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ByteDance invests in China’s ReRAM startup
ByteDance invests in China’s ReRAM startup
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ByteDance Ltd. (Beijing, China), the owner of video-sharing app provider TikTok, has invested in InnoStar Semiconductor (Shanghai, China), a Chinese…
Change at the top at Helio Display Materials
Change at the top at Helio Display Materials
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Helio Display Materials Ltd. (Oxford, England) has formed a partnership with Haylo Ventures to focus on displays for AR/VR headsets…
Q-Pixel to demo 3K, 6,800ppi microLED display
Q-Pixel to demo 3K, 6,800ppi microLED display
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Q-Pixel Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.) has produced a 3K by 1K resolution active-matrix color microLED screen that measures 1.1cm by…
Hella restructure sees €600m BTHC sell off
Hella restructure sees €600m BTHC sell off
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Mahle and Forvia Hella have completed the €600m sale of their German joint venture BHTC to Auo in Taiwan. The…

Toppan to show prototype display at Embedded World  
Toppan to show prototype display at Embedded World  
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Japanese developer Toppan is to show a next-generation Blanview TFT display under development at a show in Europe next week. The protype Blanview TFT display will be shown at Embedded…
Distec changes its name to FORTEC Integrated
Distec changes its name to FORTEC Integrated
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Distributor and assembly house Distec in Germany is changing its name to operate as FORTEC Integrated GmbH. Distec Vertrieb von elektronischen Bauelementen has been part of the FORTEC Group since…
MicroLED production boost for automotive designs
MicroLED production boost for automotive designs
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Canadian startup VueReal has signed a deal with Continental to use a new manufacturing technique for microLED displays in automotive applications. VueReal has developed a technique to package microLEDs into…
Micledi grabs $25 million to make microLED displays for AR
Micledi grabs $25 million to make microLED displays for AR
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Micledi Microdisplays BV (Leuven, Belgium), a microLED startup founded in 2019, has raised about US$25 million in a Series A funding round to commercialize microLED displays for augmented reality (AR)…
Apple set to drive OLED display adoption in mobile PCs
Apple set to drive OLED display adoption in mobile PCs
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The market for mobile PCs with organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays is set to more than double in 2024 and continue climbing through 2028, according to Omdia. The market…
A wearable underwater touchscreen
A wearable underwater touchscreen
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Researchers in Korea have developed a wearable touchscreen that can operate underwater. The wearable underwater touchscreen uses afterglow luminescent particles (ALPs) in mechanoluminescence (ML) and mechanical quenching (MQ) The team…
SerDes transmitters support up to four high res displays
SerDes transmitters support up to four high res displays
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Inova Semiconductors in Germany has launched two multichannel SerDes transmitter chips for high resolution automotive video applications. The INAP567TAQ and INAP597TAQ transmitter ICs support the APIX (Automotive Pixel Link) multi-channel…
10x breakthrough for blue OLED performance
10x breakthrough for blue OLED performance
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A groundbreaking study by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Samsung is providing new insights on improving blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED) performance for displays and lighting. The researchers…
Displays integrate Android 13 on Raspberry Pi module
Displays integrate Android 13 on Raspberry Pi module
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FORTEC Integrated in Germany has developed a series of panel PC touch displays with the Android 13 operating system. The POS-IQ-PRO panel PCs from Distec were developed with Android specialist…
Saphlux takes monolithic microLED display close to production
Saphlux takes monolithic microLED display close to production
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Ten-year-old startup Saphlux Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) has introduced the T2 series of monolithic full-color microLED dispays based on its NPQD technology. The T2 is a development from the T1…
Porotech selects foundry PSMC to make GaN-on-Si microLEDs
Porotech selects foundry PSMC to make GaN-on-Si microLEDs
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Poro Technologies Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has partnered with Taiwanese open foundry Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC) for the mass production of GaN-on-silicon microLEDs on 200mm-diameter wafers for display applications. Poro,…
Inkjet printing 20bn perovskite quantum dots for microLED displays
Inkjet printing 20bn perovskite quantum dots for microLED displays
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Swiss startup Scrona has used its electrohydrodynamic (EHD) inkjet printing for microLED displays with quantum dots. The development with Avantama combines Scrona’s EHD inkjet process with high-patterning resolution of perovskite…
Perovskite display materials move to pilot production
Perovskite display materials move to pilot production
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Helio Display Materials Ltd. (Oxford, England), a startup developing metal-halide perovskite materials for display applications, has announced it is moving to pilot-scale production. Pilot-scale fabrication of perovskite materials is ramping…
IMEC makes perovskite LEDs 1,000 times brighter than OLED
IMEC makes perovskite LEDs 1,000 times brighter than OLED
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Nanoelectronics research institute IMEC has reported a metal-halide perovskite LED stack that is 1,000 times brighter than OLEDs and a candidate laser material. Organic LEDs are more easily manufactured and…
Trends at CES 2024
Trends at CES 2024
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CES 2024 saw two new transparent TVs using OLED and microLED technologies as well as a wide range of announcements in AI, building automation, smart windows and the industrial metaverse.
Breakthrough for single panel RGB microLED display
Breakthrough for single panel RGB microLED display
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Mojo Vision in the US has integrated red, green and blue (RGB) sub-pixels into a first-of-its-kind single panel. The single panel microLED display, shown at CES 2024 in the US…
Single Chip LCOS panel for smart glasses
Single Chip LCOS panel for smart glasses
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Omnivision has developed a low-power, small form factor liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) panel for AR smart glasses. The OP03050 developed by Omnivision integrates the LCOS array, driving circuit, framebuffer and interface…
Google looks at real time 360° holographic head up display  
Google looks at real time 360° holographic head up display  
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Researchers in the UK are working with Google on a high-resolution three-dimensional real time holographic display for automotive head up displays (HUD). The researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford…
Sharp goes all in on AI at CES
Sharp goes all in on AI at CES
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Sharp is showing a wide range of technologies at CES 2024, from generative AI and AI enabled wine sensor to lightweight solar cells for space. Sharp has developed its own…
Foxconn selects Porotech for microLED displays
Foxconn selects Porotech for microLED displays
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MicroLED technology developer Poro Technologies Ltd. (Cambridge, England) is working with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) on developing microLED displays for augmented reality (AR) and other applications. Poro Technologies –…
Active optical cables enhance MIPI-based camera interconnect
Active optical cables enhance MIPI-based camera interconnect
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Silicon Line GmbH (Munich, Germany) and Leopard Imaging Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) have partnered to demonstrate active optical cables (AOC) for MIPI-D PHY based camera interconnects at CES 2024. The demo…
Mojo Vision raises US$43.5 million for microLEDs
Mojo Vision raises US$43.5 million for microLEDs
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MicroLED display technology developer Mojo Vision Inc. (Saratoga, Calif.) has closed its Series A investment round at US$43.5 million. The company, which was founded in 2015, said it would use…
MicroLED displays delayed but coming in two to three years
MicroLED displays delayed but coming in two to three years
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The commercialization of microLED display technology, the source of much optimisim in 2017, has been delayed but should arrive in the next two or three years, says Yole Group. The…
Contactless input panel fits industrial applications
Contactless input panel fits industrial applications
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Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) has started selling its AirInput product, which supports both touch and touchless input based on capacitive sensing. Capacitive touch panels have limitations associated with…


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