ams OSRAM confirms the finalization of the divestiture of the Digital Systems business in Europe and Asia to Inventronics This closing represents the last of the communicated disposals following the acquisition of OSRAM ams OSRAM will continue to focus on the high technology semiconductor business and its automotive and specialty lamps business Premstaetten, Austria and Munich, Germany (4 April 2023) -- ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, announced today that the disposal of the Digital Systems business in Europe a...

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed an LED lamp unit that projects patterns in vehicle interiors using shadow. This product will be used on the new Lexus RZ battery electric vehicle from Toyota Motor. A plate with delicate decorative patterns is built into the LED lamp unit that was mainly used in the interior lighting. This projects an attractive ornamental design on the door interior to present a fresh impression at night, as if the vehicle interior had been given a makeover. Toyoda Gosei’s optical technology prevents passenger shadows by projecting light dia...

PxE Holographic Imaging – a company that develops holographic imaging cameras – announced that it comes out of stealth with a $5.4 million Seed Round led by KDT – Koch Disruptive Technologies (the technology investment arm of Koch Industries) and M Ventures (the venture investment arm of Merck). This latest funding round adds to the initial pre-seed investment by M Ventures, which together with several non-dilutive grants, brings the total investment in the company to $6.5 million since inception. PxE’s holographic imaging technology makes it ...

Funding led by NEA and Khosla Ventures New CEO Nikhil Balram brings semiconductor and display expertise to company.   SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, today announced a $22.4 million new Series A investment round to propel the development and commercialization of its micro-LED display technology for consumer, enterprise and government applications. The funding round is led by existing investors, NEA and Khosla Ventures, with participation from additional investors including Dolb...

Aldo Kamper joins as CEO of ams OSRAM His priority is to further develop the strategic focus and execution ability of ams OSRAM Brings long-time experience in the semiconductor industry Premstaetten, Austria and Munich, Germany (1 April 2023) – ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, today announced that Aldo Kamper has become active in his role as CEO and Chairman of the Management Board at the company. He was appointed and announced in this role by the ams OSRAM Supervisory Board on 30 January 20...

Today, Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, announced a new Series A investment round led by New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) and Khosla Ventures. This investment will propel the development and commercialization of its micro-LED display technology — a market forecasted to exceed $160 billion by 2026. Mojo Vision’s micro-LED technology delivers a world-record pixel pitch of over 14,000ppi. Their High Performance Quantum Dot (HPQD) technology creates small, bright, and efficient RGB pixels. The design uses an advanced ...

These laptops are among the lightest and slimmest 16-inch gaming laptops, and a mini-LED screen version is also offered. The variants pack an Intel Core i9-13900HX processor, which has 24 cores, 32 threads, and a 5.4GHz clock speed. A later date will see the introduction of Intel Core i7 processor options. HP has unveiled the OMEN Transcend 16 gaming laptops. These laptops are among the lightest and slimmest 16-inch gaming laptops, and a mini-LED screen version is also offered. The variants pack an Intel Core i9-13900HX processor, which has 24 cores, 32 thr...

News from Greater Wellington Regional Council More than 6,000 energy efficient lights are to be installed at Sky Stadium after a grant application was partially approved at today’s Council meeting. The Wellington Regional Stadium Trust will receive $750,000 to partly fund the purchase and installation of 6,200 LED lights, an essential step in its Energy Transition Plan. The stadium, which is part owned by the regional council, will fund the balance of the work. Greater Wellington Climate Committee Chair and Stadium Trustee Penny Gaylor says the...

IKEA and Little Sun have announced two new solar LED lamps in the jointly developed SAMMANLÄNKAD range. The table and ceiling lamps come with a detachable half-sphere light source, which can be recharged via integrated solar panels or USB. The USB ports can also charge small gadgets on the go.   IKEA has collaborated with Little Sun to develop new products for the SAMMANLÄNKAD lamp range. Little Sun is a nonprofit organization which produces affordable alternative energy solutions. Two LED lamps are available in the line...

According to TrendForce’s 2023 Deep UV LED Market Trend and Product Analysis, the pandemic woes in China affected both supply chains and new project investments across the UV-A LED sector in 2022, where the market demand for PCB exposure machines and LCD lamination equipment—related to consumer electronics—dropped dramatically. In the UV-C LED sector, most home appliance manufacturers delayed product development plans due to weak consumer spending, indicating their lower willingness to introduce UV-C LED products. Further, UV LED...

