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EETimes scores with interview with inventor of TI's digital micromirror tech |
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Jan 25, 2007 at 05:12 PM |
I heard about Texas Instruments' digital micromirror technology at some otherwise-forgotten keynote session in the mid-90s.
The idea of MEMS devices with arrays of tiny mirrors that could enable high-end projection displays was cool then, and it is still cool today---despite TI's egregious DLP marketing slogan that begins with the physics-challenged "The speed of light just got faster...."
R. Colin Johnson's revealing interview with Larry Hornbeck, the inventor of the digital micromirror, was published earlier this week on the EETimes site. Turns out that TI started working on MEMS back in the late '70s way ahead of the curve, before micromachining was introduced. Hornbeck also details TI's unique manufacturing approach to MEMS (it's the CMOS, stupid), DLP's road to commercialization, and why he has an Emmy sitting on his shelf. Good questions + interesting answers = fascinating, informative interview.
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