saving modes ought to have OEMs looking this way eagerly.
“In order to develop tablets with the form and function that consumers demand, a design engineer ultimately has to determine how to get the highest resolution display possible, while still fitting within the overall power budget for their design,†explained Joel Pollack, executive vice president of Nouvoyance, Samsung’s affiliate company which developed the PenTile RGBW technology.
“Samsung’s PenTile display technology is the only display technology that operates at 40% less power yet provides twice that of Full HD-viewing performance for consumers compared to legacy RGB stripe LCDs,†stated Dr. Sungtae Shin, Senior VP of Samsung Electronics. “There is no other commercial display technology on the market today that offers this high of a resolution and pixel density in a 10.1†size display.â€
The LCD has a brightness mode rendering 600cd/m2 of luminance for visibility in brightly lit conditions. Integrated PenTile technology offers a 300dpi resolution with two-thirds of the number of sub-pixels. Additionally, the 72% color gamut should enable better color realism as pitted against average RGB stripe tablet displays.
Samsung intends to kick off commercial availability of the 300dpi WQXGA PenTile RGBW display for slate applications within this year itself. Meanwhile, both companies are taking it to the SID Display Week 2011 International Symposium.