Some reports suggest that Samsung could soon receive the key for manufacturing highly efficient MicroLED screens. Some researchers at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) have discovered a new method that entitles modifying the epitaxial structure of MicroLEDs. When it comes to manufacturing highly-efficient MicroLED screens, one of the biggest problems is efficiency degradation. In other words, we can say that the etching process has the potential to create defects on the pixel sides. There is an inverse relation between pixels and d...

Touch Taiwan 2023, one of the largest exhibitions in Asia for the semiconductor and display industries, is set to take place from April 19 to 21 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1. The exhibition will feature the latest and most advanced MicroLED related products and display technologies from leading companies such as AUO, Innolux, Ennostar, E Ink, Corning, Merck, GIS, PlayNitride, BenQ and Macroblock. Micro LED display technology has emerged as a promising technology for the next generation of displays, offering higher brightness, better colo...

Smart City Summit & Expo 2023 starts from March 28 to March 31 in Taipei, Taiwan. Macroblock and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) jointly participate in the drone project and build a “Smart Drone Station” to demonstrate a remote-operated drone cockpit at the exhibition. The aerial operation station attracts international visitors’ eyeballs. Macroblock and ITRI are demonstrating a more intelligent and safer operation station for drone applications at the booth. Picture 1. Macroblock embraces customers to experience smart dr...

For the first time, the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (President Sang Jin Park, hereby termed as KIMM), an institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, has invented a new stretchable meta-display technology that can be extended up to 25% without image degradation. Dr. Bongkyun Jang, a senior researcher at KIMM’s Department of Nano-Mechanics, and members of his research group have produced a distortion-free stretchable meta-display during uniaxial stretching, and their results were published in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Functi...

March 23, 2023 ,the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to methods of moving objects in 3D environments in an XR Headset, on future Macs and iDevices, specifically an iPad using both eye and hand-tracking gestures. In Apple's patent background they note that methods and interfaces for interacting with environments that include at least some virtual elements (e.g., applications, augmented reality environments, mixed reality environments, and virtual reality environments) are cumbersome, inefficient, and limited. For...

RedMagic, a sub-brand of Nubia famous for its gaming phones, announced this Tuesday (28) the launch of its new monitor for games in the global market. REDMAGIC 4K Gaming Monitor is another bet on the hardware market for PC gamers that highlights its high resolution screen with good fluidity. The monitor is equipped with a 27 inch Mini LED backlit display with IPS LCD technology and 1,152 light divisions, allowing the screen to offer a high contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 and an excellent peak brightness of 1,300 nits with HDR support, which guarantees its V...

Record year for submissions puts Signify in the top 10 European-headquartered companies, remaining #1 in the lighting industry and at #22 worldwide. Eindhoven, the Netherlands – Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, continued to extend its industry-leading IP portfolio with a record year for submissions in 2022, placing in the top 10 European-headquartered companies, first in the lighting industry, and climbing to 22nd worldwide in the European Patent Office (EPO) rankings. “Our innovations benefit the environment and society with...

Separate lawsuits allege IP violations by major grocery chain, bank A new method for capturing face, fingerprint and iris biometrics from under the display of an electronic device is the subject of a patent application from Apple newly published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The published patent application, spotted by Patently Apple, describes the use of infrared sensors, possibly quantum film infrared sensors, to capture various user biometrics, and possible hand gestures. Quantum film is a kind of thin semiconductor film, made up of colloidal quantum do...

On March 27, LG Display announced that it would borrow 1 trillion won (US$771 million) from LG Electronics to sharpen its OLED business competitiveness and preemptively secure operating funds. The borrowing period is three years, from March 30 2023 to March 30, 2026. Its interest rate is 6.06 percent per annum. It is a borrowing payable in one year with a two-year grace period. As of the end of 2022, LG Display’s cash and cash equivalents amounted to 1.8246 trillion won (US$1.4064 billion). Nevertheless, it received the preemptive loan in order to boost ...

Samsung closed a new partnership to advance in the micro LED market with advantages over competitors. From the studies carried out at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), there seems to be a way to manufacture small ultra-high resolution micro LED screens that generate less heat and do not suffer efficiency degradation. KAIST would contribute to this by changing the epitaxial structure of micro LEDs. This would help solve the main problem linked to wearables and augmented and virtual reality glasses, which is the degradation of effici...

