On 10/15/2011 06:45 PM, Paul Z Humphrey wrote:

> On 10/15/2011 12:02 AM, SMS wrote:

>> On 10/14/2011 1:22 PM, Paul Z Humphrey wrote:

>

>>> This being said, I'm still waiting to see anything that proves that

>>> Intel has manufactured cpus for anybody but itself in any meaningful

>>> quantity. That's why it was so hard to figure out what Mezei meant.

>>> I'm not sure Intel would be interested in making 22nm ARM chips. Not

>>> sure at all.

>

> (,,,)

>

>> Even though the smaller geometry chips might be slightly lower power,

>> the reality is that CPU core power is only a small portion of total

>> power, the screen and the radios use a lot of power as well so battery

>> life gains would be small.

>

> Rest assured that manufacturers are also working very hard to lower

> displays energy consumption.

>

> Active-matrix OLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode or

> AMOLED) is a display technology for use in mobile devices and

> televisions. OLED describes a specific type of thin film display

> technology in which organic compounds form the electroluminescent

> material, and active matrix refers to the technology behind the

> addressing of pixels. Researchers at DuPont used FLOW-3D from Flow

> Science, Inc., a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that

> simulates various physical flow processes, to optimize coating processes

> for a new solution-coated AMOLED display technology that is cost and

> performance competitive with existing commercial vapor deposition

> technology. Using custom modeling and analytical approaches, they

> developed short- and long-range film-thickness control and uniformity

> that is commercially viable at large glass sizes.[1] As of 2011, AMOLED

> technology is used in mobile phones, media players and digital

> cameras[2] and continues to make progress toward low-power, low-cost and

> large-size (for example 40 inches) applications

>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-matrix_OLED

>

> Samsung's Super AMOLED is a step forward in terms of brightness.

>

> I also suppose that with downsizing comes extra FLOPS which, with

> querying search engines by voice, is certainly not to be sneezed at.

So? Talk to me about Apple's AMOLED display. SAmsung has 720p coming 

soon, Apple is Cook-ed!