Apple's strategic layout in the Micro LED move forward, the news came out downsizing team also led to discussion in the industry, from the action of Apple is not difficult to see the technical challenges facing Micro LED, especially for small and medium size is very difficult.
In fact, Micro LED's commercialization of the road, in addition to breaking through the bottlenecks in technology, but also must break through a wall, that is, the cost to be able to compete with the existing products.
In the field of small and medium-sized panels, the current trend of OLED technology has been very mature, from the price per unit area, each inch OLED unit price than the current Micro LED relatively low price, from research institutions LEDinside chart that can be explored.
Fancy Micro LED in large-size market potential, Sony and Samsung positive layout
Although Micro LED in the short term small and medium size market to achieve commercialization is still high, Micro LED opportunities in the field of large size is relatively clear.From the current large size market, Micro LED's rival OLED at 65 inches above the yield remains to be broken From the cost structure point of view, the cost per unit area of Micro LED and OLED unit distance has been reduced.
LEDinside said that in addition to the large-size panel market, the display billboard market will also be the future potential of Micro LED application market. The future of billboards to 4K to 8K resolution, is bound to use more LED chips, will Resulting in a substantial increase in material and process costs. If Micro LEDs gradually overcome the massive transfer of technical barriers in the future, it will be able to effectively enhance the resolution and reduce the cost, which is why Sony and Samsung are actively involved in the layout of Micro LED technology.
From the layout of Sony's point of view, the introduction of the Micro LED Display refresh the market, we also see Samsung trying to LED display into the cinema, unlike the general cinema are using projection mode, may be poor contrast, wear 3D Glasses, dim brightness and other pain points, Samsung is the introduction of LED display to solve the problem, but this is only the first step in the future Samsung will have the opportunity to introduce the Mini LED or Micro LED solutions in the cinema.
In addition, Micro LED still time technology breakthrough, many manufacturers and then layout of the first Mini LED, as a transitional product.Lininside pointed out that the Mini LED is between traditional LED and Micro LED, so for existing manufacturers , Many existing processes and equipment can continue to use.Especially the Mini LED technology with flexible substrate to achieve a high curved surface backlight form, will have the opportunity to be the first to import in mobile phones, TVs, automotive panels, and gaming and more Application.
Although Micro LED noise in the development of small size market, but from the international manufacturers are still actively break the bottleneck of Micro LED technology, and the technology to large-size market to move the action point of view, Micro LED development is still worth the wait.