2024-01-04

AUO debuts at CES 2024, and is Transforming the Concept of Smart Mobility

Unveiling Industry-Leading Automotive Display HMI Solutions, Featuring New Micro LED Applications for Smart Cockpit and Human-Machine Interaction  HSINCHU, Jan. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AUO, a global leader in display technology, will make its CES debut in Las Vegas on January 9th, alongside leading automotive manufacturers. AUO's exhibit will feature advanced display technologies and solutions, including the company's revolutionary Micro LED. It will highlight a range of in-vehicle display HMI solutions and extended mobility ...
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2023-11-30

TrendForce 2023 Micro LED Market Trend and Technology Cost Analysis-2H23 Gives Comprehensive Updates on the Micro LED Industry in 2H23

Market Scale Analysis The year 2023 marks the commercialization of Micro LED as a display technology. For example, Samsung announced large-sized Micro LED displays. Although less than a hundred of such displays have been shipped throughout the year, the shipment of Micro LED displays is likely to jump by 10 times in 2024 with an expected increase in the yield rate of relevant components. Despite its mass production being postponed to 2026, the high-profile Micro LED Apple Watch has prompted the entry of 8-inch production lines into the Micro LED manufacturing p...
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2023-09-12

Porotech optimizes bonding process, actively implements MicroLED mass production

"Porotech, a pioneer in the microLED field, is honoured to have been invited to participate in the ""Metaverse X Technological Evolution X Application Innovation"" Forum. Porotech shared their game-changing technology - DPT® (Dynamic Pixel Tuning®) in the forum, and how to use wafer to wafer bonding technology to achieve the commercialization goal of high-yield, low-cost, full-colour microLED mass production, truly bringing microLED into everyone's life. " Micro LED has been hailed as the new star of the next displa...
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2023-07-14

San’an Announces Earnings Guidance for 1H23, Expecting a Drop in LED Chip Revenue

On the evening of July 11, San’an Optoelectronics announced its earnings guidance for the first half of 2023. Due to a decrease in selling prices of LED chips and increased accrued expenses, the chipmaker expects a year-on-year decline of over 75% in net profit for 1H23. Earnings to Shrink with a 15.24% Decrease in LED Chip Revenue Due to the slow demand recovery in 1H23, San’an posted a year-on-year drop in revenue to 6.469 billion yuan (4.33% YoY), with operating costs growing 4.42% to 5.592 billion yuan and gross margin being cut by 530 million yuan...
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2023-07-12

A Comprehensive Guide to Global Micro OLED Manufacturers

With the release of Apple’s Vision Pro, its Micro OLED display technology has caught the attention of many. In fact, global Micro OLED display manufacturers have been working in this field for many years. In recent years, Chinese players have been particularly active in this area. How have various manufacturers progressed? What products have they launched, and what applications have they achieved? This article aims to provide you with a basic understanding of the global Micro OLED manufacturers' situation. eMagin eMagin Corporation was founded i...
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2023-07-07

【Early Bird Discount】Micro LED: Metaverse X Technological Evolution X Application Innovation

Time:September 5th, 2023 Venue:Room 401, National Taiwan University Hospital International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan. Price:Early Bird Discount USD 220 (until July 5th, 2023, the original price is USD 280)   Overview: Apple’s reported plans to integrate Micro LED into future Apple Watch models has reignited interest in field of micro-display. Aiming to seize burgeoning opportunities from various micro-display applications, companies involved in the display industry are now ramping up efforts to develop and promote rel...
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2023-06-30

AUO Consecutively Recognized by the Manufacturing Leadership Awards for AI-Driven Digital Innovation in Enabling Efficient Digital Supply Chains

Igniting Digital Transformation through Organizational and Cultural Changes: AUO University Cultivating Internal Cross-Domain Experts, Driving the AUO Transformational Strides AUO today announced that it has received the Manufacturing Leadership Awards (MLA) by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) for the second time. With its advanced digital technology and smart solutions, AUO has maintained stable manufacturing production and smart management during a period of global transformation throughout the industry, and has been recognized in th...
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2023-06-12

SID 2023 Brings Focus to Microdisplays Powered by Mini/Micro LED

On May 23, SID 2023 (Display Week 2023) kicked off in California, USA, with more than 200 exhibitors attending the three-day event. This year, most attention was drawn to microdisplays engineered with Mini/Micro LED and Micro OLED for AR/VR wearables. Several leading companies, including Saphflux, Seoul Semiconductor, JBD, Porotech, TCL CSOT and BOE, showcased their latest microdisplay offerings. SAPHLUX Saphlux exhibited three products at SID 2023. The LED maker unveiled a prototype of a 0.39-inch RGB microdisplay designed...
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2023-06-07

TrendForce’s Outlook on 2023 Mini/Micro LED Technologies

To date, Mini/Micro LED hasn’t went into mass production, which is not as planned but in line with expectation. Anyhow, what matters is that the path to success has become much clearer even though arriving the destination of full-scale production still takes a period of time. In 2022, amid macroeconomic headwinds, Mini/Micro LED faced complicated challenges while embraced more opportunities. To some extent, the industry found silver linings in addressing problems at both supply and demand sides, including technical hurdles, cost issue, terminal applications and demands pr...
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2023-05-31

