With the development of new energy vehicles, the on-board display has attracted attention recently. Mini/Micro LED has also made new progress in the on-board display.

◾  Feifan Car: Feifan R7 officially launched

◾PlayNitride: Micro LED panel samples for vehicles have been sent

◾Innolux: CarUX and Corning expand cooperation in the automotive sector

◾  Shenzhen Tianma: Vehicle display as one of the important application directions

◾ Longteng Optoelectronics: to promote the application of Mini LED vehicle display in the future

Feifan Car: Feifan R7 officially launched

On September 27, SAIC Motor's first electric replacement model, Feifan R7, was officially launched, with a total of four models, and the official retail price starts at 302,500 yuan. Feifan R7 is fully equipped with a standard electric replacement architecture, which separates the business model of electric vehicle, so that consumers can choose the whole vehicle purchase mode or the battery rental mode.

According to the previous experts said Display reports, Feifan R7 carries 43 inches wide true color triplet screen, and the application of Huawei visual enhancement AR-HUD head-up system, field of view Angle up to 13°*5°, 1920*730 high resolution, can be more intuitive Display lane level real scene navigation, real-time ADAS and other information. In addition, it also has the POI information recommendation of Internet celebrities attractions and the giant screen viewing function in the parking environment. The triple screen adopts integrated glass package design, with a diagonal of 1075mm, which can have a clear picture at any Angle.



The three screens include a 15.05-inch AMOLED center screen, a 12.3-inch Mini LED passenger-side screen, and a 10.25-inch Mini LED instrument screen.



Among them, the 10.25-inch instrument screen can be associated with the state of the car lights and doors, display the following distance, self-vehicle status and other information, and support the scene perception display of traffic participants, obstacles, corresponding lane lines and so on. In addition to providing abundant video and audio entertainment functions, the 12.3-inch co-driver screen can also realize one-button synchronization of video information and destination setting, and assist the driver to set the route.

PlayNitride: Micro LED panel samples for vehicles have been sent

Charles Li, chairman and CEO of PlayNitride, said the company has started shipping samples of Micro LED panels to five to six potential customers for trial use.

Charles Li noted that Micro LED panels are particularly suited for automotive displays, and shipments from trial runs have generated revenue on an NRE(non-recurring engineering) basis. As China's auto industry continues to advance, concept car models equipped with Micro LED displays based on potential customers will debut in early 2024.



PlayNitride has been developing Micro LED panels for automobiles since 2019, and leading automakers and their Tier 1 supply chain manufacturers have also been actively launching next-generation automotive displays. PlayNitride has partnered with LCD panel maker AU Optronics to produce 9.38-inch Micro LED panels with 70% transparency for use in automotive dashboards and central information displays, starting small-volume NRE shipments in late 2021.



According to BJ Lee, chairman of Ennostar, PlayNitride's main shareholder, miniature backlit LCD panels will play an important role in the automotive display market, based on previous moves by carmakers. Micro LED chips and panels may still be too expensive to produce, but in the future they can be reduced by 90% when yield increases by improving mass transfer technology, reducing chip size and increasing the area used by epitaxial wafers.



Epistar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ennostar that makes LED and Mini LED chips, has invested NT $610 million (US $19.8 million) to acquire a factory building in northern Taiwan dedicated to the production of microLED epitaxial wafers and chips. Before starting production, Epistar and Unikorn Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ennostar, will both build production capacity for 6-inch Micro LED epitaxial wafers, reaching a level of more than 10,000 wafers per month by 2025.

Innolux: CarUX and Corning expand cooperation in the automotive sector

On Sept. 26, Innolux's CarUX unit, which specializes in automotive displays, announced that it will expand its partnership with Corning Inc., a global leader in materials science, in the automotive sector.



In this cooperation, CarUX will import the Corning ColdForm cold forming technology with its flagship large curved car display, and comprehensively improve the intelligent cabin display design through high texture curved car display. According to CarUX, the cooperation benefits with Corning extend from vehicle glass substrate to protective glass substrate solutions, and form an alliance with tandem supply chain ecosystem to expand industrial comprehensive efficiency.



With the booming development of AI, 5G, Internet of things and self-driving technology, automotive display technology makes autonomous driving technology more mature, giving birth to new application scenarios such as automotive cockpit combined with conference, work, leisure and entertainment, shopping, and pushing up the automotive display to large scale, but also strengthening the importance of automotive display.



