MicroLED Tech Start-up Brings On Ex-Daktronics CEO Kurtenbach As Interim CEO May 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes Longtime Daktronics CEO Reece Kurtenbach has resurfaced as the interim CEO of a small US-Irish company that is focused on the technology for mass transferring microLEDs and then driving visuals with micro integrated circuits and what X Display calls a Pixel Engine. Kurtenbach was President, CEO, and Chair of Daktronics from 2013 to 2025, but …
TCL Demos Both Godzilla and SIM Card-sized MicroLEDs At Display Week May 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology, aka TCL, has a big stand at this week’s Display Week in Silicon Valley, and among the demos is 219-inch microLED video wall display. It is tiled, so it is not one single slab of screen. It has a 36:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 5,760 by 1,440, so …
Display Week: Smartkem’s CEO Explains The Challenge With Making MicroLED, And How His UK Firm Deals With That May 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Display Week is on right now in San Jose – a conference and small trade show that attracts display nerds from all over the planet. I’ve been – though not this year – and it is the sort of event that’s best suited to people with more than a casual interest in what’s new with …
Nanolumens, AUO Display Plus Form Partnership Focused On MicroLED May 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based LED display vendor Nanolumens clearly sees a future for microLED as a large format display surface, having announced what’s termed as a strategic partnership with Taiwanese display manufacturing giant AUO, which has put much or most of the its expansion efforts from LCD to LED displays into the still R&D-ish micro side of the …
SID’s Display Week Expected To Highlight Advances In MicroLED, Color E-Paper: Futuresource May 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a piece advancing display technologies it expects to see demonstrated at next week’s Society for Information Display event in San Jose, CA. The advancer, by Principal Consultant Ted Romanowitz, drafts off what he saw at Touch Taiwan, in Guess Where. As happens these days, much of the …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2025 – AI Stitched Into Many Aspects Of LED Display Tech April 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg I was chatting this morning with Florian Rotberg of Sixteen:Nine content partner invidis, who who was in Beijing last week for InfoComm China, a sister show to InfoComm (US) and ISE in Barcelona. It runs every April and attracts the same kind of vendors and attendees seen at the related shows. What was interesting was …
AUO Showcasing New Kind Of Energy-Sipping LCD, And Two-Sided Transparent MicroLED, At Touch Taiwan April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Probably the biggest vendor at Touch Taiwan this week in Guess Where is AUO, the giant white-label display manufacturer that has its main office about an hour south of Taipei. The company has pushed out an advancer piece talking about stand highlights, and the two that seem most interesting involve a new kind of energy-sipping …
Realfiction, PlayNitride Unveiling New Kind Of Glasses-Free 3D Display Based Around MicroLED April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Touch Taiwan starts tomorrow in Taipei and among the announcements advancing manufacturers’ showcases is one involving a tie-up between a domestic company, PlayNitride, and Danish specialty display company Realfiction, for a new kind of glasses-free 3D display that uses MicroLED. What is touted as the world’s first MicroLED-based 3D display is a 9-inch unit that …
Auto Displays Seen By Taiwan’s Ennostar As First Scaled Use-Case For MicroLED March 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a little nerdy but interesting, as it shows the direction of one of the Taiwan companies putting a lot of money and resources in microLED as an emerging part of the display market. Ennostar, which has Taiwanese display giant AU Optronics (AUO) as its biggest shareholder, sees automotive displays and lighting as the …
Chinese University Researchers Develop LEDs So Small 127K Can Be Packed In Per Inch Of A Display March 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is not all that long ago that display industry people were debating with solutions providers the merits of 4K vs full HD, and the dubious value of next-gen,pixel-rich 8K displays, so it’s almost funny now to read about R&D efforts to reduce LED light chips down to nano sizes. Like displays that have 127,000 pixels …
