Qualcomm building a $2b Mirasol plant after winning ‘major client’?

Well, if this isn’t an announcement of intent, we don’t know what is. Those good old market sources are reporting today that Qualcomm has set aside a fab $2 billion to build a new Mirasol display production plant in Taiwan. The chipmaker already has a Mirasol facility in Longtan, a joint venture with Foxlink, but is alleged to be the only real investor in this new build. The entirety has apparently been spurred on by a big client having ” already started the design-in process” after seeing production samples of the 5.7-inch, low power, color display. We are able to’t know of course who that client could be, but Qualcomm’s been doing a little real heavy flirting with Amazon and all those overtures might (might!) finally have paid off. Of couse, as Jeff Bezos himself said, a color Kindle isn’t prone to hit the market anytime soon, and this new factory isn’t expected to start volume production until 2012, but we’ll take a slow and speculative roadmap over no roadmap at all.

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