The concept of metaverse signifies a revolution in market economies. As the term goes viral, LEDinside—the optoelectronic research division of research company TrendForce—estimates that social media, gaming, content creation, virtual economy and industrial applications will be the focus of development in the coming years. In addition to enhanced semiconductor performance and expanded coverage of low-latency high-speed networks, AR/VR device penetration will be a key factor for metaverse development. As a leading multinational firm providing innovative IoT soluti...

The concept of metaverse has recently gone viral among news such as Facebook going Meta and Microsoft announcing a plan to launch a software tool for metaverse in the coming months, which has largely contributed to the rapid development of AR/VR/mixed reality (MR) technologies. Currently, numerous consumer electronics and related companies worldwide have entered the AR/VR/MR market and unveiled their prototypes, including Vuzix, TCL, Xiaomi, Varjo, Pimax, Huynew Technology and EM3, while Apple will also allegedly announce its first MR headset next year. Dis...

This year, Nantong became the first city in Jiangsu, China, to follow the government’s “open competition” policy by announcing winners of 11 core technology projects. Currently, all of the projects have been released, including the “Fabrication of Micro LED chips for high resolution and full-color displays” project proposed by Luohuaxin Display Technology Development (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. On the morning of November 12, Luohuaxin signed a partnership with Nanjing University and the Nantong Science and Technology Bureau to kick off a 3-y...

SINGAPORE, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLIC) ("Kulicke & Soffa", "K&S" or the "Company") a global leader in the design and manufacture of semiconductor, LED and electronic assembly equipment, today announced a dramatic performance enhancement in the process throughput of its recently shipped mini and micro LED platform - LUMINEX™. With the latest software upgrade, the LUMINEX™ raises the advanced display technology and applications to a new lev...

Micro LED has become a high-profile advanced technology in the display industry, where related applications appear from time to time. For example, leading players, such as AUO, Innolux and PlayNitride, presented the results of Micro LED development by showcasing their innovations during the Touch Taiwan 2021 exhibition. These new products have altogether revealed display makers’ determination to overcome the existing technical problems of Micro LED production and ultimately realize mass production.   To achieve mass production with a lower cost and desir...

The idea of embedding sand-sized Micro LED into an AR contact lens that can produce a 200-inch virtual display might sound like some kind of futuristic concept from a sci-fi novel, but a startup is making it happen—literally. The startup, US-based Mojo Vision, was founded in 2015. Its CEO Drew Perkins had previously established various companies with other cofounders. In 2011, Perkins was diagnosed with cataract. After being treated with intraocular lens implants, Perkins still lost part of his vision. This has prompted Perkins to start thinking whether op...

As South Korean media reported, Samsung plans to reduce the pixel pitch of its Micro LED TVs of ≤100″ in size to achieve 4K resolution. However, the manufacturing conglomerate is faced with mass transfer difficulties, high costs and other challenges. Reportedly, Samsung is now developing a new technology to cut the pixel pitch of Micro LED TVs (≤100″ in size) to 0.5mm with chip size of 34×58 μm2. To meet the requirement of display resolution, the South Korean company produced a 110″ 4K Micro LED TV featuring a pixel pitc...

October 29th 2021, Saphlux Incorporation, a spin-off company from Yale University, announced the full-color NPQD® Micro-LED array with a sub-pixel size of 2 µm, an important breakthrough in AR display developments.        【2µm R-G-B NPQD® Micro-LEDs】   Due to the difficulties of mass-transferring small size (<10 µm) micro-LEDs, most AR displays are fabricated using monochrome wafer bonding. How to achieve a full-color conversion became a universal challenge. ...

On October 20, Visionox revealed its progress of Micro LED and AMOLED development to investors during a market research gathering. Expecting the Micro LED market to thrive in the future, Visionox has actively developed related technologies; meanwhile, Chengdu Vistar Optoelectronics, a company co-established by Visionox through equity investment, built a pilot scale Micro LED production line, thereby accomplishing the development of all related processes. Visionox also confirmed that its Micro LED strategies are likely to diversify the company’s pro...

Innovation Opens Up Opportunities for Micro LED Displays with Enhanced Picture Quality, Deeper Blacks and Customization Options SEOUL, Oct. 13, 2021 — LG Electronics’ Micro LED technology has been named the recipient of the Presidential Award at the International Light Convergence EXPO 2021, which kicked off today in South Korea. LG developed a new application method by which the RGB chips are transferred directly on the Thin Film Transistor (TFT) glass backplane rather than the traditional printed circuit board, taking...

