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Virtual Reality: The Most Disruptive Technology of the Next Decade

Virtual reality has already had a major impact in a range of different industries. IDTechEx predicts in its recent market research report that this technology will grow to $8Bn by 2030.

Indium Corporation: Metal TIMs

At the recent IMAPS-UK Thermal Management event, Indium Corporation presented on the use of metal thermal interface materials for high-performance computing applications.

3D Printed Make Up Technology Wins Innovation Award

The Industry Prize for the best cosmetic innovation of the year was awarded to ColorForge, a US-based start-up that has developed a custom manufacturing and packaging system for make-up products. ColorForge has developed a revolutionary 3D printer that can produce hundreds of unique color cosmetics in a single print batch in less than 5 hours. Currently a full print batch takes about 32 hours.

AI Detects COVID-19 on Chest X-Rays with Accuracy and Speed

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence platform that detects COVID-19 by analyzing X-ray images of the lungs. Called DeepCOVID-XR, the machine-learning algorithm outperformed a team of specialized thoracic radiologists — spotting COVID-19 in X-rays about 10 times faster and 1-6% more accurately.

Daymak Launches Six Light Electric Vehicles

Daymak will be launching Daymak Avvenire - a full lineup of six light electric vehicles designed to invigorate the future of eco-friendly micro mobility. The Daymak Avvenire series includes six individual vehicles, ranging from ebikes and covered mobility scooters to a personal flying vehicle.

Global Pharma R&D AI, Data Science & Informatics Summit 2020

This premium article discusses lessons learned from this event, particularly the key trends and challenges currently facing companies utilising AI in drug discovery applications. It also provides company profiles for the AI and pharmaceutical companies that spoke at the event.

IDTechEx Release New Report on Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle Markets

Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have seen a significant growth in sales over recent years and the HEV market is set to increase in 2020 despite the implications of COVID-19 on the global automotive industry.

VueReal

VueReal is a Canadian company founded in January 2016 by OLED industry veterans. It provides solutions for micro-LED device, transfer process, backplane design, and system implementation.

TCL Technology

TCL is active in micro-LED display related research and development.

Sony Corporation

The profile describes Sony's efforts and outcomes of micro-LED displays.

Samsung Display

Samsung showed many efforts related to micro-LED displays

Plessey Semiconductors

Plessey is a UK-based working on MicroLEDs based on GaN-on-silicon technology. Plessey operates 150 mm and 200 mm wafer processing facilities to undertake design, test and assembly of products. The company provides illuminators for display engines (Digital Micro-mirror Device DMD and LCOS) and full-field emissive microLED displays that combine very high density RGB pixel arrays with high-performance in-house developed CMOS backplanes to produce high brightness, low power and high frame rate image sources for head mounted displays (HMDs), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) systems.

PlayNitride

The Taiwan-based company PlayNitride Inc. was founded in 2014. The company's initial know-how was mainly in LEDs but gradually expands its coverage. The company does not only covers PixeLED® Display Technology based on MicroLED, but also UVolution Solution by UV LED, and PlayBeacon Package by iBeacon. In the µLED display area, PlayNitride integrates µLED epitaxy, chip fabrication and mass transfer, which is advantageous compared to companies who only focuses on mass transfer technologies. When the company was founded, there was about 70 people in the team. The number has expanded to more than 100 in 2019.

Mikro Mesa

Mikro Mesa Technology, a company based in Taiwan, was founded by Dr. Li-Yi Chen, the ex- vice executive president of CSOT in 2014.

LUMENS

Lumens, established in 2004 in South Korea, is a company working on new LED technology such as micro-LEDs, ultraviolet LEDs, LED package, LED module lighting finished products, LEDs for back light unit IT products for TVs and monitors, as well as automotive lighting.

LG Display

LG also had efforts in the micro-LED display area

Kyocera Inc.

Kyocera showed a transparent 1.8" µLED display (0.7 mm thick) with 256 X 256 RGB dots and 200 PPI resolution at CEATEC 2019. The active area spans 32.5 X 32.5 mm.

HongKong Beida Jade Bird Display Ltd.

Jade Bird Display (JBD) is a start-up founded in 2015 and headquartered in Hong Kong. Its core technology is the monochromatic micro-displays, enabled by wafer-level mass manufacturable approach of monolithic hybrid integration of µLED arrays on Si ICs.

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

ITRI's display group, the Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL) is working on µLED displays. ITRI/EOSRL has been collaborating with LED driver design company Macroblock, PlayNitride and Mikro Mesa Technology. The mass production will be done by Macroblock, which is expected to happen in 2020.

GLO

Glō established in 2010 in Sweden, is a fabless company based on research performed at Lund University. Glō then moved to Silicon Valley in 2012.