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ITRI

Taiwan's ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) is a national research organization, with a mission of conducting technological research, promoting industrial development, creating economic value and improving social welfare for Taiwan. ITRI, founded in 1973, is the largest applied technology R&D institution in Taiwan.

ITRI has been developing microLED technologies for many years, including microdisplays, a microLED sensor platform, tiled microLED displays, and more. ITRI is currently focused on microLED microdisplays, microLED-based optical I/O technologies, and QD for color conversion.

Jasper Display

Jasper Display Corp (JDC) was a fabless semiconductor company, established in 2010 in Taiwan. The company's main business lines were its microdisplay Spatial Light Modulators (SLM) and color-sequential LCoS microdisplays.

In January 2018 JDC unveiled a new micro-LED silicon backplane for AR and VR microdisplays.

In 2022, Jasper Display's IP and R&D team were sold to Raxium (later acquired by Google).

KETI

The Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) is a government-funded R&D institute that specializes in electronics and IT. KETI, founded in 1991, serves as a technology partner to Korean small and medium-sized enterprises, bridging the gap between fundamental research and commercialization across fields such as semiconductors, displays, sensors, energy, and ICT convergence.

KETI conducts R&D, standardization, and technical support to help Korean industry adapt quickly to emerging global technology trends.

In the microLED space, KETI researchers work on core enabling technologies including microLED chip fabrication, mass-transfer processes, and novel device architectures.

LEKIN Semiconductor

Suzhou-based LEKIN Semiconductor was established in 2021, following the acquisition of LG Innotek's optoelectronic compound semiconductor IP. The company's main products include high efficiency ultraviolet LEDs, infrared VCSELs, automotive LEDs, and other optoelectronic devices.

In 2025, the company announced plans to build a $735 million automotive-grade modules and displays production line. In the second phase, this fab will be used to develop and produce microLED displays.

Macroblock

Taiwan-based Macroblock offers drivers ICs for LED displays and lighting devices and the automotive market.

Macroblock devels a driver for MicroLED displays. Macroblock is collaborating with Taiwan's ITRI on MicroLED technologies and with China's Konka for its MicroLED TVs.

MediaTek

MediaTek, establisehd in 1997 in Taiwan, is one of the world's largest fabless chip designers. The company develops systems-on-chip (SoC) solutions for a wide range of applications, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, connectivity, IoT devices and automotive systems, with its chipsets powering over 2 billion devices annually.

For the display industry, MediaTek supplies application processors and dedicated display and TV SoC platforms. Its portfolio supports microLED, OLED and LCD-based products across mobile, TV and emerging form factor. In early 2026, the company announced it is developing microLED-based optical communication solutions.

Mitsui Kinzoku

Japan-based Mitsui Kinzoku Co., Ltd. produces functional engineered materials and electronic materials, nonferrous metal smelting, and more.

For the MicroLED Industry, Mitsui Kinzoku developed a sulfide phosphor for color conversion. The material is highly durable and does not contain any hazardous material. The company is now sampling the material for microLED developers.

Mojo Vision

Mojo Vision is a U.S.-based high-performance microLED platform company developing optical interconnect and display technologies for next-generation AI applications.

Originally founded in 2015 to build an augmented-reality contact lens, Mojo developed the world’s smallest and densest dynamic display as part of that effort before pivoting in 2023 to focus on commercializing its core micro-LED technology.

Today, Mojo is developing a flexible “wafers-in, wafers-out” microLED platform. Built over a decade by a team of skilled engineers, the company has developed a powerful technology toolkit – including advanced 300mm silicon architecture, tiny GaN-on-silicon microLED emitters, efficient photodetectors, proprietary quantum dots, custom micro-lens arrays, multicore fiber bundles, and proprietary software – that can be configured in custom ways depending on the application.

Monocrystal

Monocrystal, a part of the industrial group of companies Energomera, is a global leading supplier of sapphire products for LED and metallization pastes for solar industries.

For the Micro-LED industry, Monocrystal offers sapphire wafers with ultra-clean surface, required for GaN epitaxy growth. Monocrystal offers 6, 8 and 10-inch wafers.

