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Samsung announced 2560×1600 WQXGA PenTile display for tablets. Samsung Electronics and Nouvoyance demonstrates the 10.1-inch, 300dpi, RGBW Prototype display at the SID Display Week 2011 International Symposium at Los Angeles. The developers claim this as the industry’s first ultra-high resolution, liquid crystal display (LCD). Unlike the traditional RGB stripe, PenTile uses RGBW to deliver the brightest images. This new display technology will be commercially made available by end of this year 2011.

Dr. Sungtae Shin, Senior Vice President, Samsung Electronics, says, “Samsung’s PenTile display technology is the only display technology that operates at 40 percent less power yet provides twice that of Full HD-viewing performance for consumers compared to legacy RGB stripe LCDs. There is no other commercial display technology on the market today that offers this high of a resolution and pixel density in a 10.1-inch size display.”

Similarly, Joel Pollack, Executive Vice President, Nouvoyance, said, “In order to develop tablets with the form and function that consumers demand, a design engineer ultimately has to determine how to get the highest resolution display possible, while still fitting within the overall power budget for their design.”

PenTile RGBW WQXGA Technology Highlights:

• This 10.1-inch tablet panel is capable of 300 cd/m2 of luminance, yet uses 40 percent less power than that used by legacy RGB stripe LCDs in power-saving modes.
• An outdoor brightness mode of as much as 600 cd/m2 luminance enables viewing in bright ambient lighting.
• The display’s color gamut is 72 percent., allowing greater color realism than legacy RGB stripe tablet displays that have a typical color gamut of 55 percent NTSC.
• PenTile technology achieves 300 dpi resolution with two-thirds the number of subpixels, maintaining the VESA/ICDM display resolution standard.

The RGBW has an extra white sub-pixel which provides the much needed brightness and crispness. Samsung WQXGA is better than the 1080p HD standard.