MicroLED display developers - Page 2

Lumens

Lumens logo

Korea-based Lumens is a specialized LED company that develops next-generation LED technologies, including LED packages, high efficiency lighting, display related products and more.

Lumens is developing high-definition automotive head-up Micro-LED displays and had plans to release its first such display by the end of 2017. Lumens is collaborating with the Korean Institute of Machinery & Material to develop Micro-LED production technologies. In early 2019 Lumens demonstrated a FHD monochrome micro-LED microdisplay.

Lumens is also developing and producing tiled microLED display modules used to make large microLED display solutions.

Microluce

Microluce logo (2020)Taiwan-based Microluce was established in 2017 to commercialize microLED display technology developed originally at National Central University.

Microluce's technology enables the production of low-temperature (500-700 degrees Celsius) GaN thin film epitaxial wafers using a sputtering process, on 8 to 12 inch wafers.

 

Microluce is working with partners (including Konka) to develop microLED technologies.

Oculus

Oculus logoOculus, owned by Meta, develops and markets virtual reality headsets and solutions. Oculus currently uses OLED displays (produced by Samsung Display) in its VR headsets.

In October 2016 Oculus acquired InfiniLED, a Micro-LED display developer based in Ireland.

PlayNitride

PlayNitride logoTaiwan-based PlayNitride was established in June 2014 to research and develop Nitride related materials and applications. The fabless company is now focusing on GaN based MicroLEDs.

PlayNitride developed its own microLED epiwafer production process (using Aixtron's G5+ MOCVD systems), its own stamp-based transfer technology and also its own repair technology (SMAR.Tech).

 

PlayNitride started to sample micro-LED at the end of 2017, and in May 2018 PlayNitride demonstrated its first Micro-LED prototypes. PlayNitride has a pilot production facility at Hsinchu Science Park. In 2020 PlayNitride started constructing a second production line that will start mass producing in H2 2021.

Plessey

UK-based Plessey is a design and manufacturing company focused on GaN-on-Silicon micro-LEDs.

Plessey developed unique monolithic micro-LED process technology that can be used to produce Micro-LED displays without a transfer process.

 

Over the years, the company demonstrated several prototypes and has also launched two product lines (for segmented microdisplays and full dot-matrix ones). In 2020, Plessey announced a partnership with Facebook under which Plessey will dedicate all of its manufacturing operations to support Facebook with its own product development. While not exactly an acquisition of Plessey's entire microLED operations, this was pretty close.

In 2025, Haylo Labs acquired Plessey for $100 million.

Here's a brochure that details Plessey's microLED platform, with a focus on optical I/O solutions.

Q-Pixel

US-based Q-Pixel is an early stage company that develops microLED microdisplays.

The company's proprietary Polychromatic microLED technology introduces full-color tunability across a single 4-micron pixel.

Qiushui Semiconductors

Qiushui Semiconductors, also known as QSSemi Semiconductor, was established in 2022 in China, to commercialize a zero-etching method of producing microLEDs, and a hybrid bonding process, with an aim to become a microLED microdisplay producer. The main innovation is the use of an electrically-insulating wall between pixels on the epiwafer, to eliminate the need of etching to singulate individual microLEDs.

In 2026, the company established an 8-inch microLED wafer mass production center in Ningbo, China. Once complete, this production base will have an annual production capacity of over 6 million microLED display 'modules'. 

 

In 2026, Qiushui Semiconductor raised almost $30 million USD in its Series-A funding round, led by Zhaohui Capital.

 

QubeDot

Germany-based QubeDot develops and manufactures microLEDs and microLED-displays based on the InGaN material system for particularly high optical performance and switching speeds. Based on the knowledge of several years of research, the company offers customized microLED solutions.

The company's SMILE (Structured Micro Illumination Light Engine) platform is a combination of its microLED-array product range with different pixel numbers, sizes, wavelengths, and intensities, controlled directly from a computer via USB.

Raxium

Raxium logoUS-based Raxium, established in 2017, develops microLED microdisplay technologies.

