2023-04-26

Samsung, LG Electronics return to negotiating table for rare OLED partnership deal

Photo by: BoliviaInteligente/Unsplash Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are two of the leading conglomerates in South Korea. They are usually rivals in the industry, but this time, they are reportedly eyeing a partnership deal for OLED television panels. The two firms are said to be in talks and may possibly sign a deal before the second half of this year. If the negotiation is successful, it will be a historic deal as they have been competitors since the establishment of their respective companies. Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are reportedly j...
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2023-04-25

TCL’s latest 4K Mini LED TV presented at CES 2023 is already on sale

TCL is known for offering TVs with optimal value for money and this year, the Chinese manufacturer is doing it again with its new range of televisions for the European market. The new C645, C745 and C845 use a Neo QLED display, a term for a Mini LED backlight using the quantum dots of QLED. Scheduled for the month of May, the 65C845 model is already benefiting from a reduction bringing its price from 1,490 euros to 1,190 euros thanks to a refund offer. The TCL 65C845 is part of the new range of TCL 2023 televisions featuring the latest display technolo...
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2023-04-25

Foxconn shows off brighter microLED microdisplay

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., which trades as Foxconn, has worked with Ennostar and Unikorn Semiconductor Corp. to produce a 0.12-inch microdisplay. The companies worked together to optimize microLED device structures and novel thin-film protection technology to achieve a display with a raw pixel density exceeding 6,500 PPI and a blue light brightness of 200,000 nits. The use of novel thin film protection technology reduced surface defects, improving external quantum efficiency, and increased product reliability, Foxconn said. Unikorn Semiconductor Cor...
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2023-04-25

While Apple will reportedly provide users with a wide-range of familiar apps for their first XR Headset, there could be a few Impressive Firsts

Patently Apple first began to follow the trend of a possible future headset way back in late 2009, a granted patent dating back to 2007. That was 16 years ago. , well ahead of any rumor and guru forecast. Another granted patent filed in 2008 was published in 2014. Our archive category of Head Mounted Displays (HMD) now holds over 350 patents that we've covered. Apple's HMD project gained greater attention back in 2017 when Apple hired Jeff Norris, a former Missions Operations innovation lead at NASA joined Apple's headset device team led by Mike R...
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2023-04-25

【Exclusive Interview】OZONE and TDMC are Home and Interior Information Centers

Living Design Center OZONE is a lifestyle and interior information center in Shinjuku Park Tower, occupying five floors, 3F-7F, and with a total floor area of 11,000 m². It comprises information floors such as a unique showroom and shop, for everything from furniture and living accessories, to residential equipment and fittings and building materials, and a library with a collection of home design catalogs. OZONE is going to celebrate 30-year anniversary. TrendForce had an honor to interview with Sinji Mori, Vice Director to know what kinds of services OZONE...
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2023-04-24

XIAOMI IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE SMART TV EVER! TAKE THE XIAOMI TV MASTER 86 MINI LED

The huge catalog of products from Lei Jun, made up of China, continues to grow. Now its menu of smart-tuned or smart-tuned equivalent receives a new premium-smart-type television that surprises the price with its high quality capabilities. The TV has a Mini LED screen and is a very large height. This equipment, called Xiaomi TV Master 86 Mini LED, was presented during this week shortly after the Xiaomi 13 Ultra. THIS IS A NEW SMART TV XIAOMI TV MASTER 86 MINI LED. Apart from that, the TV is a week where we meet with th...
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2023-04-24

China's electric car drive, led by BYD, leaves global brands behind

A BYD Seal electric vehicle (EV) is displayed at a car dealership in Shanghai, China, February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song Visitors view a BYD Dolphin EV car at the 44th Bangkok International Motor Show in Bangkok, Thailand, March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha SHANGHAI, April 17 (Reuters) - China's auto market, the world’s largest, is accelerating toward an electric future – leaving established global brands stuck in the slow lane. When auto executives convene in Shanghai for the auto show starting Tuesd...
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2023-04-21

ROHM Introduces the Industry’s Smallest Class of Short-Wavelength Infrared Devices, Ideal for New Portable and Wearable Sensing Applications

ROHM announces mass production technology for SWIR devices The industry's smallest class 1608-size devices are ideal for portable/wearable/hearable applications Santa Clara, CA and Kyoto, Japan, April 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROHM Semiconductor today announced mass production technology for Short-Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) devices in the industry's smallest class [1] 1608-size (1.6mm × >0.8mm) for portable / wearable / hearable devices requiring material detection. SWIR is characterized by a longer wavelength than near...
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2023-04-21

