Sheffield: Pixel-Flo, a University of Sheffield spin-out addressing a critical bottleneck in MicroLED display manufacturing with its proprietary Continuous-Flo™ Mass Transfer technology, has raised £5.25 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Northern Gritstone with additional investment from SCVC, the Parkwalk Northern Universities Venture Fund, and German investment firm, HTGF. Pixel-Flo is developing the cost reduction breakthrough critically needed for MicroLED display manufacturing, through its highly scalable, cost-efficient ap...

The massive sums being spent on data center infrastructure reflect a surge in demand for AI, both to train frontier models, and to perform the inference operations which drive the outputs of agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. AI data centers are made up of networks of processors and memory devices. Today, the majority of the links which connect computing systems are made of copper wires, in the form of backplanes and cables. But now data centers are faced with the challenge of massively increasing network bandwidth both within and between servers. The traditional technical...

On June 30, South Korea’s apparel maker WONPUNG announced that it had signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Silicon Valley-based Sundiode to collaborate on next-generation hybrid bonding technologies for Micro LED displays. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Sundiode has developed a 3D vertically stacked Micro LED architecture that stacks RGB sub-pixels vertically, eliminating the individual pixel transfer process required by conventional lateral layouts. The approach enables ultra-high-resolution full-color displays within an ex...

Huawei, Baidu and other industry partners have launched China’s first multi-source agreement (MSA) for near-packaged optics (NPO), aiming to establish an open and unified technical standard framework for next-generation high-speed optical interconnects and accelerate ecosystem collaboration. According to Huawei Computing’s official WeChat account, the Supernode and GW-level AIDC Technology Forum, along with the Open AI Infra Community’s semiannual meeting, was held in Beijing on July 9 under the guidance of the Global Computing Consort...

Sheffield-based firm Pixel-Flo, which is developing a scalable manufacturing process for microLED displays, has secured £5.25 million in seed funding from Northern Gritstone, SCVC, Parkwalk, and HTGF. Founded in 2023 by Rick Smith, Suneal Ghataora, and Simon Jones, Pixel-Flo develops manufacturing technology for microLED displays. The company is developing Continuous-Flo™, a manufacturing technology for assembling microLED displays. Instead of using traditional robotic "pick-and-place" methods to position each tiny LED ...

On July 3, BOE disclosed its latest investor relations update, outlining recent progress in optical interconnects, glass core substrates, perovskites, as well as its LCD and OLED businesses. Optical interconnect is one of BOE’s key strategic focus sector. The company said it plans to give full play to its long-standing expertise in display technologies, glass processing, and large-scale intelligent manufacturing to advance optical interconnect and glass-substrate co-packaged optics (CPO) technologies. To accelerate development, BOE has established dedic...

JBD, the brand name of Hue Inc. (the “Company”) and a global leader in MicroLED micro-display technology, today announced its collaboration with XPANCEO, a deep-tech company developing smart contact lenses as the ultimate interface for the AI era, to co-develop a specialized MicroLED microdisplay architecture designed for smart contact lens applications. This project marks the second phase of the companies’ collaboration and builds upon a series of successful milestones achieved during the earlier proof-of-concept stage. During that phase, the ...

Beyond bendable and foldable displays, the era of stretchable displays, whose screens can expand freely like rubber, is now emerging. KAIST researchers have developed a core technology that allows text, images, and other on-screen information to retain their original shape even when the screen is stretched by up to 15%. The achievement is expected to help solve the problem of image distortion and accelerate the commercialization of next-generation high-quality stretchable displays. KAIST (President Choongsik Bae) announced on the July 8 that a research team led by Prof...

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched a new collaborative initiative to develop microLED microdisplays for AR applications. The microPRO project, as it is known, includes ALLOS Semiconductors, Fraunhofer IPMS, Jabil Optics, Mimetik, Maintastic, and SUSS MicroTec. The project aims to utilize Industry 4.0 processes and prove the manufacturability of GaN-on-Siliicon based microLED displays in Germany. It will utilize the silicon-compatible manufacturing processes of GlobalFoundries and X-FAB. T...

Innovision Technology, a silicon-based Micro-LED solution provider, has officially unveiled the Chimo® P13–a monolithic polychromatic microdisplay that brings multi-color capability to a single chip. By enabling multi-color display on a single chip, the P13 effectively addresses the pain points of monochrome solutions—insufficient information hierarchy, poor alert visibility, and degraded readability in complex scenarios. The launch not only fills the industry gap for single-chip polychromatic silicon-based Micro-LED microdisplays but also marks a key milestone...