Raxium did not reveal much about its technology, beyond saying that it developed a monolithic approach to develop microLED microdisplays, with a pixel pitch of 3.5 um.

 

In early 2022 Google acquired Raxium.

Rayleigh Vision

Rayleigh Vision was established in 2023 in Hong Kong, to develop stacked microLED display technologies. The company's technology enables the stacking of LEDs on top of each other, to create high-density displays. 

Rayleigh Vision says that a special advantage of its technology is that LED repairs can be easy as it enables the stacking of another LED to replace a defective one on top of the existing stack. The company is focused on microLED microdisplays, and has a roadmap to achieve 10,000 PPI for full-color microdisplays.

 

In December 2023, we posted an interview with Rayleigh's CEO.

Raysolve Optoelectronics

Hong Kong based Raysolve Optoelectronics, established in 2019, is a fabless microLED microdisplay producer. The company develops microdisplays based on its CoANODE architecture and innovative bonding technology.

Raysolve says that its innovative large size GaN-on-Silicon wafer-level integration technology enables the production of high quality microLED chips with high yields.

 

In May 2026, Raysolve demonstrated its latest monochrome and full-color displays, including a 850,000 nits full-color QDCC display. Later this year the company raised its pre-A4 funding round, and demonstrated its first microLED optical I/O solution.

Samsung - MicroLED status

Samsung is a multi-national company, based in South Korea, that produces and markets a wide range of consumer electronic products and components such as displays and memory chips.

Samsung has been developing microLED displays for many years, and has several active microLED projects. Samsung Display is developing tiled microLED panels, wearable microLED displays, and more. Samsung Electronics produces and markets large-area microLED TVs, and also develops microLED microdisplays via its Samsung Semiconductors subsidiary.

 

For the TV market, Samsung is marketing commercial tiled microLED TVs, under the The Wall brand, and consumer-level (high premium) TVs. As microLED technology is the strategic focus for Samsung's premium TV offerings, the company continues to broaden its selection of available microLED televisions.

SiliconCore

US-based SiliconCore, established in 1997, develops driver chips for LED displays, and large scale indoor displays. SiliconCore says that its Common Cathode technology enables the highest performance, coolest operating and brightest direct-emission LED displays.

In recent years SiliconCore develops displays based on miniLEDs and microLEDs.

 

Sitan Technology

Sitan Technology logoSitan Technology, established in Shenzhen, China in 2018, develops and produces microLED chips and display modules, including microLED microdisplays. In addition, Sitan offers microLED drivers and inspection equipment. The company has a microLED pilot production line in Longhua, Shenzhen.

Sitan Technology has completed several rounds of financing, with investors including Xiaomi, Sequoia China, and others. 

 

In May 2023, the company demonstrated its latest microLED microdisplays and transparent displays. In May 2026, the company announced a strategic agreement with Changelight targeting automotive microLED displays.

Sony

Sony logoSony, based in Japan, is a multinational consumer electronics company, a pioneer in the display industry for many years.

In 2012 Sony demonstrated the world's first micro-LED TV (55", Full-HD) which they termed Crystal-LED. Sony's 55" Crystal-LED never reached the market, but in 2016 the company unveiled its large-area outdoor micro-LED displays which Sony calls Canvas Display, or CLEDIS.

 

Over the years Sony released several generations of CLEDIS displays, and announced several large-area installations - see below for the latest news. In 2019 Sony started offering MicroLED Canvas displays for ultra-premium residential installations. In 2021, the company expanded its microLED display range.

Star Key Semiconductor Wuhan

The Star Key Semiconductor Wuhan company was established in 2022 in Wuhan, China, with an aim to become a global microLED display developer, focusing on AR microdisplays.

In 2025, the company inaugurated its first 8-inch GaN-on-Silicon microLED pilot production line, with an estimated yearly capacity of around 12,000 8-inch epiwafers. The company is currently looking to develop and mass produce monochrome microLED microdisplays. Its epiwafer supplier is Suzhou-based InnoScience.

 

In July 2026, the company completed a financing round, raising "hundreds of millions of Yuan".