Gaming Sharp to supply ‘free-form’ LCDs to Nintendo

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OSAKA – Sharp Corp. is close to providing video game maker Nintendo Co. with its advanced liquid crystal displays that can be shaped freely according to user demand, sources said Tuesday.

Unlike conventional LCDs, the Free-Form Display, which Sharp unveiled this year, has a bezel that can be bent, allowing for freedom of design.

Nintendo is expected to use the displays in its new portable game consoles to replace the Nintendo 3DS lines, or for a recently announced device to map sleep quality, which the company wants to market by March 2016, the sources said.

Nintendo will be Sharp’s first client to adopt the new LCDs.

Sharp will start mass production around early 2016 at its plant in Mie Prefecture, bringing forward its plan by about a year.

Nintendo is considering creating a hole at the center of the display, making it doughnut-shaped, one of the sources said.

Read more here. (Japan Times)
 
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