Remember the fact that Mirasol e-reader display Qualcomm was hoping to release this year? Yeah, it isn’t happening. Speaking at a press briefing in San Diego yesterday, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs confirmed that the 5.7-inch panel have been abandoned after failing to fulfill expectations. Instead, the corporate will devote its attention to the “next version” of the technology, which has Jacobs feeling optimistic:
“We have now a very interesting roadmap — we’re starting out on e-readers because we figured having E Ink as a competing technology was as a way to start. But when you concentrate on the ability consumption of the screens which are out now [on tablets], they’re very bright OLED screens that fritter away many of the power of the battery. We do not today have as vibrant color as an OLED display – but we have got a roadmap that gets us to a far brighter color.”
Presumably, this roadmap would come with that low-power ” converged e-reader ” we heard a few few weeks ago, slated for release by the tip of the year. Jacobs also mentioned that Qualcomm is planning to take a position one billion dollars in its Taiwan Mirasol plant, which can help produce the type of volume that, say, Amazon would demand for its Kindle displays. It is all speculation, for sure, but Qualcomm certainly seems to have some big plans in store for the remainder of the year.
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