【New Arrival】Micro LED Report- The Rise of Micro LED Smartwatches: Wearable Chip Revenue to Hit USD 463 Million in 2025

As TrendForce specifies in its latest report “TrendForce 2023 Micro LED Market Trend and Technology Cost Analysis”, although revenue from Micro LED chips installed in wearables (mainly smartwatches) are estimated to be only USD 3 million in 2023, the number will skyrocket to USD 172 million and USD 463 million in 2024 and 2025, respectively, as Apple starts to adopt Micro LED displays for its new watches. The new Apple Watch will likely prompt other brands to develop and promote Micro LED wearables. Micro LED chip market value from weara...
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2023-05-30

SID Spotlight: Porotech's World's First Active Matrix Full-Color MicroLED Display Wins "Best New Display Component" Award

Porotech, a global leader in MicroLED and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology innovation, unveiled the world's first 0.26-inch active matrix full-color Micro LED display at the 2023 SID Display Week event. Through the votes and evaluations of professional attendees and judges, Porotech's display stood out among hundreds of cutting-edge products and was honored with the "Best New Display Component" award. During the SID exhibition, held in Los Angeles from May 24th to 26th, 2023, Porotech showcased its unique DPT® (Dynami...
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2023-05-24

Embracing the “Year of Micro LED Mass Production”, ASMPT Unveils New Laser Mass Transfer Equipment

This year, Touch Taiwan 2023 set the tone for the year with its “Micro LED: The Year of Mass Production” exhibition. Micro LED has been facing challenges in mass transfer, bonding, and testing. With the integration of upstream, midstream, and downstream manufacturers and technological advancements, however, commercialization is no longer an empty slogan but an anticipated future. AUO plans to commence mass production of Micro LED watches in November and December this year, making its entry into the commercial market imminent. Chairman Shuang-lang ...
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2023-05-23

Breakthrough Applications for Micro LED Create New Technological Possibilities for AUO at Display Week 2023

Transparent, Blended, and Foldable Display Technologies are Penetrating into the Diversified Field Domains and Revolutionizing the Gaming Market AUO Corporation (AUO) has constantly been improving the company’s technological research and development capabilities over the years. As a result, the company has successfully set up a comprehensive Micro LED ecosystem, and Micro LED technology is now ready for widespread commercialization and mass production. AUO is participating in Display Week 2023, a global exhibition for display technologies and companie...
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2023-05-15

Society for Information Display Unveils 2023 Display Industry Award Winners

Recipients of 29th Annual Awards recognized for the year's most significant technological advances CAMPBELL, Calif., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society for Information Display (SID) is pleased to announce the winners of its 29th Annual Display Industry Awards. The 2023 Display Industry Award (DIA) recipients reflect the ever-evolving display and imaging product landscape and represent a wide range of technological advancements with products designed to make devices that are more sustainable, economical, and engaging while providing users with a ...
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2023-05-15

PhC PressRelease Nitride Semiconductors

May 10, 2023 Nitride Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Founder, President & CEO Yoshihiko Muramoto ◆Overview We have succeeded to develop the Photonic Crystal (hereinafter referred to as PhC) on which 100 nm size nanofabrication is performed on an ultraviolet LED (hereinafter referred to as UV-LED) with a wavelength of 385nm. We confirmed the light confinement effect of the PhC. ◆ Background A photonic crystal is a structure in which the refractive index changes periodically, and is used to confine light in a small area and enhance the interaction betwe...
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2023-05-09

Everything you need to know about Samsung's R3 million Micro LED TV

Samsung 110" Micro LED TV (Supplied) Samsung Electronics recently launched its Micro LED TV, costing between R1.4 million and R3 million. The ultra-premium TV is available in sizes that range from 76” to 126” and offers a state-of-the-art display, life-like colours, and advanced sound quality, says Samsung. Samsung has partnered with Cinema Architects in Kramerville, Sandton, where people can buy the TV. For more stories, visit the Tech and Trends homepage.  Samsung Electronics recently launched its new ultra-premi...
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2023-04-27

Ennostar's Six Arrows Shot at Once at Touch Taiwan: An Insight into Next-gen Display Technology

HSINCHU, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ennostar Group (Stock Code: 3714) and its subsidiaries (EPISTAR, Lextar, Unikorn, Yenrich and ProLight) together greatly exhibited the latest cutting-edge technology products and research and development technology to demonstrate the comprehensive benefits of group integration at 2023 Touch Taiwan with the theme of "Lead the Way" which focused on topics of Micro LED, Mini LED, automotive, sensing, metaverse and next-generation compound semiconductor. Showing technology re-evolution and planting new e...
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2023-04-26

