I have looked into driving old laptop LCD's.
A PIC can do 95% of all projects but the fastest processor to drive a LCD is an FPGA.
An FPGA can process 2 threads at once.
Write code in Verilog or VHDL.
Manufacturers Xilinx, Altera and Actel all have processor's available with pins(solder-able not BGA exclusive) and free software (3.5Gig).

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