Chip giant Micron Technology launched a microdisplay panel based on technology from Displaytech, which it acquired last week.
Micron said the acquisition and product debut is part of its strategy to diversify its line of products beyond memory chips and get into the burgeoning microdisplay market.
The new Micron panel is a wide-screen quarter WQVGA microdisplay solution that enables portable video and image projection for mobile display applications such as camera viewfinders, heads-up displays and pico projectors.
The new WQVGA panel utilizeds ferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon (FLCOS) technology, which delivers high-quality images and color compared with competing microdisplay technologies, according to Micron.
"As more and more devices integrate capabilities to download images and videos, demand is growing for display technologies to enable consumers to easily view the content they have captured," the company said in a statement. "A key design challenge for consumer-electronics manufacturers is creating a solution that is small enough to fit into today's ever-shrinking products."
In other words, it looks like Micron is betting it can use Displaytech's technology in compact products such as mobile devices.
Micron did not disclose financial terms of the Displaytech acquisition.
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