February 2025

China-based microLED developer Jade Bird Display (JBD) launched a microLED-powered printhead module. The company says that this printhead offers a compact footprint, high performance, low power consumption, high accuracy and ultra-quiet operation. The company says that the microLED powered printhead delivers significant commercial value for printer manufacturers.

JBD says that traditional laser print modules are based on point-by-point scanning—from a single point to a line—and gradually expose the surface, whereas the new microLED printhead module employs a more streamlined one-dimensional linear LED array. This design enables an entire row to be exposed at once, significantly enhancing printing efficiency. JBD's new module offers a 1200 DPI resolution, and the company has a roadmap to reach 2400 DPI and 4800 DPI in the future. 

Next week, on March 6-7, MicroLED Connect will be hosting a two-day virtual event focused on MicroLED and AR/VR innovations, technologies, manufacturing, markets and more. The online event will be an excellent opportunity to learn the latest microLED and AR/VR updates and connect with industry professionals on our excellent online event platform.

The virtual 2-day conference will include over 25 exciting talks by leading microLED developers, AR/VR developers, supply chain companies and top-edge researchers. This will be an excellent opportunity to learn and connect with the microLED industry, on an easy to access virtual event. You can register here, with a yearly pass to MicroLED-Connect (with an option to also include entry into our September on-site event in Eindhoven, The Netherlands). Our members also gain access to past event recordings.

Ennostar Inc, established in 2021 as a joint venture between Epistar and Lextar, announced that it has decided to restructure and marge Epistar and Lextar into a single company that will be called Ennostar Corp. The merger will formally happen in October 2025.

Ennostar hopes that this move will help to accelerate the company's growth in the high-value-added optoelectronics market, which includes microLED displays, as the company wishes to increase its product range beyond LED devices into high level systems and solutions.

The MicroLED Industry Association launches a new project to initiate an international microLED standard. The association recognizes the need to align microLED developers and make sure the the industry progresses in a unified way as there are many challenges towards full scale microLED production - and adoption.

MicroLED Industry Association members will meet on March 24 to discuss the proposed project and select the companies that will lead the standard drive. 

We are happy to announce a new edition of our MicroLED Transfer Process Market Report, with all the latest information, new technologies and companies, and more. MicroLEDs are advancing quickly and the transfer process remains one of the key challenges. 

Reading this report, you'll learn all about:

• All known microLED transfer processes
• The current industry and market status
• Advantages and disadvantages of transfer technologies
• Future technologies and roadmaps

The report package also provides:

• An introduction to microLED production processes
• Over 25 presentations, brochures and technical papers
• MicroLED chip-level market estimates and forecasts
• Free updates for a year

This microLED display transfer process report provides a comprehensive look into current and future LED transfer technologies processes used for the production of microLED displays. The report covers everything you need to know about the current status of the industry.

The MicroLED Industry Association published the second edition of its soft-standard document, that focuses on microLED microdisplays. The new edition adds to the original document, with a discussion on system performance and more system considerations.

Most analysts and developers agree that the AR market is one of the targets for microLED displays. MicroLED microdisplays offer many advantages for AR developers – mainly very high brightness and high efficiency. In this soft-stsandard document, the MicroLED Industry Association provide guidelines for microdisplay developers and device makers, identifying the different properties of microLED microdisplays and microdisplays-based systems and suggesting how to disclose display metrics and performance.

Canada-based Hyperlume announced that it has raised $12.5 million USD in its seed round, led by BDC's Deep Tech Venture Fund and ArcTern Ventures with participation from MUUS Climate Partners, SOSV, LG Technology VEntures and Intel Capital.

Hyperlume was established in 2022 to develop a low-energy optical interconnect solution for chip-to-chip communication. The company's technology relies on microLED arrays to enable high bandwidth and lower power consumption.

The Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MTIE) has announced that it will allocate 38.7 billion Won (about $26.5 million USD) to support the Korean display industry and help it maintain its competitiveness, especially against competition from China.

The main goal of this new award is to support Korea's microLED, OLED and AR/VR display industries. The support will target small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations and universities and research institutes. The government announced 40 types of projects that will be awarded funds, all R&D projects with a time frame of 1-4 years.

MicroLED Connect, our hybrid event series focusing on the microLED industry, will be hosting a two-day virtual event focused on MicroLED and AR/VR innovations, technologies, manufacturing, markets and more. The online event will take place on March 6-7, and will be an excellent opportunity to learn the latest microLED and AR/VR updates and connect with industry professionals on our excellent online event platform.

Today we have published the agenda for this event, which you can also see below, with over 25 exciting talks by leading microLED developers, AR/VR developers, supply chain companies and top-edge researchers. This will be an excellent opportunity to learn and connect with the microLED industry. You can register for the event here, with a yearly pass to MicroLED-Connect (with an option to also include entry into our September on-site event in Eindhoven, The Netherlands). Our members also gain access to past event recordings.

Touch Taiwan is one of the world's leading display conferences, and the MicroLED-Info team will attend this year's event. Touch Taiwan will take place in Taipei, in April 16-18, and is expected to bring together a large part of the display industry, and include a conference and an exhibition. We're looking forward to seeing new display technologies, with a focus on microLED displays of course, new products and demonstrators and meeting up with industry leaders!

We'll be happy to schedule meetings - so if you plan to come to the event, do contact us and we will be happy to schedule a meeting. We're really looking forward to this event, to meeting our display industry friends, and to host the special MicroLED Association dinner meeting.