Under this development trend, CarUX imported Corning cold bending forming technology, so that the glass cover can be seamlessly fitted to the vehicle display, to provide more innovative and diversified vehicle display solutions; On the other hand, a curved glass cover that protects the car's display helps create a safe driving environment.

Shenzhen Tianma: Vehicle display as one of the important application directions

Recently, deep Tianma accepted institutional research, disclosed the car related content.



Shentianma said that the field of vehicle display has the characteristics of high barriers and high customer stickiness. Customers have high requirements on the reliability and stability of product quality, the long-term continuous and stable supply guarantee of suppliers, and the rapid response and support ability. What determines the long-term competitiveness of vehicle display industry is the comprehensive system capability of vehicle business.



It is reported that Shentianma products have covered thousands of models of the global mainstream brand mass production experience, vehicle customer resources have covered the Chinese, European, American, Japanese, Korean and other major car manufacturers, to achieve the full coverage of international mainstream customers and Chinese independent brands (top 10), including the cooperation with new energy vehicle enterprises is also in rapid progress.

At the same time, in order to face the future technology upgrading trend and market growth space, Shentianma has announced the construction of vehicle display R&D center (Wuhu), the 8.6 generation panel production line (TM19, Xiamen), new display module production line (TM20, Wuhu), full process micro-LED test line (Xiamen) and other important R&D and mass production line projects. Both are based on the company's main display business to become bigger and stronger and the "2+1+N" strategic planning, covering the company's advantage areas such as vehicle and industrial product display, IT display and other companies' incremental development market, as well as the future blue ocean market in the field of Micro LED, taking into account mature technology and long-term technology.



In view of the potential application of Micro LED technology in automotive displays, Shentianma invested 1.1 billion yuan in a joint venture to set up Micro LED Lab in June 2022 to test the entire manufacturing process from large-scale transfer to Micro LED. Micro LED chips are used to assemble Micro LED modules. The joint venture is focused on developing technologies for mass transfer of Micro LED chips from Micro LED epitaxy sheets to TFT backplanes.

Longteng Optoelectronics: to promote the application of Mini LED vehicle display in the future

Recently, Longteng photoelectric institutions to accept research, synchronous disclosure of information about the car and Mini LED.



The development and layout of vehicle business is a process of long-term accumulation. The competition of vehicle display is more about the competition of vehicle product research and development, quality, cost performance, service and operation system efficiency. With the accelerated development of automotive intelligence and new energy vehicles, multi-screen, large-screen, personalized and interconnected applications have become the growth point of the vehicle-mounted display industry, which will also attract more market players to join the new track and accelerate the competition of vehicle-mounted display panels.

Combined with the industry's advanced anti-peeping technology, Longteng Optoelectronics pioneered the launch of the on-board dynamic four-way anti-peeping display panel to facilitate driving and driving safety, which has won wide attention from major car enterprises and Tier1 manufacturers. Meanwhile, it also launched Mini LED on-board screen combined with new display technology to meet customers' demands for more differentiated and customized products. In terms of touch technology, the in-cell embedded touch integrated display technology independently developed by the company has greatly improved the competitiveness of the products In terms of cost and quality assurance.



In terms of Mini LED, Mini LED backlight technology has a good complementary relationship with LCD display products, which can greatly improve the display quality and contrast of the screen, with high stability and reliability. IT has opened a rapid growth mode, and has begun to take shape in the IT and TV markets. In the future, it will also occupy an important position in the field of vehicle and industrial display.



Longteng Optoelectronics has gradually laid out the Mini LED as one of the key technologies, successfully launched the best partition dimming technology Mini LED vehicle display screen, laptop screen and other products, while continuing to promote the Mini LED backplane technology development and display effect optimization, actively study new technology architecture, further optimize the cost.



At present, we have reached in-depth cooperation with the world's famous semiconductor manufacturers, focusing on promoting the mass production process of Mini LED in vehicle and laptop products, and planning the combination of oxide backplane and Micro LED in the future to jointly study the industrialization related technologies of Micro LED. Mini LED in-vehicle displays with dimming technology have the opportunity to be widely used in high-end models of various automakers.