LCOS - something of the past

Everyone know what is a LCD or at least what LCD stands for. But how about LCOS ? Do you know what is LCOS? LCD means Liquid Crystal Displays while LCOS means Liquid Crystal on Silicon. LCOS was touted as the the chip that was going to kill DLP technology from Texas Instruments. LCOS uses reflective technology similar to DLP projectors anduses liquid crystals instead of individual mirrors (of DLP). LCOS technology can produce much higher resolution images using highly advanced silicon technology than liquid crystal display and plasma display technologies, but I guess design problems, and high cost manufacturing have spelled trouble for LCOS technology. Intel has withdrawn from LCOS, and recently Syntax-Brillian. Management has finally done the sums and and decided the revenue potential did not outweigh the risk and investments needed to be successful.

LCOS will be a thing of the past in future, or even soon.