Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Absen, the global leader in LED display technology and solutions, will demonstrate the power of collaboration at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2026 on stand 3M400.Together, Absen and its ecosystem partners will deliver immersive, intelligent and highly integrated visual experiences across the show floor, reinforcing Absen’s commitment to driving real-world performance through scalable LED display solutions for 25 years. Solutions Across the ISE Show Floor Beyond the Absen stand, Absen LED products and pa...

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, today announced further advancement of its integrated Pro AV ecosystem, as it strengthens collaboration with industry partners to enable seamless, end-to-end deployments. ViewSonic bridges display products and integrated software with validated interoperability across control systems, AV-over-IP (AVoIP), cabling, networking, and content platforms. ViewSonic builds cohesive Pro AV frameworks designed to simplify large-scale, multi-space installations. “As enterprise environments become more distr...

Macroblock, a leading global manufacturer of LED driver ICs, participates in the DVN Munich Workshop that is held from February 4–5, 2026 in Munich Germany. The DVN Munich Workshop is an annual industry forum that brings together global automakers and Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive lighting industry. Macroblock Unveils Next‑Gen Automotive Lighting at DVN Munich 2026 Centered on the core theme “Shine Your Mind, Define Your Ride”, Macroblock presents its latest developments in LED color control technology and showcases a co...

LED displays continue to expand their application landscapes. More end users are now adopting LED screens for major events and venues—bringing these technologies closer to everyday life. Meanwhile, in areas such as commercial backlighting, automotive displays, and lighting, LED technology is being used to enhance HDR performance and deliver an improved driving experience. As a leading driver IC supplier, Macroblock actively contributes to advancing these innovative applications and unlocking the full potential of LED technology. Pic. 1. Macroblock showcases i...

Cree LED®, a Penguin Solutions brand, today announced OptiLamp™ LEDs, a new display technology that integrates driver and control intelligence directly into every LED pixel. Built on patented Cree LED technology, the OptiLamp portfolio advances LED display design by delivering superior image quality with reduced power consumption and a streamlined system architecture. Unlike conventional LED displays that rely on external driver ICs and multiplexing, OptiLamp LEDs actively manage output and health at the pixel level, inside the LED package. ...

Shulin Dist., New Taipei City– February 3, 2026– Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Everlight”) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Lumileds Holding B.V. and Lumileds, LLC (hereinafter “Lumileds”) in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware on February 2, 2026. The defendants are LED electronic component manufacturers. Everlight alleges that Lumileds has infringed upon its US flip-chip patent, US Patent No. 7,554,126, and that the infringing products are specific automotive LED products sold by Lumileds. 

Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota, has partnered with the American Association of Professional Baseball (AAPB) as its official video display and control equipment provider to bring education and professional sports together. “This partnership is mutually beneficial as the teams gain access to a pool of talented, trained students who are ready to jump into a career with their production teams,” said Joey Hulsebus, regional sales for Daktronics. “They are familiar with almost every aspect of the control room, including the software they use, how the...

As Nichia marks the key milestones of 70 years in business and 30 years since pioneering the white LED, its European division has organized a two-day, invite-only Innovation Gallery. Held on 10 and 11 March at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, a prestigious art gallery in Frankfurt, the showcase takes place during Light + Building week (8–13 March 2026). The regional team chose this timing to complement the trade fair experience for visitors already in the city. Nichia’s portfolio goes beyond general and architectural lighting that dominates the exhibition hall...

Daktronics (NASDAQ: DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, has partnered with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to manufacture and install two end zone video displays at Princess Auto Stadium in Manitoba, Canada. The end zone displays complement last year’s addition of ribbon displays and Daktronics Show Control system, and are currently being installed for events in 2026. “Delivering an outstanding game‑day experience is always a top priority for our organization,” said Blue Bombers President Wade Miller. “The new end zone displays represent a...

ams OSRAM and Traxon Lighting Ltd. officially announced the long-term extension of their strategic brand licensing partnership well into the next decade, reinforcing the continued presence of the OSRAM brand in key Asian markets. Several lighting products will further shine under the OSRAM name in China. With the successful extension of the existing brand license agreement, Traxon Technologies Limited and its Chinese subsidiary Traxon Lighting Ltd. have taken an important step: They will continue to hold their unique position as long-term licensees for a b...

Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and Blizzard Lighting LLC (‘Blizzard’) today announced that they have reached a mutually beneficial settlement resolving a patent infringement dispute involving Cree LED’s patents related to LED components commonly used in LED displays. As part of the settlement, Cree LED has granted Blizzard a limited license to certain Cree LED patents covering LED components. Cree LED is firmly committed to protecting its intellectual property as part of its broader mission to drive innovat...

ALLOS Semiconductors of Germany and Ennostar Corporation of Taiwan today announced a strategic partnership to bring 200 mm GaN-on-Si (gallium nitride on silicon) LED epiwafers for microLED applications into volume production. This collaboration represents a key milestone in establishing a silicon fab-compatible supply chain for microLED products. ALLOS Semiconductors and Ennostar announce strategic partnership for 200 mm GaN-on-Si epiwafers Through this partnership, ALLOS will be able to deliver its industry-leading GaN-on-Si epiwafers at the v...

The Fighting Illini turned to Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, to design, manufacture and install the largest main video display in college football, totaling 17,300+ square feet. The project includes 16 LED displays that combine for more than 26,750 square feet and 30 million pixels at Gies Memorial Stadium on campus at the University of Illinois in Champaign. The project will be completed ahead of the 2026 college football season. “We are excited to partner with Daktronics to bring the largest videoboard in college football to G...

Since January 1, 2026, drivers in Spain have been required to carry certified V16 warning lights on expressways and highways, which are directly connected to the traffic authorities when in use. With the LEDguardian ROAD FLARE Signal V16 IoT, ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS) offers a powerful solu-tion with a light range of up to 1,000 meters – for even greater visibility and protection, di-rectly from the car. In Germany, people who have broken down or been involved in an acci-dent can draw even more attention to themselves with approved warning lights such as...

The design of consumer products has for years been moving towards an ever sleeker and smoother aesthetic. The mobile phone has led the trend – manufacturers first thinned the bezel, then got rid of it entirely, so that all that can be seen on the front of a premium smartphone is the display. Now the principle of smooth and sleek design has the next target in its sights: the push-buttons on the edge of the enclosure which power a device on and off, and provide basic user inputs such as volume controls. The end point of this trend is the creation of a completely smooth exterior, w...

Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand, today announced its new Level 2 (L2) Solutions portfolio, offering both standard and custom fully-populated LED PC board assemblies (PCBAs). The new lineup gives lighting manufacturers a streamlined way to source LEDs and assembled boards from a single, trusted supplier. “We continue to hear from top-tier suppliers committed to the lighting market long-term that they need a complete L2 solution," said Joe Clark, president of Cree LED. "The time is right to introduce this new portfolio. Our decades of L...

Nichia, the world's largest LED/Laser Diode manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LEDs, is pleased to announce the full-scale launch of its “Mercury-Free Project,” an initiative to replace mercury lamps used within Nichia with LED technology. This project is based on the concept of “sustainable manufacturing” and aims to replace all mercury lamps used on Nichia's production lines with LEDs by 2030. To achieve this goal, Nichia will install devices using LEDs and accelerate the development of technologies n...

Across the industrial and medical sectors, engineers and product leaders face the same persistent dilemma: how to deliver smarter, more feature-rich sensing in space- and power-constrained designs, while meeting stringent lifetime, reliability, and safety requirements? For years, the answer meant trading performance for convenience, often relying on generic chips that limited product differentiation. At ams OSRAM, these trade-offs are a thing of the past. Customization – true ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and system-level adaptation – is redefi...

Nichia, the world's largest LED/Laser Diode manufacturer and inventor of high-brightness blue and white LEDs, is pleased to announce that it is currently advancing the joint development of an intravascular laser irradiation system with Illumi Medical. This innovative system combines Nichia's next-generation laser light source technology with Illumi Medical's catheter-based phototherapy technology to enable cutting-edge deep-tissue treatment solutions. Background Until now, the use of light in medical treatments—such as photodynamic therapy (PDT)...

ams OSRAM, a global leader in innovative light and sensor solutions, will showcase how its latest solutions are powering game-changing applications in nearly every industry at CES 2026 in an invite-only meeting room at the Venetian Expo. Top experts and company executives will share technical insight into the latest lighting and sensing products, discuss current industry trends and address strategies for future growth. “Our continued CES presence demonstrates our commitment to innovation and our position as a trusted lighting and sensing leader,” said Conrad R...