【Touch Taiwan 2023】The Rise of Micro LED

【Touch Taiwan 2023】The Rise of Micro LED Touch Taiwan 2023 was held from April 19 to 21, 2023 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, where Micro LED applications were extended to automotive displays, AR/VR, watches, and other wearable devices that are thinner, smaller with high brightness and low power consumption. Major exhibitors included Ennostar and its subsidiaries Epistar, Lextar, Unikorn, Yenrich, and Prolight, along with PlayNitride, AUO, Innolux, Kulicke & Soffa, ASMPT, Shin-Etsu Chemical, Coherent, Stroke PAE, Sitan, Macrobl...
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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

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

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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2023-04-17

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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2023-04-13

AUO leads ecosystem partners toward commercialized Micro LED mass production

At Touch Taiwan 2023, AUO and its ecosystem partners will showcase a variety of modules, systems, and solutions ranging from LED chips, mass transfer technology, and packaging, highlighting its crucial milestone in the commercialization of Micro LED technology. As AUO pioneers mass production of the 1.39-inch Micro LED Smartwatch, it signals the start of end product development and sets sail toward the new blue ocean in smart living. Micro LED displays offer advantages including high brightness, high contrast, wide color gamut, wide viewing angle, and high rel...
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2023-03-24

TrendForce: LED Market Value Likely to Hit USD 21.013 Billion in 2027

According to TrendForce’s latest report “Gold+ Member: Global LED Industry Data Base and LED Player Movement Quarterly Update”, soaring raw material costs and high inflation caused by the Russia–Ukraine war and pandemic woes in China have slashed consumer market demand and increased end product inventories. Therefore, TrendForce analyzes that the LED market value shrunk to USD 14.214 billion in 2022 (-19% YoY). Except for the 40% growth rate of the Mini LED backlight market, general lighting, architectural lighting, agricultural l...
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2023-02-16

ams OSRAM Stands to Benefit from Apple Adopting Micro LED for Its Products, Says TrendForce

According to TrendForce, Apple is expected to adopt Micro LED for its consumer electronic products in the close future. The Apple Watch will likely be the first among Apple’s products to feature a Micro LED display, and the adoption is anticipated to occur in 2024. Then, during the period from 2026 to 2030, the application scope of Micro LED could expand to encompass AR headset displays, smartphone displays, automotive displays, etc. The Apple Watch as a product line was launched in 2015 and has been in the market for more than eight years. The Apple Wat...
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2023-02-09

Shin-Etsu Chemical has developed new process technologies, transfer parts and other equipment for Micro LED displays

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Tokyo; President: Yasuhiko Saitoh) has developed new process technologies that can be applied for the manufacturing of Micro LED displays. The size of a Micro LED chip is not visible to the naked eye, with the length of one side being less than 50 μm (micrometers). For example, in order to manufacture one 4K display that has 4 times the resolution of a conventional high-definition screen, it is necessary to precisely array about 24.90 million chips. In order to implement improveme...
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2023-02-01

MICLEDI Microdisplays Highlights Best-in-Class microLEDs for Ultra-Compact Displays at SPIE AR-VR-MR Exhibition

This week at SPIE AR-VR-MR at Photonics West, MICLEDI Microdisplays, a leading technology company in the field of microLED (µLED) displays for high def, ultra-compact displays, will be on hand to demonstrate its portfolio of R, G and B GaN µLEDs. These demonstrations will highlight excellent color performance in blue, green and red across the full range of drive currents for many different types of appliances demanding ultra-compact display modules. At the show, MICLEDI will also display red AlInGaP performance results from initial ...
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2023-01-30

AIXTRON launches the new G10-AsP system at Photonic West / AIXTRON’s planetary technology sets the ground for the next generation of high-resolution Micro LED displays and lasers

AIXTRON’s planetary technology sets the ground for the next generation of high-resolution Micro LED displays and lasers AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6) launches the first fully automated AsP platform to the market. The new system G10-AsP addresses the growing demands in the fields of Micro LED and laser devices. As first system in the industry, the G10-AsP enables a robust high-volume production which is linked to very high and complex requirements. “Micro LEDs will revolutionize the world of displays as t...
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2023-01-19

Apple Watch Reportedly to Come with Micro LED Starting Next year

On January 11, the foreign media reported that Apple will likely adopt Micro LED panels for highly priced Apple Watches next year, thereby bolstering morale among the long-term depressed panel industry. Taiwanese businesses from the top three Micro LED groups hold that the news will help expand the Micro LED market scale with increased popularity, which is favorable for the entire industry. As Bloomberg reported, Apple is planning to introduce the customized self-developed 2.1" Micro LED panel to its advanced Apple Watch Ultra model in late 2024. The exis...
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ams OSRAM’s OSIRE® E3731i and Stand-Alone Intelligent Driver (SAID) use OSP license-free protocol to connect color LEDs, sensors and microcontrollers. ams OSRAM, a global leader in intelligent emitting and sensing technologies, will... READ MORE

JBD, a pioneering MicroLED display manufacturer, has set a new standard with its Phoenix series microdisplay, achieving an industry-record white-balanced brightness of 2 million nits. JBD’s Phoenix - Native Monolithic RGB Panel Leveragin... READ MORE