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Innolux will be showcasing its latest microLED display technologies at CES 2026. It released some initial information, which we detail below, hopefully next week we will be able to share more.

First up, Innolux is showing a new transparent microLED display, that it calls a MicroLED Display Window. Innolux did not share any technical details, but it says that the display offers high clarity, high transmittance, high brightness, and high resolution.

In early 2025, Samsung demonstrated a prototype microLED smart mirror device, that utilizes AI to scan your face and recommend treatment solutions to tailor your skin. Today Samsung Electronics announced that it is set to release this device as an actual product.

Samsung aims to grow the AI beauty mirror not as a single product but as a "K-beauty data platform", building an ecosystem that connects skin diagnosis to product recommendations. Samsung's first partners are Amorepacific, Kolmar Korea, Olive Young, and Twiinnet. Last year it collaborated with Innisfree, which will likely be a partner too.

Peugeot has unveiled a new concept car, called the Polygon Concept car, that showcases several new technologies - including several microLED displays.

First of all, behind the innovative new Hypersquare steering wheel, Peugeot placed a transparent microLED display embedded within the windshield. This display is 24x74cm, or similar to a 31-inch display. Interestingly, the display is visible also from outside the car, which enables animations to be displayed to outside viewers when the car is stationary.

Tianma says it has made a significant breakthrough in its transparent microLED display technology, and the company demonstrated several transparent microLED displays at a tradeshow in China with sizes up to 9" and with adjustable transparency. 

Unfortunately we do not have any more details about these new prototypes, but it is understood that Tianma is targeting the automotive market for these new displays.

Today we published a new edition of our Transparent MicroLED and OLED Market Report, with all the latest information and updates from this interesting upcoming industry and market, including the new prototypes and displays recently unveiled by microLED and OLED developers.

Reading this report, you'll learn all about:

• Transparent OLED and MicroLED properties and advantages
• The transparent OLED and MicroLED industry
• What kind of transparent OLEDs are currently on the market
• The transparent OLED lighting market

The report package also provides:

• Transparent OLED display product listing
• A guide into buying transparent OLEDs
• The main challenges towards transparent displays
• Free updates for a year

This transparent displays market report provides a great introduction to transparent OLED and MicroLED technologies and covers everything you need to know about the market and industry now and in the future. This is a great guide for anyone who's thinking about adopting transparent displays in their products or that wants to understand this industry and market throughout.

Two days ago we reported that TCL CSoT demonstrated new microLED displays at Displayweek 2025, and now the company shared more details about all of the microLEDs it demonstrated.

So first up, we have the world's smallest microLED microdisplay- at just 0.05-inches. The display offers a resolution of 256x86 (5080 PPI), with a 5 micron pitch. The display is a monochrome green color, with a brightness that exceeds 4 million nits. TCL says that the CMOS backplane is highly efficient, and the total power consumption of the display is below 10 mW.

Earlier this month, LED screen designer and producer Nanolumens announces a strategic partnership with AUO Display Plus, to co-develop microLED large-format displays. Now the two companies announced that next month at InfoComm 2025 they will demonstrate the first commercial display developed as part of this partnership

A 60" transparent microLED display, AUO (2024)

The display, called the SeeThrµ Transparent MicroLED Display is a transparent microLED display that offers up to 60% transparency. There are no more details available, but if this will be based on AUO's 60-inch transparent microLED display, it will feature a 1920x1080 resolution and up to 600 nits of brightness. 

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.

In January 2025, microLED developer VueReal launched reference design kits (RDKs) to enable product designers to buy microLED display samples and integrate into new designs. There were three different kits: monochrome microLED lighting panels, microLED microdisplays, and passive matrix and active matrix (LTPS) transparent microLED displays, ranging in size from 3.5-inch to 10-inch.

Now VueReal announced that it is expanding its RDK portfolio, with new industry-specific bundles (what they refer to as vertical RDKs). These new kits are specifically built for automotive and consumer electronics.

AUO announced that it will showcase new microLED display prototypes and technologies at Touch Taiwan next week. First up, the company has demonstrated a 42-inch single module microLED, which is said to be the world's largest (beating AUO's own record at 31-inch from 2024). The module offers a brightness of up to 1,000 nits, and AUO is showing a 127-inch tiled TV made up from these new modules. AUO will also show a full range of microLED TVs, developed in collaboration with Samsung Electronics. These TVs are based on AUO's MicroLED backplane technology.

Another new display will be the world's thinnest 17.3-inch dual-sided transparent Micro LED display.  AUO did not detail any more information on that display - or just how thin is it. Among its use cases are interactive, first-class cabin interfaces that facilitate seamless communication between passengers and flight attendants via real-time translation on a transparent screen. The display also has use in commercial advertising, home decoration, points of sales and many other fields where the display can increase tech and style while also transmitting information.