It is said that this microdisplay has a brightness of more than 250,000 nits and a color gamut of more than 100%. It is currently the brightest full-color microdisplay in the AR application market. Relevant customized products are expected to be mass-produced between the end of 2024 and 2025.
Lynch Wu, deputy director of Nitron, said that AR glasses are expected to become one of the most important technological products in the future, and waveguide lenses are expected to become the mainstream of AR glasses.
Wu Zhiling said that improving optical efficiency is still a big challenge, which makes it difficult for current display technology to meet market demands for brightness, size and power consumption. Since AR glasses have high requirements for brightness and size, it believes that the most promising display technology is MicroLED microdisplay technology because it has the characteristics of self-illumination, high brightness, and small size.
AR glasses are suitable for consumer electronics, military, industrial, sports, medical and gaming applications; however, it is crucial to find the appropriate platform for each product. For example, AR glasses for consumer electronics must consider comfort, power saving, brightness, fashion, weight, etc.; gaming applications emphasize immersive experience, large viewing angle, high resolution.
Last year, Nitron signed a Micro LED strategic agreement with Raontech, a Korean Micro Display-related technology manufacturer, to supply the first batch of backplane wafers for Micro LED. Raontech jointly develops the core component market for next-generation XR devices by combining ultra-low power consumption, ultra-small silicon backplane and system-on-chip (SoC) technology with Raontech's Micro LED bonding, coloring and modularization technology and mass production capabilities.
Nitron has stated that the company is optimistic about Micro LED entering AR, large-size TV, automotive and other applications. Nittron will continue to promote the Micro LED ecosystem. The company's technical advantages lie in high uniformity 6-inch R/G/B LED wafers and high yield R/G/B Micro For LED chips, the wafer yield rate is greater than 99%, the LED wafer utilization rate is greater than 80%, and it has excellent mass transfer and mass inspection technology.
It is reported that Nitron established the first MicroLED production line in 2019, including epitaxy, chip manufacturing, mass transfer, large-scale testing and large-scale repair. With self-produced equipment and calibration capabilities, it is one of the few MicroLED manufacturers in the world that has shipped and passed customer quality verification. Currently, it has three main product lines: PixeLED display on TFT (thin film transistor), PixeLED matrix on PCB, and μ-PixeLED on CMOS, which are used in large-size splicing screens, consumer electronics, automotive displays, wearable devices and AR glasses. With more than 863 patent applications, covering the entire MicroLED ecosystem. Most patents cover displaysdevices (34%), followed by microchips (22%) and mass transfer and quality testing (16%).
Innolux also announced yesterday that its first-quarter revenue was NT$50.5 billion (approximately RMB 11.42 billion), an increase of 10.7% in the previous quarter and a decrease of 5.5% in the quarter. Large-size combined shipments totaled 25.49 million pieces, a decrease of 0.1% from the previous quarter; small and medium-sized combined shipments totaled 67.42 million pieces, a 6.1% decrease from the previous quarter.
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