December 2018

2018 is soon over - and it was an interesting year for the MicroLED industry. While there are still many challenges ahead before real commercialization can begin, it seems that Micro-LED is being developed vigorously as many in the display industry believe that this technology could be the future of the display industry.

Here are the top 10 stories posted on MicroLED-Info in 2018, ranked by popularity (i.e. how many people read the story):

1. Sony demonstrate two Crystal-LED displays at ISE 2018 (Feb 16)
2. PlayNitride to setup a $17 million Micro-LED production facility, reportedly in talks with Apple towards Micro-LED collaboration (Apr 5)
3. Here is Samsung's 146" Micro-LED TV, "The Wall" (Jan 8)
4. Coherent nicely summarizes the differences between LCDs, OLEDs and Micro-LED displays (Jun 6)
5. Samsung aims to release a premium Micro-LED consumer TV in 2019 (Jul 22)
6. Samsung to launch a 75" Micro-LED TV in 2019 based on PlayNitride's chips? (Sep 18)
7. Reports from Korea say that LG's first Micro-LED TV is on track for a September launch (Aug 19)
8. Innolux unveils an automotive 10.1" mini-LED display prototype (Jan 8)
9. LG Display aims to demonstrate its first Micro-LED TV in September 2018, will be larger than Samsung's Wall (Feb 23)
10. Samsung officially launches its The Wall Professional Micro-LED TV, starts to accept pre-orders in the US (Jun 7)

In September 2018 we reported that China-based San'an Optoelectronics is gearing up to setup its first micro-LED epitaxial wafer and chip production line in Q1 2019.

According to Digitimes, San'an now plans to start sampling Micro LED chips as early as January 2019. San'an says that micro-LEDs are not mature yet, but early trial adoption will begin in the second half of 2019 - for movie theaters, TVs and automotive displays.

The Netherlands-based sustainable building developer EDGE Technologies has installed a Sony Crystal LED display at the company's headquarter, the EDGE Olympic office building in Amsterdam.

The custom-build display at the EDGE office is 3.2 x 1.8 meters in size, with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. Sony's Crystal LED is built from tiled 403x453 mm (320x360) micro-LED modules.