Micro LED is regarded as a new generation display, is expected to break through the AMOLED panel line of defense of the main weapon, Apple in Taiwan Longtan set up a research and development base, the main study project is a Micro led, the recent industry spread Apple reduced the size of the Micro led team, and different related personnel, The main reason is the massive transfer technology bottleneck difficult to break through, follow-up fear will delay micro led related application of a large number of launch time. Industry insiders pointed out that Apple to reduce the Taiwan Longtan Plant Micro led team size, mainly because of the rapid progress of large-scale transfer, the short term can not be produced, so the relevant personnel transfer to do other things, the overall micro led team has not been abolished, only the size of the small, organization has been different. Although the micro LED display technology research and development twists and turns, but some of the plant that the Apple Longtan factory is responsible for technology research and development, the future focus will still be transferred to Apple headquarters, the initial stage of the Longtan plant task may have come to an agreement, Apple is not to give up or delay the technical research, and Led with fast response, high resolution and other features, in the future in the wearing device or AR/VR products such as applications, there is still a lot of room to play. Apple in 2014 hit 300 million $number billion dollars from the factory in the hands of the Luxvue, one of the world's most patented micro LED technology companies, but also because of Apple investment, making luxvue and micro led trend attention, but Apple maintained a consistent low-key attitude, Let the Longtan plant to cast a layer of mystery color. The current AMOLED panel is sweeping the smartphone market, the application of the TV is also getting more and more, Samsung displays (Samsung Display) is the global master of the most AMOLED mobile phone panel suppliers, Apple actively put micro led research and development, one of the goals is to hope that the future micro LEDs can replace the role of AMOLED in the Panel application. Micro LED processing in the development process is faced with a considerable number of technical challenges, of which the most difficult to transfer the highest, must break through the bottleneck includes equipment precision, transfer good rate, transfer time, process technology, testing methods, can be heavy labor and processing costs. According to the patents issued by Luxvue, the industry that according to its method, production line equipment suction head can only transfer 1 square centimeters of area each time, and every time to heat and cool, the process is quite complicated, to transfer a 4.5-generation substrate need a few days time, but also will hit the suction head, Can not meet the demand for commercial production. Although the micro LED technology is very difficult, the application of the smartphone on the progress is more sluggish, this is the Apple shrink and the micro led team's main cause. The supply chain industry pointed out that Apple will continue to carry out micro LED applications in smart watches and augmented Reality (AR) development, in particular, AR application is regarded as a milestone, which is an important application of the micro led back panel of Apple and TSMC, which can avoid the bottleneck of breakthrough in the technology of massive transfer. In fact, Micro LED is involved in a wide range of industries, across the LED, semiconductor, panel downstream supply chain, all chips, machines, materials, testing equipment, and so on, with the past specifications of different, high difficulty of the technical threshold, as well as the various industries of communication between the integration, the development of the whole process. Industry analysts, Apple reduced the size of micro led team personnel, and different related personnel, which represents a huge transfer of the progress than imagined pessimistic, the application of the production time will be deferred. Taiwan's panel factory has not made a large-scale investment in the AMOLED panel, but hopes to develop the micro led, but after Apple scaled back the team, it is expected that its confidence in the production of micro LED will fall, and the input of the relevant research and development resources may be affected. Taiwan's two tigers are actively developing micro led, but so far there is no clear production planning, and turn first to develop mini LED. Group creators believe that the Micro LED display is expected to be available within 5 years, but before this, the Mini LED display will become the outpost first, the group creates the mini LED technology to be ready within 1 years, estimated in the next 3-5 years, with the mini led with the soft substrate, may produce many new creation product appearance, Directly challenge the AMOLED panel. Friend Tatsu said, Micro LED is still in the laboratory stage, if Taiwan can develop successfully, the LCD and led two major industries are positive development, but still need to break through the Micro led production and output obstacles, still can not set a listing timetable. The company is currently discussing with suppliers and customers on which products to apply the Mini LED.
