NEC Corp is claiming the highest resolution yet for a thin-film transistor flat panel display with a 12.9 device that put up 1.3m pixels in a 1,280 by 1,024 array. It features a 40mS response time, 70 candela/m2 brightness, 4,096 colour capability on a RGB screen, and wider viewing angle, plus or minus 20o in the vertical, and plus or minus 30o laterally. It uses double controller digital interface technology that processes two pixels simultaneously to up the speed; reduced signal distortion inside the display; and a new liquid crystal diode fine pitch connection technology. NEC says that its experience in the semiconductor business gives it an advantage in the thin-film transistor manufacturing process, and it claims a current manufacturing capability of 10,000 units a month for the screen, but did not give any indication of when it would be available or of the price.
