Pixel i Low-Cost & Low-Power Computing Etech 2009 Keynote March The future of portables is all about the screen Mary Lou Jepsen
“I love my laptop more than my life” Personal from Badmus in Nigeria, May 2007
Applying our skills to problems
The World's Information is Digital - web, news, music, tv, movies, 10M+ books - only the global rich have access to it. The Digital Divide
97% of adolescents alive today live in the developing world
One Laptop per Child
Innovation High-end High-tech Research Pixel Qi, OLPC
Low Power is the real key 50% Environmental Screen leads
And meanwhile....
How Low can you go? Component prices are down 50% from Q308.
Use the Factories of the World New Molecules? TFT LCD How to get access Downturn Impact
Pixel Qi Position and Vision All screens should not be TVs! Keys for Portables –Low power –Sunlight readability –High resolution for reading –Paper white
Our 2009 Launch: 3 Displays in 1, the 3Qi Triple Mode Screen Very low power, paper-white, sunlight readable, reflective e-paper mode Full color, bright, conventional transmissive LCD TV mode Low power, highlight color, sunlight readable, transflective mode Pixel Qi 3Qi Display Funding
Beyond the XO Screen LPTV
“ The CPU wars are over; it's the screen wars now” Quote from a C-level executive at one of the top-3 computer brands in the world (October 2008) The future of portables is all about the screen Mary Lou Jepsen