MicroLED Microdisplays

China-based microLED microdisplay developer Star Key Semiconductor has completed a financing round, raising "hundreds of millions of yuan", which likely means something between $30-100 million USD. The round was led by CDH Investments’ Hong Kong fund, and includes several undisclosed strategic and financial groups. 

In December 2025, Star Key inaugurated its microLED production line in Wuhan. This line is based on 8-inch GaN-on-Silicon microLED wafers, and will produce microLED microdisplays. The yearly capacity is around 12,000 wafers.

Even Realities has successfully raised $150 million in its pre-Series B round, led by Meituan and Tencent. This round places a value of $1 billion on the AR headset developer.

In November 2025, Even Realities launched its 2nd-gen AR glasses, the Even G2 Display Smart Glasses, based on microLED displays. The displays offer a 640x350 resolution, monochrome (green) color, 1200 nits brightness, and a 60Hz refresh rate. 

Smart contact lenses developer XPANCEO and microLED microdisplay maker JBD announced that they will co-develop a new micro-display designed specifically for direct integration into a smart contact lens.

This marks the second phase of the two companies' collaboration, building on the partnership they first announced in 2024. During the earlier proof-of-concept stage, the teams built a printed circuit board (PCB) with an integrated micro-display connected to the lens' processing unit, and developed an optical system capable of forming a precise image that a wearer can comfortably focus on despite it sitting extremely close to the surface of the eye. XPANCEO also demonstrated that such a system can be powered entirely by wireless means, removing the need for bulky internal components.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched a new collaborative initiative to develop microLED microdisplays for AR applications.

The microPRO project, as it is known, includes ALLOS Semiconductors, Fraunhofer IPMS, Jabil Optics, Mimetik, Maintastic, and SUSS MicroTec.

Taiwan-based MicroLED developer PlayNitride held its Q1 2026 earnings call, during which CEO Charles Li detailed the company's progress on its tandem (stacked) microLED chips and its full-color monolithic microdisplays for AI glasses, and reaffirmed PlayNitride's position as the only vertically-integrated microLED maker that has mastered epitaxy, chip manufacturing and mass transfer in production. The company also shared its latest financial results.

The main technology highlight was PlayNitride's next-generation tandem stacked microLED microdisplay. Li said the architecture, which has been in development for around two years, started shipping to customers for use in end products in 2026, and delivers a 50% to 80% improvement in light efficiency. Li said that PlayNitride is currently the only company that can stably mass-produce these increasingly complex microLED devices.

Ennostar and Saphlux have signed a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercialization of Saphlux's semi-polar microLED technologies, for both AR microdisplays and optical I/O solutions.

This collaboration will combine Saphlux's proprietary semi-polar GaN material platform with Ennostar's large-scale manufacturing capabilities.

Today we published a new edition of our MicroLED and OLED Microdisplays Market Report, with all the latest information. The new edition offers over 30 new updates, including new companies, new developments, and new devices. The AR industry is moving at a very fast pace, and both OLED and MicroLED technologies are leading the race to power AR headset displays.

Reading this report, you'll learn all about:

• The advantages of OLED and MicroLED microdisplays
• The microdisplays that are available on the market today
• Information on all companies involved in this market
• Future technologies and roadmaps

The report package also provides:

• A list of all OLED microdisplays on the market
• A list of all OLED and MicroLED microdisplays makers
• Microdisplays spreadsheet
• Over 25 datasheets, presentations
• Free updates for a year

This microdisplays market report provides a great introduction to MicroLED and OLED microdisplays, and covers everything you need to know about the current status of the market and industry. This is a great guide if you're considering to adopt OLED microdisplays in your product, if you're looking to learn more about next-generation micro-LEDs and if you want to understand this industry better.

Last month we reported that Innovision showcased its latest microLED displays at SID Display Week 2026, and unveiled its Chimo P13 dual-color microdisplay. 

The company now officially launched this new 0.13" 640x240 (4 um sub-pixel pitch) display. The Chimo P13 is a single microLED panel that combines green and red microLED chips, based on the company's WLVSP (Wafer-Level Vertical Stacked Pixel) design.

JBD today introduces its latest product, the Roadrunner II - a 2.5 micron pixel-pitch SVGA (800x600) 0.18 cc full color microLED projector. Based on the Roadrunner II, JBD also introduced a monocular full-color AR glasses development kit. 

The Roadrunner II product is based on 0.1" 480hz 10,160 PPI microdisplays. 

China-based BOE HC Semitek says that it is expanding its microLED business, from focusing on microLED epiwafer production to also developing microdisplays and optical I/O solutions.

The company says it has developed a monochrome microLED microdisplay, and is now working to improve the performance and the production yields. It is already shipping samples to potential customers, and is slated to begin low-volume commercial production soon.