For those of you who had been putting off buying a HDTV until the first models sporting Intel's LCOS chip came out -- it all turned out to be vaporware! Intel just announced that they've stopped all LCOS chip development and cancelled the project. All throughout the year, people have been touting the Intel LCOS chip, even though they never displayed a working prototype and they have very limited experience in the home theater market. In the end, it was just empty hype. Hopefully now, those of us looking to buy HDTVs can start sifting through our options based on what's real, rather than hold our purchases hostage because of empty promises from Intel.

Here's a snip from a PC World article:

Intel started off with plans to develop a 1-megapixel LCOS chip, but realized it needed a 2-megapixel chip to compete with Texas Instruments' success in selling 1-megapixel chips for televisions, it said in August.

The LCOS project was not thought to be extremely difficult from a manufacturing standpoint, but the implementation of the technology is tricky, according to analysts and Intel executives. Intel builds transistors as well as any company in the world, but it did not have a great deal of experience integrating liquid crystal and colored glass above those transistors.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118289,00.asp