Daktronics (NASDAQ: DAKT), the leading U.S.-based designer and manufacturer of dynamic video communication displays and control systems for customers worldwide, today announced the acquisition of the intellectual property (IP), equipment assets and technical expertise from X Display Company Technology Limited (XDC), a recognized leader in mass-transfer processes and MicroLED (Micro Light-Emitting Diode) technology. Daktronics believes that the acquisition will continue to differentiate Daktronics in all segments of its business, and that it represents anot...

On December 9, the three-day Live Design International (LDI) show concluded successfully in Las Vegas, USA. As the final major industry event of the year, Absen made a strong appearance with a lineup of all-star products, highlighting its technical expertise and comprehensive application capabilities in the stage and rental market. The showcase attracted significant attention and earned broad recognition from industry professionals and visitors on site. LDI is the largest stage lighting and audio technology exhibition in North America and a key platform for showcasi...

To bring advertising to life along major roadways in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Daktronics has partnered with Al Arabia Out Of Home, LLC, to manufacture and deliver 10 LED displays on skybridges above roadways. The project was completed late in 2024 to start the new year off with new messages delivered to passersby. “The LED cabinet design has greatly simplified our installation process. All assemblies are completed at the factory onto a prefabricated structure, which is then transported to the busy roads of Dubai,” said Al Arabia Senior Projec...

The future is right in front of our eyes: lighter, sleeker, and smarter than ever before. Smart glasses is no longer a distant vision; it is on the verge of becoming as natural to us as the smartphone is today. But turning this vision into reality requires more than just design concepts. With this in mind, ams OSRAM introduces VEGALED™ – its ultra compact RGGB optimized LED for LCoS & DMD projector applications and designed for micro-displays in smart glasses, pico projection and machine vision. This breakthrough combines exceptional temperatu...

The emergence of AI powered smart glasses as the next platform for personal computing has been driven by separate but complementary innovations. First, tech product manufacturers have teamed up with manufacturers of spectacles and sunglasses to make products which look attractive and fashionable, and which are comfortable to wear.  The second innovation is the development of AI agents that are rapidly improving their ability to engage in natural-language interactions with users, and to operate intelligently in the context of the user’s life (for instance, understand...

ams OSRAM is launching two new variants of the SIRIUS HRI® series for entertainment lighting. The compact Galaxy 250 and 20D short-arc HID lamps combine exceptional brightness, longer service life, and outstanding performance. Precise 2° beams and up to 6,000 hours or 8,000 hours of runtime make them the ideal choice for festivals, tours, and arenas. From festivals to touring productions, lighting designers rely on powerful and precise short-arc HID lamps to illuminate legendary entertainment shows. With the new SIRIUS HRI Galaxy 250 and 20D...

Following the successful launch of the NIGHT BREAKER LED SMART ECE H11 for headlights, ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS) is continuing its series of innovative LED retrofit solutions. In addition to the new NIGHT BREAKER LED C5W ECE, the first ECE R37-approved LED signal lamp, the company is in-troducing four more road-legal³ SMART lamp types: NIGHT BREAKER LED SMART HB3, H9, HIR2 and H19. This enables ams OSRAM to further expand its portfolio of LED retrofit solu-tions and to open up new a...

Veeco Instruments Inc., a global leader in advanced semiconductor and compound semiconductor process equipment, today announced wins with Sparrow Quantum (Denmark) and Yeungnam University (South Korea), who have selected Veeco’s Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) systems to strengthen their cutting-edge quantum research. These selections reinforce Veeco’s position as a trusted enabler of quantum innovation, with more than 30 systems installed worldwide for quantum technology development. Sparrow Quantum, a leader in quantum photonics, selected Veeco’s ...

Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and SANlight GmbH, Schruns, Austria, today announced a partnership under which SANlight will use Cree LED’s J Series® products in its new STIXX-Series luminaires. Developed for applications with limited space, the STIXX fixtures feature a slim, space-saving design with module efficiency of up to 3.1 μmol/J. Backed by LM-80 testing with TM-21 lifetimes exceeding 53,000 hours, the luminaires deliver exceptional reliability and long service life. Advanced secondary optics not only d...

Silanna UV is pleased to announce its new NozzleShield UV Water Dispenser Disinfection Application. This innovative technology uses 235nm (235 nanometre wavelength) UV-C LEDs to rapidly disinfect water dispensers, effectively eliminating bacteria and virus buildup. This ensures that water dispensers remain free from harmful bacteria, providing a significant benefit for companies looking to enhance their product features. Scientific Tests Confirm Safety and Efficacy Many studies demonstrate the effectiveness of Far UV-C against various pathogens, including S...