Chipworks - MPCL1 Breakdown and analysis

A great article at Chipworks. I Highly recommend looking at the source. There is much more there.

They clearly haven't come to their conclusion that STM is involved in the manufacturing of this from rumors. They've looked at it. 

Evidence that MicroVision has good, powerful partners.

From Chipworks <<-- go to the source.

The unit has a 16x9, 1920x720 display, with a claimed contrast ratio of 80,000:1 and a full colour palette, generated with a laser light source capable of cranking out 32 lumens (good for a 40-inch display in a darkened room). Connection is by HDMI and USB ports and WiFi (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n), and it retails for $350 US on Amazon and elsewhere.

They have a technology they call PicoP® Display, which uses laser beam scanning (LBS); red, blue and green lasers combine to give the full range of colours, and a patented MEMS scanner crates the image. Other pico-projectors using the LBS engine include the Celluon Pico-Pro and the Sharp RoBoHon phone.

Which is where STMicroelectronics come in – they clearly make the MEMS die for the Microvision module. This is the second time recently that we’ve seen ST micromirrors in products, we blogged about the Intel RealSense camera back in July. This one is different, though, the RealSense MEMS is an electrostatic scanning mirror that only scans in one direction, whereas the Microvision device is a dual-axis electromagnetic scanning mirror.