Apple Watch LED with new light

At present, LED (light emitting diode) related applications, and lighting panel backlight use accounted for the bulk, resulting in LED chip factory can not get rid of the price war, Apple has developed a Micro LED (micro light emitting diode) Apple Watch prototype, have the opportunity to mass production in 2017 ~ 2018 introduction. Although technically there are some to be overcome, but the Department of LCD plant, LED plant is quite good, so it was named killer application technology.

Apple acquired LuxVue in May 2014 this small company, because it has a large number of devices to move tiny LED chips, which happens to be the current Micro LED need to overcome. EPISTAR, AUO and MediaTek have LuxVue shares, but due to Apple's acquisition of LuxVue of the old shares, shareholders are forced to Taiwan factory clearing, but from the "Macedonian" stake in the company's history, already can sniff out LCD, LED factory layout of the next generation of display technology traces.

In fact, Apple's Longtan Park in Taiwan, before the use of Qualcomm's Miraso display of the old production line, into the experimental line, so that we have recently been in the attention of Micro LED.

Recently, the industry came out, Apple has imported Micro LED Apple Watch, and the output of the prototype, the object of cooperative development directed at the crystal, but the crystal power can not comment on this. Although the prototype is not equal to mass production, but Apple's move seems to make Micro LED production closer.

Chairman Wu Qinghui said East Bay, Micro LED volume ratio of fine hair, TV panel size, demand more than 10 million, Samsung, LG, apple, crystal electric had been put into development, if successful mass production, is expected to become an important application to the LED capacity.

EPISTAR said that at present in the process there are bottlenecks to be overcome, but the biggest problem is not on the epitaxial wafer factory factory, as long as the existing equipment changes should be put into production, but also have the ability to modify the crystal electric equipment, so the production distance so close, "said not far away". Because the Micro LED single point drive, according to industry estimates, if the mobile phone manufacturers to apply Micro LED, little red LED capacity will be packed, crystal electric is the main beneficiaries; blue, green chip demand will be stimulated.

The wafer factory pointed out that the high possibility of monochromatic Micro LED production, but the application is dull, if to RGB primary colors, the same size of the cost is 1 times more than OLED; now Samsung control OLED market share of more than 9, the other LCD factory, LED factory in order to consolidate the backlight market share is to recover, Micro LED is a concern, but there are many variables that need to be overcome.

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