NanoPattern Technologies

NanoPattern Technologies was founded in 2019 to commercialize quantum dots technologies developed at the University of Chicago.

The company develops and produces a patented QD ink that enables the patterning of high resolution quantum dot downconverter layers. In March 2024, the company raised a $1.5 million seed round.

Nexilumen

Nexilumen was established in China in 2026, with an aim to commercialize microLED integration technology on diamond substrates, developed at Fudan University.

Nexilumen targets the optical I/O market. In 2026, the company raised 15 million RMB ($2.2 million USD) in its seed round.

Ostendo Technologies

Established in 2005 in California, US, Ostendo Technology develops Micro-LED-based display technologies and products. The company's display is called Quantum Photonics Imager (QPI).

Ostendo is still in stealth mode, but the company's patents describe the QPI is a 3D-IC semiconductor device comprising a high density array of digitally addressable micro-LED pixels. This seems to be a tandem-device in which the red, green and blue subpixels are placed one on top of the other.

Palomino Laboratories

Palomino Laboratories, established in 2025, develops optical transceivers based on microLEDs, for AI data center communication for high-speed, energy-efficient data transfer.

Palomino has the right to use and license the University of California, Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) advanced microLED technology.

Following a merger with Unite Acquisition, the company is public (OTCQB: PALX). In April 2026, the company raised $15 million.

Pixel-Flo

UK-based Pixel-Flo was established in 2025 as a spin-out from the University of Sheffield, to commercialize its next-generation continuous fluidic microLED transfer process.

Pixel-Flo says that its process offers extremely high continuous throughput and scalability to populate the largest panel sizes.

Plansee

Plansee, established in 1921 in Austria, specializes in the manufacturing of components from molybdenum and tungsten. The company's refractory metals and composites are used in the semiconductor industry, consumer electronics, medical technology, and high-temperature furnaces.

Plansee is a major supplier for molybdenum and tungsten-based sputtering targets for depositing thin films in TFT-LCD, OLED and microLED backplanes.

QNA Technology

Poland-based QNA Technology, established in 2016, develops and produces quantum dots for the display industry. The company optimizes its QDs for two applications: electroluminescence display devices (QD-EL) and for microLED displays devices based on UV microLEDs.

QNA developed QD surface engineering to enable the delivery of its materials in various solvents, such as polar, non-polar, monomers, powders, and more. The company is also developing QD inks suitable for both ink-jet printing and photoresist, and for UV-curable inks.

The company is also developing ZnMgO nanomaterials intended for the fabrication of electron transport layers (ETLs), compatible with quantum dots, with the primary application in QDEL display manufacturing.

In 2023, the company raised $4 million USD, and has gone public at Poland's NewConnect stock exchange. In early 2025, the company raised a further $3.1 million Euros.

Qromis

US-based Qromis developed a novel substrate technology (called Qromis Substrate Technology, or QST) that can enable the growth of unique, high performance and low cost GaN circuit structures. QST supports large substrate sizes (6-inch, 8-inch, 12-inch and even larger) and devices from discrete to monolithic and eventually ICs with specifically designed engineered layers.

In 2020, Shin-Etsu licensed Qromis' GaN substrate technology, for the use in microLED deposition.

Rain Technology

Rain Technology, established in 2017 in the US, develops and markets display technology for a wide range of solutions.

For the production of MicorLED displays, Rain offers a unique backplane technology, LED transfer technologies, and microdisplay solutions. In 2019, the company acquired Optovate.

Saphlux

US-based Saphlux was established in 2014 at Yale University to develop a semi-polar gallium-nitride on sapphire material that enables next generation high power and high performance LEDs and laser diodes.

Saphlux is developing technologies aimed towards micro-LED displays. The company's NPDQ color conversion technology utilizes quantum dots etched into the GaN LED itself.

In 2022 it was reported that Leyard is ready to mass produce microLED panels that use Saphlux's NPQD technology. Leyard owns 12% of Saphlux. In 2023 Saphlux demonstrated a 0.39" full-color NPDQ microLED microdisplay.

In 2026, Saphlux raised $43.5 million in its Series C funding round.