Swiss start-up Ostloong Innovations unveils new ‘LYRA’ Augmented Reality smart glasses

March 31, 2023 – Swiss start-up Ostloong Innovations, a provider of AI-powered augmented reality (AR) solutions, has this week unveiled its ‘LYRA’ multifunctional smart AR glasses, which offer augmented reality and artificial intelligence features for office work, city life and traveling. According to Ostloong, LYRA allows people to navigate the digital world without having to take their attention away from their physical surroundings. The device comes with many features, including an integrated multilingual translator, AI-secretary, GPS, mob...
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2023-04-21

Acer announces Predator Triton 14 with new Mini-LED display option, Intel i7-13700H CPU and up to an RTX 4070 dGPU

New for the 2023 Triton models is a Mini-LED display option with 2,560 x 1,600 resolution and 250 Hz refresh rate. The latest Acer Predator Triton 14 packs an Intel i7-13700H processor with up to 32 GB LPDDR5-6000 RAM and up to 1 TB NVMe SSD storage, plus up to an RTX 4070 dGPU. This model also comes with a Thunderbolt connector and a miniSD card reader. Acer is refreshing the Predator Triton gaming laptop lineup with Intel's Raptor Lake processors and Nvidia's RTX 4000 mobile dGPUs. First to get the updated specs is the small ...
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2023-04-21

Meet the 43” Odyssey Neo G7 – The First Mini-LED Flat Gaming Monitor from Samsung Electronics

The huge 43’’ Quantum Mini-LED screen immerses gamers in the world they play in Odyssey Neo G7 – image simulated for illustrative purposes. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the Australian launch of Odyssey Neo G7 (Model name: G70NC), the company’s first flat Mini-LED model, adding a new form factor to the industry-leading Odyssey lineup. The new monitor delivers a large screen designed to give gamers a more comprehensive range of vision and details – inviting them to explore the worlds of their games with near life-li...
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2023-04-20

AUO Commercializes Seamless Tiled ALED® Displays, Enhancing Cross-domain Abilities to Create Premium Immersive Home Cinema

<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UgfaY3CTgDA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Showcase of Advanced Display Technology Integration and Application Capabilities for Accelerating Entry into Vertical Markets and High-end Audiovisual Opportunities   AUO Corporation (AUO) will showcase its advanced ALED commercial display at the Touch Taiwan 2023 Display Intern...
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2023-04-20

Taiwan's top display makers cut production for consumer devices

Weak TV and notebook demand leaves industry nursing a supply glut AUO and Innolux offer the latest pieces of evidence that the display industry has entered a period of capacity consolidation. (File photo by Kensaku Ihara) TAIPEI -- Taiwan's two leading display makers are scaling back domestic capacity for consumer electronics amid an ongoing supply glut spurred by weak demand for TVs and notebooks. Innolux on Wednesday said it is idling the production and employees at its 5.5-generation liquid crystal diode (LCD) display plant in Taiwan, while AUO is ...
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2023-04-20

Xiaomi TV Master 86-inch Mini LED TV launched with 2000 nits brightness, 70W speakers, and more

Xiaomi's second mini LED TV is bigger and better but more affordable at the same time. Yesterday at the Xiaomi 13 Ultra launch event in China, the company also announced several other products. One of them is the brand’s second mini LED TV, which officially goes by Xiaomi TV Master 86-inch Mini LED TV. For the unaware, the Xiaomi Master series is the company’s premium television lineup. It consists of models featuring OLED, mini LED, and transparent OLED panels. The first Mini LED TV from the brand called Mi TV Maste...
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2023-04-20

AUO demos microLED displays for laptops, but they're not quite ready

The Taiwanese company is scrambling to move on from LCD tech TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: microLED technology has a long way to go before it can compete with Mini LED and OLED, but AUO has more than 600 engineers working to make it cheaper to manufacture. Current prototypes leave a lot to be desired, but the company says it's burning the midnight oil to solve the remaining issues and will gradually shift manufacturing from LCD to microLED over the next few years. ...
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2023-04-19

LG talks TVs with QNED and OLED aplenty in 2023

It’s been 10 years since LG first released OLED, and in that time, much has changed. What’s new for 2023’s big TVs, and is it worth getting excited about? It might be difficult to believe, but TVs are celebrating a bit of an anniversary this year, as OLED turns ten. Yes, it’s been a decade since the world of lab-grown organic light emitting diodes first showed up, giving consumers at home a type of colour that makes images pop off the screen and a black that is so infinitely deep, it may as well be off (because it is). In that time, new pla...
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2023-04-19

