Belgium-based QD developer and MicroLED Association member QustomDot announced that it has raised 5 million Euros at its pre-Series A financing round.

Several investors participated in this recent round, including Noshaq, EIC Fund, Qbic Fund, Venture Capital, PMV and VIGO Venture. 

The MicroLED Industry Association’s 2025 annual meeting dinner will be held during Touch Taiwan 2025, in Taipei (which will take place at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center). This dinner will be an excellent opportunity for MicroLED Association members to connect in a friendly environment.

The dinner meeting will take place at the 1010 Hunan Cuisine restaurant, located only 5 minutes walk from the Exhibition Center. We hope to meet all our members and enjoy a unique dinner experience and networking!

Trendforce analysts say that microLED chip revenues is set to grow from around $27.5 million in 2023 to $489.5 million by 2028, driven by adoption of microLED displays in automotive and AR applications.

The industry still suffers from technology challenges and high production costs, which means that demand for microLED displays is weak. Trendforce actually reduced its previous estimation (just a few months ago, it estimated that sales will reach almost $580 million in 2028).

Researchers from the Chemnitz University of Technology have combined several new technologies to enable high density high-brightness microLED displays. The researchers demonstrated a 3400 PPI 1080x780 monochrome green display with a brightness of over 10,000,000 nits.

To achieve this high performance display, the researchers used wafer-scale high-quality epitaxial growth, sidewall passivation, efficient photon extraction, and elegant bonding technologies.

INMO Technology officially launched its latest AR glasses, the INMO GO 2, that feature microLED microdisplays. The glasses use JBD's Hummingbird Mini II Optical Engine, with the company's 0.13" green monochrome VGA microdisplays. 

The INMO GO2 offers real-time simultaneous translation technology, supporting 40 languages and 90 accents.  The company says the battery life is 150 minutes of use on a full charge. The GO 2 are powered by a quad-core CPU and run on Android 9 with 2GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. 

Researchers at the Nitride Technology Centre (NTC) at TU Braunschweig, in collaboration with Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and ams OSRAM, are looking into the use of microLED devices in neuromorphic computing. The researchers say that the adoption of microLED devices may lead to highly efficiency AI computers.

The basic idea is to mimic the biological neural network by using photonic components. The researchers are combining GaN components with conventional silicon microelectronics to create highly integrated arrays with hundreds of thousands of micro-LED. Using microLEDs can enable a power reduction by a factor of 10,000 compared to current technologies. 

UK-based OTFT developer Smartkem announced that it has partnered with AUO to jointly develop rollable transparent microLED displays, based on Smartkem's OTFT backplane technology. The project will be based on a novel OTFT production process developed at ITRI.

Smartkem believes its technology will not only enable high-end rollable transparent microLED displays, but it will also enable drastic cost reduction that will bring costs down to mass market prices. Smartkem's low-temperature processing enables the use of low-cost and flexible plastic substrates rather than glass, which the company says will be a decisive factor in bringing production costs down.

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Rokid announced a new AR headset, called Rokid Glasses, that are based on JBD's 0.13" VGA microLED microdisplays.

The Rokid Glasses offers a Snapdragon Qualcomm AR1 chipset, 12MP camera, 2GB of RAM, a battery life of 4 hours, and a charging carry case that can hold up to 10 full charges. The Rokid Glasses weigh 49 grams and offers several frame colors. Rokid will start selling the new AR headset by June 2025, with a price tag of 2,499 Yuan (around $350).

X Display Company (XDC) has announced that it has developed a new micro-IC driven microLED display in collaboration with Lumileds. XDC says that its micro-IC architecture is efficient and also cost-effective to produce, and is already ready for mass production.

The two companies developed a 140 PPI display that uses Lumiled's 13x20 micron LEDs, and XDC's own microIC backplane technology. The display offers high brightness (2360 nits peak) and an excellent image quality.