Focusing on COB Display Panels, MTC Develops Mini/Micro LED Markets in Three WaysConsidering the enormous potential of COB packages for fine-pitch and ultra-fine pitch applications, MTC Display plans to secure more shares in the Mini/Micro LED display market in three steps: 1) penetrating the P1.0-P2.0 face-up market, 2) expanding to the market of P1.0 microdisplays and those with higher density, and 3) covering high-end Micro LED TVs with a pixel pitch of P0.5 and smaller.

Hisense has introduced the TV E8K line of advanced TVs in China in China. Despite the name, the devices use 4K resolution panels, but not simple, but Mini LED. The series is represented by two models – with screens with a diagonal of 85 and 100 inches. In the first, respectively, 1296 backlight zones, in the second – 1620. Peak brightness in both cases reaches 1600 cd / sq.m., 95% of the DCI-P3 color space is also covered. The hardware platform is based on SoC MT9653 with a quad-core processor. The younger model has 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB...

Hisense has introduced the TV E8K line of advanced TVs in China in China. Despite the name, the devices use 4K resolution panels, but not simple, but Mini LED. The series is represented by two models – with screens with a diagonal of 85 and 100 inches. In the first, respectively, 1296 backlight zones, in the second – 1620. Peak brightness in both cases reaches 1600 cd / sq.m., 95% of the DCI-P3 color space is also covered. The hardware platform is based on SoC MT9653 with a quad-core processor. The younger model has 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB...

Continental AG displayed its connected solution for tire maintenance and management, as well as a line of solid-state LED lighting products for construction work vehicles and trucks at CONEXPO. Continental AG reinforced its focus on providing digital and connected solutions for work vehicles and the off-highway automotive industry at CONEXPO in Las Vegas, Nevada. During a press conference at the event, the company presented several robust products for construction vehicles.   ContiConnect 2.0 Advanced ContiConnect 2.0 Advanced is a seamless ti...

PENN 2 revamped design by MdeAS Architects. Rendering by DBOX for Vornado Realty Trust. Modernization work is shaping up on PENN 2, a 31-story commercial building at Two Penn Plaza in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by MdeAS Architects and developed by Vornado Realty Trust, the project involves the replacement of the 412-foot-tall tower’s aging midcentury façade with a lighter glass curtain wall and the full gut renovation of its 1.61 million square feet of office space, as well as the construction of new pocketed corner terraces and a multist...

SEOUL, South Korea, March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PRAZEN (CEO/Heekyung Kim), a Korean startup specialized in optics for augmented reality (AR) products will present unique new AR glasses and an AR projector at AWE 2023 (May 31 -June 2, Santa Clara, California, USA). PRAZEN To Present Innovative AR Solution at AWE 2023 The AR glasses of Prazen has a peculiar optical layout of "Direct Projection", unlike the other previously announced AR glasses. PRAZEN's AR optical module shows much higher light effic...

Horticultural lighting in indoor growing facilities and nighttime treatment with specific wavelengths on outdoor crops are under review for effectiveness in reducing pests and diseases that impact yields and profits. New research suggests that indoor growers and greenhouse operators use lighting in order to increase the effectiveness of fighting pests as part of an Integrated Pest Management program. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach to managing pests that combines methods and strategies, including physical, biological, and chemical processes. IPM cre...

Cariitti Oy prepares to launch two new durable sauna lighting solutions The new LED lighting product will be the first of two new Cariitti Oy products launched in May Credit: Caritti Oy This May, Finnish spa and wellness engineering company Cariitti Oy will launch Sauna Ultra Ambient, a new type of LED strip designed specifically for saunas. “We created Sauna Ultra Ambient to offer a reliable and durable LED lighting solution for saunas,” explained Peter Ruokonen, CEO and owner of Cariitti Oy. “The new lighting system wi...

SWIR hyperspectral imaging can be used for applications such as mine detection, agricultural crop health monitoring, humanitarian aid, and logistics. ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. Air Force researchers needed a company to develop extended-wavelength shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensors for hyperspectral imaging aboard unmanned aircraft. They found their solution from Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc. in Monmouth Junction, N.J. Officials of the Air Force work project office called AFWERX in Arlington, Va., has announced a $749,961 small business...

TCP announced its first line of LED lighting that reduces the amount of active microbes in the indoor air while it illuminates.   Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP), a leader in innovation for commercial and residential LED lighting, is excited to announce its first line of LED lighting that reduces the amount of active microbes in the indoor air while it illuminates. How Innovative PurEssentials Line Addresses Marketplace Demands The timing is perfect as the COVID era of spending more time at home has increased consumer demand for homes tha...