STRATACACHE Hopes To Be Producing MicroLEDs Display Chips In US By Q4 2021 January 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes More details are starting to emerge about STRATACACHE’s intentions for that microLED production facility the company is spinning up in Eugene, Oregon. The new factory, reports microled-info, will be a complete microLED production line, from epiwafer (on 300 mm silicon wafers), through transfer process and to final module assembly. The company plans to produce a …
DV LED Special Report – January 2021 January 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Jan. 2021 Direct View LED Special Report by Sixteen:Nine is now available for free download. There are no strings attached. No fee. No registration form. No tracking. Just click on the download link here and you can grab the PDF file, and save to your PC or other device. All I’d like and appreciate …
Patent Office Shoots Down LG’s Plans To Trademark QNED Term For Its New Premium Displays January 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Bob Raikes, who does the paywalled but valuable What Bob Saw newsletter through Display Daily … The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied an application by LG Electronics to register the the term QNED as a trademark. The patent office said that QNED is an acronym for Quantum Nano-emitting Diode, so it …
DV LED Report Coming Monday January 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes That promised direct view LED Special Report will be out early Monday, available as a free, no-strings, no registration download. The 50-plus page report, in PDF format, is a follow-up on the original Special Report done by Sixteen:Nine and released in early 2018. Much has changed, and that’s reflected in the material. The report is …
Sony Donates Crystal LED Video Wall, Other AV Tech, To New Int’l African American Museum January 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony Corporation of America is making a $1.7 million product donation to the the International African American Museum (IAAM) that’s going up in Charleston, SC, with the key component being a 32 foot wide fine pitch LED video wall. The in-kind donation is made possible through the Sony’s Global Social Justice Fund, and will be used to create displays …
Leyard Turns On Vast “MicroLED” Video Wall In Chinese EnergyCo Control Room January 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The giant Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard has started manufacturing, shipping and installing large format what it calls microLED displays – lighting up a vast wall in a Chinese utility company’s control room. The wall-filling display was activated on Dec. 31, 2020 for CHN ENERGY. That company is based in Beijing, but it is huge, …
TCL Unveils Next-Gen Super-Thin, High-Contrast Displays Using MiniLED For CES January 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Chinese electronics firm TCL is very much a consumer-driven company, but what happens with TVs often finds its way to commercial display design. It is CES this week and the firm announced a range of new products, including new miniLED-based TVs that show where that technology best fits on the commercial side of displays. …
Sony Teases Update To Its Crystal LED Display; Inc. Bravia TV Version December 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Sony appears poised to announce a new, updated version of its much-celebrated Crystal LED video wall – the first mainstream commercial display manufacturer to ship a product based on microLED. It was way ahead of its time a few years ago, when Sony first started showing Crystal LED at trade shows. But a handful of …
Samsung Launching MicroLED TV For Very Upmarket Consumers Early 2021 December 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Various tech blogs are reporting that Samsung is planning to launch a 110-inch microLED TV for the consumer market early in the new year. It’s not clear from reports whether the display will be a fixed-size version of The Wall, the company’s flagship product series for microLED, or something marketed as a different brand. It does …