  19 October, 2021 – A microdisplay breakthrough from University of Cambridge spin-out Porotech is set to accelerate the long-awaited commercialisation of augmented reality (AR) glasses. The micro-LED pioneer has created the world’s first microdisplay based on native red indium gallium nitride (InGaN) – with an active area of 0.55 inches diagonally and a resolution of 960×540.   Until now, it has only been possible to produce blue and green microdisplays using GaN-based light-emitting devices – with red emission...

Youngwoo DSP said on Wednesday that it has chosen to lead a national project to develop a new MicroLED package technology. The project given by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy is aiming to develop an ultra-small RGB layer based MicroLED manufacturing technology. The project will be given a 25.36 billion won budget and will last until December 31, 2024. The technology aims to transfer LED chips at the wafer level. This technology will allow for the production of a 360ppi resolution display panel. Youngwoo DSP said the ...

By reducing strain with an InGaN layer on a buried oxide, red-emitting InGaN-based microLEDs are tipped to yield higher efficiencies While phosphide-based structures lead the way for making most red LEDs, their performance plummets as dimensions decrease. When shrunk below 10 µm, which is the size these microLEDs need to be for displays for virtual and augmented reality, losses are exacerbated by long carrier diffusion lengths and a high density of surface defects at sidewalls. Pioneering an alternative is a French partnership between the University of Gren...

Despite being a major target of LED and display companies, Mini LED and Micro LED have yet to mature, thereby requiring funding supports. On September 29, San’an Optoelectronics announced a plan to raise 7.9 billion yuan ($1.22 billion) through private placement. The raised capital will be put into the industrialization projects of Mini/Micro LED displays at the company’s plant in Hubei, China and used to supplement circulating capital. San’an Increases Investments in Mini/Micro LED Projects to Target at High-end Markets Due to ove...

The advantages of Micro LED in contrast, gamut, resolution and color rendering have made a visual feast possible, allowing this “Black Technology” to garner consumer attention. Mostly being applied to commercial scenarios, Micro LED has been benefiting from increasingly mature technologies and reduced costs. Therefore, Micro LED is transitioning from business to consumer markets and has become the top choice of home theaters.   Micro LED Is Becoming a New Favorite of Home Theaters   According to research company TrendForce’s opt...

Mini/Micro LED has again become a target for corporations seeking diversification. On the evening of September 21, Pathfinder (TOREAD)—a Chinese outdoor product company—announced that it will, along with Jiaxing Yuanyang Equity Investment and Xiamen Xiyi Equity Investment, acquire an 80% stake in Beijing Xinneng Electronic Technology. The acquisition will cost 346 million yuan ($53.6 million), a price determined through negotiations between stakeholders based on the estimated value of Beijing Xinneng’s equity on May 31, 2021. Specifical...

On its investor interaction platform, BOE announced that the company, as VR/AR applications start to thrive, has entered mass production of 8/12-inch Micro OLEDs at its plant in Kunming of Yunnan Province. Currently, the production capacity of such OLED products is able to meet the overall market demand. Reportedly, BOE signed a partnership agreement with Yunnan OLiGHTEK Opto-Electronic Technology, Dianzhong Industrial Development Group and Kopin (Shenzhen) in 2017. The partnership totaled an investment of 1.15 billion yuan ($178 million) in a pr...

Konka has closely aligned its “Technology + Industry + High-Tech Zone” development strategy to the goal of shifting toward semiconductor, new consumer electronics, and high-tech zone markets through reforms, transformation and upgrading. Konka’s semiconductor business mainly comprises storage and optoelectronic products. Specifically, it specializes in the design and marketing of storage main control chips as well as packaging and testing of storage-related products. Regarding the optoelectronic sector, the company focuses on the R&D of Micro LED produ...

Following a subdued 2020 on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of Micro and Mini LED technologies has ramped up again this year. The upcoming Micro LEDforum 2021 will reveal the latest developments in the manufacturing of Micro LED displays as well as in the application of Mini and Micro LED technologies. Significant progress has been made across the different sections of the supply chain for Micro LED displays (e.g., chip manufacturing, mass transfer, mass inspection, driver design, and backplane manufacturing). The same can also be said for ...

To compete with South Korean companies holding a dominant position in the OLED display market, Apple is striving to establish its Mini LED industry chain. According to the latest report by Ming-Chi Kuo, a well-known analyst of Apple products, Apple’s mass production agenda for its Mini LED monitors comprises five stages. Stage 1: Changes in screen yield rates and shipping schedules will significantly affect the stock valuation of “primary suppliers”. Therefore, Apple’s suppliers will endeavor to improve product yield. Stage 2: T...