ASUS PROART CINEMA PQ07: OFFICIALLY PRESENTED MONITOR WITH 135 INCHES, MICRO-LED, AND 22,000 CD/M

From the 18th April 2023 to the 9th of fifteenth of October 2008, Sven Bauduin, Asus used the NAB Show 2023 broadcasting trade fair, which is currently being held in Las Vegas, to present other products from its Proart products range, which is particularly intended for content creators. The proart cinema PQ07 was the 135-inch micro-LED monitor with a peak brightness of up to 2,000 cd/m.   For example, with the Asus Proart Geforce RTX 4080 and Proart Geforce RTX 4070 Ti, two graphics cards for content creators, Asus developed the NAB Show 2023 ...
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2023-04-19

Xm-Plus Empowers Customers Through State-of-the-Art LED Driver IC Technologies in the Innovation of LED Video Wall Industry

How popular is the emerging applications of LED video wall? The ISLE (International Smart Display & Integrated System Exhibition) 2023 recently held in Shenzhen of Guangdong Province in South China visually showed the answer.  Emerging Applications of LED Video Wall Come to the Fore According to LEDinside, a research institute of TrendForce, xR Virtual Production,  Glasses-Free 3D Display, 5G+8K UHD Display, LED All-in-One, and Creative Displays swept the exhibition hall of ISLE 2023, where visitors lingered for a...
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2023-04-18

While Samsung plans to bring new LED TV for the market, get to know about some of the latest lineups

  Keep your eyes ‘wow’ed open! You can’t afford to miss this. Stay tuned! https://t.co/Ye3Pkl5OES. #MoreWowThanEver #Samsung pic.twitter.com/U5fqPN3M2E — Samsung India (@SamsungIndia) April 17, 2023 [removed][removed]   Samsung India has posted a video on Twitter thus sharing “Keep your eyes ‘wow’ed open! You can’t afford to miss this” with it. The video shared with the post shows the new LED TV that Samsung will launch in the upcoming days. A link with this tweet will take you to ...
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2023-04-18

Rivers Casino Portsmouth bets big on LED

Courtesy of Daktronics. Rivers Casino Portsmouth, an entertainment venue based in Portsmouth, Virginia, has unveiled an indoor and outdoor digital transformation featuring 10 Daktronics LED displays, according to a press release. Indoor renovations included a 1.3mm LED video wall measuring 12.5-feet by 64-feet for betting information and sports broadcasts along with a 208-square-foot 2mm LED video wall providing a stage backdrop in live entertainment venue The Sound Bar. Outdoor displays included 10mm LED façade and ticker displays. Outdoor digital...
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2023-04-18

Jingcai Technology provides a new Micro LED inspection solution

From April 19th to 21st, the “2023 Touch Taiwan Series Exhibition-Smart Display Exhibition” was grandly launched in Hall 1 of Nangang Exhibition Center. It is the largest electronic technology industry event in Taiwan in the first half of the year. Show smart display, smart manufacturing, and applications and solutions in related fields such as international industrial materials. Jingcai Technology provides a series of inspection solutions including Micro LED, Micro OLED, FOPLP, TFT LCD, Touch Panel, electronic paper, OLED and oth...
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2023-04-18

TCL takes aim at OLED with 'highest brightness levels to date' in mini-LED TVs

TCL's showcasing the impressive TVs at Milan Design Week (Image credit: TCL) Since 2018, TCL has been making the most of slightly-cheaper-than-OLED mini-LED TV technology. And now, the firm's promising bigger and better things with its latest-generation version, claiming an "even better visual experience with high and precise contrast, less blooming, high brightness, and a better uniformity". How is it taking aim at the best OLED TVs? You've guessed it: brightness. TCL's new mini-LED TVs apparently boast the highest...
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2023-04-18

New 905 nm edge-emitting laser diode from ams OSRAM features low-cost plastic package for consumer and industry applications

SPL PL90AT03 infrared laser diode offers 75 W peak power and narrow 110 µm aperture for superior performance in long-distance LiDAR and time-of-flight sensing applications Ideal for 3D sensing applications such as robotics, factory automation, drones, range finders and smart cities and logistics Cost-effective plastic package for consumer and industry applications supporting short pulses with a duration from a few ns to 100 ns Premstaetten, Austria and Munich, Germany (12 April 2023) -- ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical soluti...
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2023-04-18

