Comments on: OLPC to use Pixel Qi 3Qi screens

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Mold Remediation — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:17:16 +0000

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By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:10:55 +0000

In reply to fitflop walkstar. XO-1 design has a 7.5" screen, but it has a lot of bezel around the screen. So in fact, the XO-1 design mold nearly wouldn't need to be changed to fit in a 10" screen. The only difference would be that the 10" screen would nearly not have any screen bezel if keeping the same current design.

By: fitflop walkstar

fitflop walkstar — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:47:26 +0000

PixelQi said they have 10″ only and will produce other sizes in the future. I think they wrote somewhere that they want to produce a large factor screen next. OTOH, OLPC is at 8.1″ or so. So probably no retrofit for the forseable future. I also don’t really see the point. The new PixelQi displays are supposed to be somewhat better than the OLPC ones but the basic design design is the same. In B/W mode, the white of the OLPC screen is a bit darker than the grey of eInk screens, but not too much. Color support is probably somewhat better as well. But in case of OLPC, who cares? Kids don’t need to draw in 16 million colors.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:19:43 +0000

In reply to obarthelemy. If you read the announcement, Pixel Qi gets to own and control the licencing for the XO-1 screen as well. In return for Pixel Qi owning its technology, OLPC can licence it for free, and even licence for free any future technologies from Pixel Qi, so it goes both ways.

I think this could be formalities as shipments of Pixel Qi screens is just about to happen in huge scale, and so that no matter what happens in terms of huge business deals with big manufacturers, that OLPC has some kind of guarantee that Pixel Qi technology is always available to them with no other licencing costs than manufacturing costs.

By: obarthelemy

obarthelemy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:54:12 +0000

how can you jump from “cross-licensing agreement” to “pixQi screen to be used ” … ?

Intel and AMD have cross licensing agreements. Are AMD CPUs inside Intel's ?

By: aludal

aludal — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:55:42 +0000

Funny…. I thought OLPC/Pixel Qi/3Qi/Mary Lou Jepsen/NI Adam has become definitely irrelevant pieces of vaporware this January. Apparently, I was mistaken, partially: some irrelevant steps in technology transfer occur bearing some of those those names, so Marvell's Moby vaporware might look like Notion Ink vaporware. Or even better. Who cares? Prime time netbook manufacturers don't, they care only that OLPC won't get large consignments of 10″ LCD sreens, that's all.