On: Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung

[londons_explore]

Because the display can only have one row of pixels on at once.

If you have a display 1000 pixels tall, then the brightest LED's are on for 1/1000th of the time.

[akvadrako → londons_explore]

You can have more drivers if you want, say 10 so they're on 1/100th of the time.

[addisonl → londons_explore]

Seems like a limitation that will be solved as time goes on.

[londons_explore → addisonl]

Unless you have a diode, capacitor and MOSFET at every pixel, you can't....

And manufacturing limitations mean you can't easily have those per-pixel while still keeping the whole thing cheap.

[Someone → londons_explore]

> manufacturing limitations mean you can't easily have those per-pixel while still keeping the whole thing cheap

“can’t easily” seems to imply it is possible. If that’s true, Apple, with its deep pockets, should be able to do it.

Also, I don’t think Apple will be bothered much with “keeping the whole thing cheap”. They will want to prevent it from getting expensive, but likely will accept intermediate costs if the result is much better.

[saltcured → londons_explore]

Couldn't they break the screen into tiles/chunks that have separate addressing? I.e. use 2 or 4 parallel drivers and get 2x or 4x duration per line.