Samsung Electronics 7 inches WVGA single chip LCD officially put into operation

Samsung has officially started production of single chip WVGA 7 inch LCD screen in the South Korean capital Seoul, the Samsung Corp yesterday announced the news. So far, the mobile market LCD screen WVGA solutions to 8 inch and 9 inch model based. Through the use of more advanced integration technology, the new Samsung mobile display solution to the ordinary LCD also requires a separate control of the printed circuit board, Samsung Gate-driver integrated circuit is placed directly on the glass panel, the technological progress, let us in the future will see more slender and mobile multimedia devices available.

The biggest characteristic of this new display is a single chip design, using Samsung's unique ASG (amorphous silicon gate) technology, makes the image display resolution up to 854x480 pixels, the contrast of up to 400:1, up to 450 nits brightness. Samsung Corp vice president Yun Jin-hyuk said: "this breakthrough can let our partners to develop various customers with higher resolution and larger aspect ratio of truly portable devices, due to the use of single chip package design, we can be more integrated in a display component of amorphous silicon LCD." Samsung plans in 2007 will be 7 inches WVGA LCD production increased to $10 million, and intends to expand the product line in the first half of next year to the product area of 5 inches.