Sharp runs computer on piece of glass
October 23 2002
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp said yesterday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimetres square and one millimetre thick.
The computing power was only eight bits compared to today's common 32-bit machines, with a speed of 2.5 megahertz, compared to today's 2.8 gigahertz which is more than one thousand times more powerful, but it marked a revolution in computing, the company said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/22/1034561495445.html