On August 19, the panel giant AUO convened a shareholders meeting. During the meeting, Chairman Paul SL Peng suggested that, regarding shareholders’ concerns over the stock price and analysts’ ratings of the panel industry, AUO could not affect its stock price, but the Taiwan-based panel manufacturer is striving to develop “biaxial transformation” (i.e., the Go Premium and Go vertical projects) strategies to ensure sustainable and stable profitability. Mr. Peng emphasized that because the panel industry is highly sensitive to changes in the econ...

ANSAN, South Korea – Seoul Viosys (KOSDAQ: 092190), the leading global compound semiconductor device provider and a subsidiary of Seoul Semiconductor, announced Seoul Viosys and the Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) team led by Nobel Prize-winning physics Professor Shuji Nakamura, of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) succeeded in developing blue and green micro LEDs with 1 μm diameter and addressed issues related to red micro LEDs of less than 70 μm, which could not ...

On August 6, FitTech—an LED equipment provider—announced at its board of directors meeting that the company will spend no more than NT$50 million (US$1.8 million) on investing in K-Jet Laser Tek. The investment aims to strengthen FitTech’s technologies of Micro LED mass transfer and removal as well as precision laser processing for PCB substrates, which also helps the two companies to develop technology strategies for the Micro LED market, thereby facilitating the “cooperation within the same industry and interdisciplinary alliance” ...

Skytech managed to overcome challenges in developing advanced semiconductor equipment and developed an atomic deposition layer (ALD) instrument, becoming the first Taiwanese equipment supplier that achieved “mass production” of ALD thin-film solutions. With its ALD equipment being verified and adopted by Epistar, Skytech has contributed to Epistar’s endeavor to promote commercialized applications of LED technologies. Founded in 2002, Skytech is a major supplier of critical semiconductor components in Taiwan. In 2017, the company started to invest in...

Aug. 4, 2021 ---- Annual revenue of Micro LED chips for TV is expected to reach US$3.4 billion in 2025 at a 250% CAGR across the 2021-2025 period, according to TrendForce’s latest report titled 2021 Mini / Micro LED Self-Emissive Display Trends and Analysis on Suppliers’ Strategies. This growth can mostly attributed to the early planning by display manufacturers to adopt Micro LED technology for large-sized displays; although the prohibitive cost of this technology is unlikely to be overcome in the short run, TrendForce still forecasts the afore...

As LCD technologies advance, you may often hear about words like LCD, LED, OLED, as well as popular display techniques using Micro LEDs, Mini LEDs, and Micro OLEDs. Have you ever tried to figure out these confusing terms but still don’t have any clue about them? Here’, we’ll explain the said trendy technologies—in simple words—and compare them to older technologies, so that you can quickly grasp their main ideas.   What’s the Difference between LCD, LED, and OLED?   LCD stands for a “liqui...

Micro LED has recently been a high-profile emerging technology in the display industry, where overcoming the existing technical challenges for mass production are the ultimate goal shared by businesses. In Touch Taiwan 2021, leading players such as AUO, Innolux, and PlayNitride flexed their muscles by showcasing various innovative Micro LED applications. In addition to bringing stunning visual experiences, the upstream–downstream partnerships seen in the display event suggests that Micro LED is no longer a “science-fiction” and has stepped closer to th...

IMAGE: RESEARCHERS FROM ETRI IS PERFORMING THE SIMULTANEOUS TRANSFER-BONDING PROCESS FOR MICRO LED CREDIT: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE(ETRI) The Korean research team developed the world's first next-generation display technology that can simplify the process and reduce the incidental expenses considerably. The new materials required for the new process were also developed for the first time in the world and is exp...

Otsuka Electronics Korea, having a history of display front-end measurement solutions, released a superior model of the HS-1000H series on the market. This latest one has been specially designed for Mini-LED and Micro-LED, which are very delicate as each micro-sized chip emits lights. As the existing model lines are trusted in the Mini-LED BLU optical inspection process, the new model also aroused many expectations.     To be responsible for quality inspection of advanced display technology, Otsuka Electronics Korea combined a 120-megapixel camera w...

Foreign media has reported that VueReal, a Canadian developer of Micro LED display technologies, recently revealed a novel 3–4 inch transparent Micro LED display with a transparency level of 85% and brightness of 3000 nits, yet the resolution has yet to be disclosed. Reports continued to indicate that according to the video released by VueReal, the transparent display is produced on glass, but the company can also manufacture the display on a flexible substrate. Image source: Screenshot of VueReal’s video VueReal described that its trial production l...