Plessey Semiconductors, together with Meta Platforms, announced that they have developed the a native red microLED microdisplay that achieves up to 6 million nits with a chip size of 5 um. Plessey says that this is world's brightest microLED device at this size.
In March 2020, Meta signed a deal with Plessey to dedicate all of Plessey's microLED manufacturing operations to support Meta with its own product development. Facebook pretty much acquired Plessey's microLED operations with this exclusive deal.
Last year it was reported that the development based on Plessey's technology and processes did not progress as expected, and Meta has decided to abandon the Plessey project. It is good to hear that this is not the case and that there's significant progress.
In September 2024, Meta announced the Orion AR headset project, based on microLED microdisplays. It was assumed that Meta uses JBD's microdisplays.
