Google Invests in Himax of Taiwan

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Sruthi Ramakrishnan, Google to Fund Taiwanese Display Maker to Push Google Glass. Reuters, July 22, 2013
http://in.reuters.com/article/20 ... INDEE96L09C20130722

Note:
(a) About the Indian surname Ramakrishnan.
(i) Sanskrit rama means "‘pleasing,'  ‘charming,' name of an incarnation of Vishnu."
(ii) Krishna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna
(Sanskrit for "black;" is the eighth incarnation of the supreme God Vishnu in Hinduism)
(iii) Krishnan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnan
(Krishnan is a common [sur]name in South India)
(iv) The Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu) surname Krishnan is a "Hindu name from Sanskrit ‘black’ (see Krishna) + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n."
Patrick Hanks (ed), Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press, 2003.

(b) Himax Technologies, Inc  奇景光電股份有限公司
http://www.himax.com.tw/en/about/himax.asp
("a fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imagine processing technologies")
(c) liquid crystal on silicon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal_on_silicon
(In LCoS, liquid crystals are applied directly to the surface of a silicon chip coated with an aluminized layer, with some type of passivation layer, which is highly reflective)
(d) head-up display
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display