As AI data centers continue to scale, power consumption and bandwidth bottlenecks in chip-to-chip interconnects are becoming increasingly difficult to address. Against this backdrop, Micro LED-based co-packaged optics (CPO) is emerging as a promising alternative. By replacing traditional high-speed serial architectures with a “wide-and-slow” parallel optical approach, the technology transmits data through hundreds of low-speed optical channels operating simultaneously. This architecture eliminates the need for several power-hungry components—including DS...

JBD, the brand name of Hue Inc. (the “Company”) and a global leader in MicroLED micro-display technology, today announced the launch of Roadrunner II, the latest product in its Roadrunner series. Built on the Company’s validated 2.5 μm pixel-pitch technology and mass-production platform, Roadrunner II is an SVGA polychrome MicroLED projector. As the latest achievement in the Roadrunner series’ pursuit of ultimate visual performance and compact form factor, Roadrunner II delivers a comprehensive upgrade in resolution, display quali...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO), a global leader in compound semiconductor process equipment, today announced the first commercial acceptance and qualification of its LUMINA+ metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system by Ennostar Corporation, a leader in optoelectronic semiconductors. The order sets a new benchmark for high-volume arsenide and phosphide (As/P) production. “We see LUMINA+ as a game-changer for the fast-growing As/P market,” said Anil Vijayendran, Vice President of MOCVD Product Line Manageme...

Recently, West Lake Yanshan Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. officially commenced production at what it claims is the world’s first 8-inch GaN-on-Silicon Micro LED IDM mass production line, located at its factory in Deqing, Zhejiang Province. The newly launched line adopts a full-chain IDM model, covering the entire manufacturing process from epitaxial material growth and chip fabrication to advanced packaging. The facility enables integrated closed-loop production from silicon-based GaN epitaxy to finished Micro LED devices. Unlike the conventi...

As per South Korean media outlet ETNews on May 27, Samsung Display (SDC) is building a pilot production facility for Micro LED smartwatch displays on a 5.5-generation Quarter Cut production line at its A2 campus in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do. An industry insider said the Micro LED process equipment includes transfer, bonding, inspection, and repair systems. Samsung Display had been evaluating equipment suppliers from late last year through early 2026, with the relevant tools expected to be installed within the year. After completing the pilot facility this yea...

On May 26, SmartSens Technology and UNISOC announced a strategic partnership to jointly advance high-speed Micro LED optical interconnect technology. The collaboration will focus on optical interconnect chip design and system-level solutions, targeting short-reach, high-speed connectivity for AI computing clusters with domestically developed solutions featuring high bandwidth, low power consumption, and high integration. Under the partnership, both sides will develop a next-generation Micro LED CPO optical interconnect solution. Built on SmartSens’ op...

U.S.-based AI infrastructure company Fabric. AI recently announced plans to demonstrate its flagship Micro LED optical interconnect platform by the end of 2026. Fabric.AI is developing a fabless semiconductor technology stack aimed at next-generation AI data centers. Its core product, Neural I/o™, is a Micro LED-based optical interconnect platform jointly developed with microdisplay company Kopin. The platform is designed to address growing bottlenecks in AI infrastructure, particularly data transfer efficiency among GPUs, accelerators, memory system...

Picture: Ms. Jennifer Lin, AUO Corporation Vice President of Innovation Development, and Mr. Ness Benamran, Aledia Chief Financial Officer, announced the partnership in the presence of the Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan, Mr. Kung Ming-Hsin AUO Corporation (“AUO”) and Aledia today announced a strategic partnership to develop a new generation of microLED display technology combining high brightness, low power consumption, and high resolution. The collaboration will integrate Aledia’s high-voltage microLED (µLED...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Google today unveiled new intelligent eyewear1 at Google I/O 2026 by giving a first look at two premium styles created with eyewear partners Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Designed to work as a companion device to a mobile phone, the new eyewear enables users to access help through voice interaction and connect seamlessly to their phones, all through a familiar form factor. Co-created with the eyewear partners, the intelligent eyewear combines breakthrough AI capabilities with comfort and style, merging Samsung’s leadership in h...

University of Michigan in the USA has claimed the highest external quantum efficiency (EQE) and smallest linewidth so far for red-emitting indium gallium nitride (InGaN) micro-LEDs, using photonic crystal (PhC) structures [Yuanpeng Wu et al, Light: Science & Applications v15, p133, 2026] Further, the emission wavelength was stable for a wide range of injection currents. The 5nm full-width at half maximum (FWHM) was about one order of magnitude narrower than previously reported values. The researchers see narrow linewidths as “paramount for achievin...

AI is pushing the boundaries of computing infrastructure to new levels as data centers scale to millions of GPUs. High-speed interconnects play a critical role in enabling this expansion with high-throughput and reliable data movement between compute, memory, and storage systems. New photonic connectivity technologies are emerging to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of GPU-dense architectures. Credo is innovating across its product portfolio that spans diverse physical mediums, distances, and protocols to meet customer needs. Credo began investing in microLED technolo...