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Royole to build a $2.4 billion flexible OLED fab in Qingdao

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although we haven’t been able to pin down an original source, we have seen various reports that Royole has announced a $2.4 billion flexible OLED fab to be built in Qingdao, …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| Investment| OLED Fabs

Merck Announces € 20 Million OLED Manufacturing Expansion in Korea and China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Merck KGAA said that it was planning to boost its capacity for OLED material manufacture with new capacity in Korea at Pyeongtaek and Shanghai. The value of the investment is €20 …

Tags:China| Investment| Korea| Merck| OLED Materials

Aledia orders Veeco’s 300mm MOCVD systems for its upcoming MicroLED production fab

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Veeco announced that Aledia (who we wrote about a couple of weeks ago Aledia Accelerating microLED Execution) has bought a Propel 300mm HVM MOCVD system for use in its plant. Veeco …

Tags:Investment| MicroLED| Production Equipment

Wisconsin Denies Foxconn Tax Subsidies

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Verge published a detailed report on the failure of the planned Foxconn LCD fab in Wisconsin. The company’s application for subsidies has been rejected as the number of employees was …

Tags:Investment| LCD Fabs| USA

Aledia Accelerating microLED Execution

by Bob Raikes

In 2017, we published a couple of articles about French start-up Aledia, after a talk at the SID Investor Conference and following a trip to the LETI Research Centre in Grenoble. Recently, the company …

Tags:France| Investment| Microdisplays| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

LCD vs OLED – A Capital Topic!

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, I read an editorial from DSCC’s Bob O’Brien that talked about OLED vs LCD. He pointed out that when his firm started in 2016, it focused on OLED research …

Tags:Investment| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| OLED Fabs

Aledia, French Developer of Next-Generation microLED Displays For High-Volume Consumer Markets, Announces €80M Closing of Planned €120M Investment Round

by Artem Alekseenko

Aledia, a French startup that is pioneering a disruptive technology for microLED displays, has closed an €80M first tranche of its €120M D-round financing. The company will use the proceeds to complete its product …

Tags:Investment| MicroLED

Sharp to Split-off Display Business?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec, quoting SankeiBiz in Japan, reports that Sharp plans to split off its display business into a new subsidiary Sharp Display Technology (SDTC) based in Kameyama, Japan. The factory in …

Tags:Investment| Reorganisation & Restructuring| sharp

LG Display to invest in OLED line for Apple in Q1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that LG is going to make extra investments at its Paju facility to build a new line, E6-3, to make G6 substrates (1500 x 1850mm) to support supply …

Sharp PC unit Dynabook’s Tokyo listing pushed to late 2021: CEO

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Japanese PC maker, Dynabook – owned by Sharp and including the Toshiba PC business bought by Sharp in 2018 – had hoped to have an IPO this year, but has deferred …

Tags:Investment| Japan| Notebooks| sharp| toshiba

Aledia Gets Investment for Manufacturing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Aledia, a start-up out of the high tech R&D LETI organisation in Grenoble, France, has raised €140 million to build production facilities in the region. What We Think We have been …

Tags:Investment| Manufacturing| MicroLED

iBeam Gets Help to Be Disruptive from a Tech Giant

by Bob Raikes

It’s sometimes hard as an independent analyst to work out whether a claimed technical breakthrough is really what it seems. I don’t have a team of engineers and scientists on the payroll to evaluate …