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Samsung Plans to Show 150″ LED TV

by Bob Raikes

ZDNet of Korea has forecast that Samsung will show a new 150″ TV based on microLED technology at the forthcoming CES 20187 show and the resolution is around UltraHD. Analyst Comment It wouldn’t be …

Tags:CES 2018| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 45

AU Optronics Will Adopt Mini LED Backlighting in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

AU Optronics chairman and CEO Paul Peng has announced that the firm will adopt miniLED backlighting in 2018. (Epistar Chairman Predicts Mini LED will Drive Growth in 2018) Peng reiterated that the adoption of …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| MicroLED| Vol 24 - Issue 45

Solar-Tectic Has New Backplane Technology

by Milos Pavlovic

Solar-Tectic of Briarcliff Manor, New York, said that it has a new backplane technology, which it calls LT1CS (for Low Temperature single Crystal Silicon). In the material, the silicon crystals are highly oriented c-axis …

Epistar Chairman Predicts Mini LED will Drive Growth in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Epistar chairman Lee Biing-jye predicts that mini LED will be a major growth driver in 2018, according to a report by Digitimes. The article also states that chipmaker Epistar will soon begin production of …

News Appetizers for Thanksgiving

by Chris Chinnock

Yes, it is Thanksgiving tomorrow in the U.S. In thinking about a topic to cover for the day before Thanksgiving, I reviewed some recent news for ideas. Rather than expand on one of the …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| MicroLED| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Apple Reported to Have Downsized its Micro-LED R&D Team in Taiwan

by Norbert Hildebrand

Since Apple bought Lux Vue, the interest in micro LED display technology has increased sharply. Recently several rumors around Apple’s involvement with the micro LED technology have been giving a good reason to reflect …

An Update on LED Displays

by Bob Raikes

LED Inside has published article that talks about the differences between fine pitch LED, miniLED and microLED. The blog sees products with pitch of 1.2mm (e.g. Sony Cledis) or 2.5mm like Samsung’s Cinema LED …

EOSRL Micro-LED Line to Commence Operations by Q3 2018

by Andrew Fenn

The new Micro-LED project from Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL, part of ITRI), in collaboration with PlayNitride, Macroblock and Unimicron Technology, will develop small-scale displays for VR applications, as well as large-sized …

PlayNitride in Taiwan MicroLED Project

by Bob Raikes

Taiwanese sources have reported that PlayNitride of Taiwan is part of the microLED project that we reported on a couple of months ago. (Taiwan’s EOSRL Planning 2018 MicroLED Production) PlayNitride microLED Display, Credit Business …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Google Patents MicroLED Glasses Concept

by Bob Raikes

Google applied for a patent relating to the use of MicroLEDs in AR glasses in March 2016, and that has now been awarded according to the Patently Mobile blog. The concept puts the image …

Tags:Eyewear| Google| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Veeco and Allos Can Make 200mm GaN-on-Si Wafers for microLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Equipment maker, Veeco, along with Allos Semiconductor, has completed a micro-LED project to make blue and green microLEDs on GaN-on-Si wafers. Veeco has used technology from Allos in its Propel single wafer MOCVD system. …

Lumens Planning HD HUD Using Micro-LED Soon

by Bob Raikes

Lumens of Korea, described as a long term partner of Samsung, has said in an interview with the Korea Herald that it plans to develop HUDs for automotive applications based on MicroLED technology. Jung …