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Epistar and Leyard Opto-Electronics to build a $142 million micro-LED and mini-LED production fab in China

Taiwan-based LED producer Epistar is in talks with China-based LED display maker Leyard Opto-Electronic to setup a Mini-LED and Micro-LED production site in Wuxi, China. The two companies (actually Leyard and Epistar's subsidiary Yenrich Technology) will setup a joint-venture with a budget of $142 million.

Leyard says that the plan is to form the joint venture six months after getting the final approval for the plan. This will enable the production to begin in the new fab in 2023. It is still not clear whether the new fab will produce mini and micro LED chips - or actual displays.

Read the full story Posted: Dec 28, 2019

Lextar to demonstrate a 5.1" 30,000 nits transparent microLED display prototype

LED developer Lextar Electronics announced that next week at Touch Taiwan 2019 it will showcase a 5.1" transparent active-matrix microLED display that achieves an extremely high brightness - 30,000 nits.

This is Lextar's first public demonstration of a micro-LED display. Last year at Touch Taiwan 2018 the company unveiled its first micro-LED chips. The company recognizes that its micro-LED display technology will not be ready for commercialization before 2020 at the earliest.

Read the full story Posted: Aug 24, 2019

AU Optronics to demonstrate a 12.1" LTPS Micro-LED display prototype

AU Optronics announced that it will demonstrate a 12.1" LTPS micro-LED display prototype next week that features a resolution o 1920x720 (169 PPI). It seems that this is the same display shown at IFA 2018.

AUO 12.1'' LTPS micro-LED prototype (August 2019)

The 2018 display used blue LEDs with color conversion, which achieved "marvelous color performance", according to AUO.

Read the full story Posted: Aug 23, 2019

Luumii starts to mass produce its mini-LED and micro-LED laptop keyboard lighting and logo lighting solutions

Luumii, a joint-venture between Micro-LED developer Rohinni and Koja, announced that it has started to mass produce its micro-LED and mini-LED based notebook computer keyboard backlights and logo lighting solutions.

Rohinni - Luumii flexible keyboard LEDs photo

Luumii says that its solutions are more compact and offer a higher power efficiency compared to current solutions, and may also enhance product features and user experience as it offers colored lighting and animations. Luumii's current capacity is 34,000 units per month, and by the end of 2019 it will increase the capacity to 100,000 monthly units.

Read the full story Posted: Aug 21, 2019

Rohinni announces initial orders for its micro-LED placement solution

US-based Rohinni announced that it has received initial orders for its Pixalux mini-LED and micro-LED placement solution. The company expects to ship more systems in the current quarter, and anticipates higher-volume market adoption in 2020.

Rohinni micro-LED array photo

Rohinni says that its system combines higher throughput and accuracy for small-die applications to provide a compelling and highly-competitive solution.

Read the full story Posted: Aug 02, 2019

CSoT demonstrates a 3.3" transparent Micro-LED prototype produced in collaboration with PlayNitride

TCL subsidiary China Star (CSoT) demonstrated a 3.3" 232x116 transparent Micro-LED prototype display. The display is built on an Oxide-TFT (IGZO) backplane - CSoT says that this is the first such display ever demonstrated. The transparency is around 45%.

CSoT says that it developed the display in collaboration with PlayNitride that provided the transfer technology for CSoT.

Read the full story Posted: Jul 14, 2019

Tianma developed a 7.56" highly transparent Micro-LED display

China-based Tianma announced that it has developed a transparent 7.56" 720x480 (114 PPI) Micro-LED display. The new display, which will be demonstrated at SID next week features a transparency of over 60%.

Tianma says that the new display has an ultra-thin border of less than 0.8 mm (left and right). Tianma says that such durable and long-lasting transparent displays could be very suitable for automotive applications (such as HUDs or in-window displays).

Read the full story Posted: May 10, 2019

Sanan to setup a $1.8 billion Mini-LED and Micro-LED production center in Hubei, China

In September 2018 it was reported that China-based Sanan Optoelectronics started to build its first micro-LED epitaxial wafer and chip production lineand in early 2019 it was reported that Sanan plans to start sampling Micro LED chips as early as January 2019.

Now Sanan announced that it has signed a contract with the Gedian Economic and Technological Development Zone in China's Hubei Province to setup a 12 billion Yuan ($1.78 billion USD) Mini-LED and Micro-LED production site.

Read the full story Posted: Apr 29, 2019