“Sharp’s high-resolution IGZO display technology may not be out of the running for the iPad 3, according an analyst at DisplaySearch,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET.
“Though there have been rumors claiming that Sharp’s IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) technology did not make the cut for the iPad 3, Charles Annis, a Kyoto, Japan-based analyst at DisplaySearch, thinks Sharp still has a good shot at the iPad 3,” Crothers reports. “The iPad 3 is expected to sport a 9.7-inch 2048×1536 resolution LCD, a much higher resolution than the iPad 2’s 1024-by-768 panel.”
Criothers reports, “[Annis says], ‘There’s not a single commercial IGZO FPD [flat-panel display] available right now. And if Apple does start accepting them for the iPad 3 and starts selling then in April, that would be a world’s first and we do think that’s likely to happen. Our thinking [for the release date of the iPad 3] is probably around April.'”
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