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Chinese display maker HKC announced that its new direct-view LED fab in Mianyang is starting operation. The company says that this is a significant milestone for the company and its long-term strategy in the large-area display industry sector.

It is our understanding that currently the new fab will produce LED direct view displays that utilize miniLEDs, but in the future it will also produce microLEDs. In fact, HKC announced that "in the face of the rapid growth of the global MicroLED technology market" it will expand the microLED capacity in 2026. In the long-term its main application targets for its direct-view LED displays are commercial screens, home theaters, and automotive displays. 

The Ford Motor Company is moving its world headquarters, after almost 70 years. The company is now construction of the new 2.1 million-square-foot headquarters, at Greenfield Village, and it hopes it will be all completed by 2027.

Ford says that the new headquarters will house 6 confidential Design Studios and a central Design Showroom with 10 vehicle turntables and a 64-foot (19.5 meters) microLED screen, allowing for full product reviews in a single space. This will be one of the largest microLED displays in the world.

LG Electronics announced that it has installed aa couple of its latest microLED MAGNIT displays at the new NEWoMan TAKANAWA, a flagship complex shopping center in Tokyo. 

The first display, placed in the North Building of the new center, is a 2.4 meter by 7.45 meter display. The second display, at the South building, is horizontal - 9 meters by 2.02 meters.

MicroLED-Connect is the microLED industry's top event series, offering a combination of exciting online webinars and a flagship annual on-site event. Our next meeting is on 23-25 September 2025, at the High Tech Campus, Eindhoven, Netherlands. MicroLED-Connect is co-organised by TechBlick and the MicroLED Industry Association and offers the best way to connect with the global MicroLED and AR/VR display industries and markets.

In this article, we will share a few short videos from past events. First up, we have Google's Bernard Kress, director of Google AR, that gave an excellent talk about the future of smart glasses. Interestingly, Bernard says that the two most important considerations are fashion, and prescription vision integration!

During SID Displayweek 2025, TCL demonstrated a large 219-inch tiled microLED display, that offered a resolution of 5740x1440, and a 120Hz refresh rate.

The company demonstrated this same display at China Display Innovation Forum (DIC FORUM 2025). They now disclose that the TV is made form 288 tiles, each 8.89-inch in size.

LG Electronics has been producing tiled microLED displays (branded as MAGNIT displays) for many years, utilizing its own technology based on PCB backplanes.

LG Display has been developing its own tiled microLED technologies, and it is now reported that the two companies are collaborating to bring LTPS-based microLED tiles to LG Electronics' signage. This is not a surprise, as in general we see a shift from PCB backplanes to LTPS backplanes for large-area signage microLED displays, as these offer higher performance, and a simplified circuit design.

Most companies in the display industry believe that microLED is the leading next-generation display technology, that will be able to replace LCDs and OLEDs in many applications. MicroLEDs offers many advantages – both technical such as higher durability and higher brightness and efficiency, but also in unique production processes and models.

The two leading Taiwanese display makers, AUO and Innolux, have been pushing forward aggressively with their microLED projects. This is mainly due to the fact that both companies do not have any real OLED projects, which means that it is easier for them to develop microLEDs as their next-generation technology. MicroLEDs could provide a way for both AUO and Innolux to “leapfrog” over OLED technology.

Against this backdrop, a potential merger between AUO and Innolux presents an intriguing strategic opportunity. By combining their technological expertise, manufacturing capabilities, and financial resources, a merged entity could potentially accelerate microLED development, and perhaps also receiving meaningful financial support from the Taiwanese government, as such as move could strengthen Taiwan's position in the global display industry.

Note that we have no indications that such a merger is even considered by the two companies, but we feel this is a fascinating topic that should be explored and is supported by several strong arguments.

LED screen designer and producer Nanolumens announces a strategic partnership with AUO Display Plus, to co-develop microLED large-format displays.

Nanolumens says that together with AUO, it will deliver advanced solutions for markets such as transportation, enterprise, retail, public art and cultural institutions. The two companies will showcase first prototypes next month.

LG Business Solutions, the “Official Display Partner of the Dallas Cowboys”, announced that it has completed the installation of seven MAGNIT microLED displays at the Dallas Cowboy's AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. 

The microLED displays have been installed in the newly renovated Bank of America Founders Club. There's a single 4.88 x 2.44 meters display, two 1.22 x 1.22 meters displays (these are LG's 1.2 mm LSAB012 displays), and two 1.83 x 1.83 meters displays (these are LG's 0.9 mm LSAB009 displays). The premium suites at the stadium also installed LG's OLED TVs. 

At CES 2024, Konka is demonstrating a massive 310" microLED display. The display offers 4K-Plus resolution (Konka did not detail the exact resolution), low reflectivity (<5%), 800 nits of brightness, high refresh rate (not detailed) and a large color gamut (85% BT.2020).

Konka says that this display uses the company's self developed and fully proprietary microLED chips. Konka produces its microLED chips using Aixtron's MOCVD systems.