Volvo EX90 Electric SUV Will Feature Seoul Semiconductor’s SunLike LED Lighting

SunLike LED technology chosen by Volvo First application in production vehicles, following residential spaces, hospitals, schools, museums, and horticultural facilities Increases passenger comfort, such as boosting memory, better visual comfort, natural light replication, etc.   ANSAN, South Korea--Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:046890), a global optical semiconductor company, has announced that the new Volvo EX90 Electric SUV will feature its SunLike LED lights. This is the first application of the SunLike technolo...
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2023-04-18

Unveiling the World's First 4K Direct-emitting QLED Display

Quantum dots have long been the secret weapon in the world of LCD backlights, offering a narrow emission spectrum, high color purity, and saturation, and the ability to achieve a wide color gamut. However, there has not been a direct-emitting quantum dot LED display on the market.   Until recently, Saphlux Inc. and Leyard Group have unveiled the world's first 4K 162-inch direct-emitting QLED display at their annual investor conference. This groundbreaking display is a game-changer in the world of screens, as it marks the first time that quantum dots have been ...
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2023-04-17

TrendForce’s 2023 Next-Gen Display Seminar Ends Successfully with No Empty Seats

On March 30, 2023, TrendForce held the 2023 TrendForce Next-Generation Display Industry Seminar at JW Marriott Hotel in Shenzhen, China, with its affiliated LEDinside and WitsView. Over a thousand representatives from the display industry gathered at the conference to explore the next-generation display technologies. The conference began with an opening speech by Sara Fan, general manager at TrendForce (Shenzhen), who extended a warm welcome and gratitude to all the attendees, expressing her best wishes for the future development of the next-gen display i...
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2023-04-17

Planar and OptiTrack Present Their Most Advanced Set of Broadcast Technologies at NAB 2023

Via Planar Studios, the companies continue to support today’s diverse broadcast production and content creation needs, furthering their leadership position in extended and virtual reality Planar and OptiTrack to showcase their diverse and improved advanced broadcast technologies at NAB 2023. (Photo: Business Wire) LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, and sister company OptiTrack, the worldwide leader in 3D tracking systems, today, at the 2023 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)...
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2023-04-17

Thousands of drivers sign petition calling for ban on 'blinding' vehicle headlights

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="https://abc11.com/video/embed/?pid=13118601" width="476"></iframe>PHILADELPHIA -- If you feel blinded by the lights when driving, you're not alone. Thousands are complaining that vehicle headlights are getting brighter and causing more glare and at least one group says it's dangerous. About half of all fatal crashes happen in the dark and headlights make a difference in crash rates. The Soft Lights Foundation is calling for a ban on what it calls "blinding headlights", circulat...
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2023-04-17

Volvo EX90 uses SunLike LEDs to provide near-sunlight illumination for more natural interior lighting

Volvo has revealed that the fully electric EX90 SUV uses interior lighting that approaches sunlight in appearance in order to bring a more natural illumination to the vehicle’s cabin. Named SunLike LEDs and supplied by Seoul Semiconductor, the non-flickering lights complement the panoramic roof and glasshouse, and these LEDs enable a more natural colour expression that is beyond what is currently achievable with existing LEDs used in the automotive industry today, says Volvo; these deliver low light reflection and a high colour index that shows colours as the...
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2023-04-14

ASUS to debut new ProArt displays including 135-inch micro LED screen

The new ProArt Cinema PQ07 in all its 135-inch glory Product launches from ASUS in Vegas will include the 135-in ProArt Cinema PQ07 — the first ASUS micro LED display — and the ProArt Display PA24US, the first ProArt monitor with SDI connectivity. There’s more as well. Two new ASUS ProArt products will be launched during the 2023 NAB Show, so let’s start at the top with the ASUS ProArt Cinema PQ07 as it’s a 135-inch (yes, 135-inch) 4K HDR monitor featuring advanced panel technologies, an ultra-s...
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Figure 1. Overall concept of face-fit surface-lighting micro-LEDs (FSLED) mask. a. Optical image of the FSLED mask showing uniform surface-lighting. schematic illustration of the FSLED mask. The 2D to 3D transformation procedure b. Difference ... READ MORE

The next generation of high-performance LEDs is now available: the OSCONIQ® C 3030 from ams OSRAM. Engineered for demanding outdoor and stadium lighting applications, this cutting-edge LED series combines exceptional intensity with thermal... READ MORE