A while ago, Xiao Lei evaluated a miniLED monitor on the market, and felt the experience improvement brought by this new panel technology, but you know what? miniLED is actually just a simplified version of a certain display technology. It is not the future successor of IPS and OLED panels recognized in the industry, so who is the real successor?
Perhaps the friends who know something about the display field have guessed the answer, yes, it is microLED, it is hailed as the next generation of the strongest display technology, but until now has not been able to mass market, only Samsung launched a product with a price of 1.05 million yuan, destined to be out of the ordinary people.
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However, perhaps next year we can see more affordable microLED display, BOE recently announced that it has successfully developed a commercial microLED chip, and in wavelength uniformity, performance, yield and other aspects have been verified by a number of enterprises, has been small batch external supply.
Boe has also made breakthroughs in microLED pixel devices, namely display panels. In October, it successfully realized the on-screen lighting. At present, it has realized the dynamic picture display of the sample screen.
If BOE succeeds in developing microLED technology, it will become the first Chinese company to master the technology, following Samsung, LG and SONY, which means that BOE is already at the same starting line as Samsung and LG.
Of course, the mass production still depends on next year's R&D progress. From laboratory to production line is the most difficult task for microLED technology, which is far more difficult than the mass production improvement of OLED and miniLED.
Why is microLED hard to mass produce?
Even Samsung and LG, which have made the most progress in this field, are only able to produce microLED panels in small batches, and the cost and yield are not optimistic, so much so that the price of Samsung's 110-inch microLED TV is as high as 1.50 million yuan, compared with SONY's 100-inch large-screen TV, the price has dropped to about 100,000 yuan.
With a price gap of nearly 10 times, microLED TVS are out of reach like castles in the air. Why are Microleds so hard to mass produce? The central problem is how to fit a huge number of micron-scale LED units neatly onto a flexible substrate and ensure that they emit light properly without breaking down.