The CES 2025 officially opened in Las Vegas on January 7, 2025.
This year’s event is expected to attract over 3,600 exhibitors, showcasing the latest trends and developments in the technology industry. In the field of display products, CES this year presents a wide array of Mini/Micro LED innovations, spanning televisions, monitors, AR glasses, automotive displays, and beauty mirrors.
I. Micro/Mini LED Televisions and Monitors
Micro/Mini LED televisions and monitors are regular highlights at CES. This year, manufacturers have not only upgraded their technology but also launched numerous high-end, innovative display products, injecting more creativity and energy into the industry.
1. Televisions
Samsung:
Samsung has released a new series of lifestyle televisions, including The Frame and the newly upgraded premium model The Frame Pro. The former features a QLED panel, while the latter is equipped with a Mini LED backlit QLED panel.
Both televisions feature 4K resolution panels, with The Frame Pro also incorporating a new NQ4 Gen3 AI processor, capable of enhancing low-resolution content to 4K quality and optimizing audio effects using AI technology.
Samsung also introduced a transparent Micro LED television with a frameless design, offering nearly glass-like transparency when turned off, enabling it to seamlessly integrate into various environments.
TCL:
TCL showcased the QM6K Mini LED television, which features over 500 dimming zones, a 144Hz refresh rate, and a 288Hz VRR game mode. Its 23-bit bidirectional backlight controller achieves precise control of 65,000 brightness levels, optimizing image quality and reducing the halo effect. The display is equipped with an anti-glare coating to reduce reflections and protect the eyes, along with an Onkyo 2.1 sound system.
Hisense:
Hisense debuted its first consumer-grade Micro LED television—the 136MX. This model boasts a high-density array of over 24.88 million Micro LED chips, a peak brightness of 10,000 nits, a native contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, and 95% BT.2020 color gamut. Its frame rate reaches 120Hz.
Moreover, Hisense introduced a new RGB 3D color control LCD technology and the world’s first 116-inch RGB-Mini LED television. This is currently the largest Mini LED television globally and features Hisense’s latest AI image quality chip, expected to go into mass production in March.
Panasonic:
Panasonic presented the W95B Mini LED television, available in 55, 65, 75, and 85-inch sizes, supporting 4K 144Hz.
2. Monitors
Samsung:
Samsung unveiled a Micro LED stretchable concept screen that produces a 3D effect without glasses. Two examples were demonstrated: one showing the Sphere venue in Las Vegas and the other displaying an animation of a shark approaching the audience, making it appear as though the shark was about to break through the glass.
Hisense:
Hisense also presented a transparent Micro LED display, using micron-level Micro LED chips that achieve over 60% high transparency and offer wide viewing angles.
Innolux:
Innolux showcased the world’s first 106-inch AM-Micro LED free-form splicing display module. This product features a ≤P0.6mm pixel pitch and supports seamless splicing, catering to custom sizes from 12.3 inches to 220 inches.
Additionally, Innolux introduced a new 17.3-inch and 23.8-inch Mini LED outdoor monitor using high-efficiency micro-LED dot matrix technology. These displays offer outdoor sunlight visibility, low power consumption, high brightness, high contrast, and a wide color gamut.
BOE:
BOE showcased its 31.5-inch 4K glass-based active Mini LED monitor, featuring 4,608 Mini LED backlight units and 1,152 high contrast zones for precise light control. This display has a million-level contrast ratio, 1,000 nits brightness, 144Hz refresh rate, and 99% DCI-P3 color gamut.
GIS:
GIS demonstrated a Mini LED touch display module, offering an extra-large display of up to 1.5 meters diagonal. The product uses Mini LED backlighting technology, which delivers higher contrast, brightness, and energy efficiency compared to traditional LCD backlit products.
MSI:
MSI exhibited a new monitor—the MPG 274URDFW E16M—featuring a 27-inch, 1,152-zone Mini LED backlight Fast IPS panel that showcases detailed dark areas when displaying HDR content.
3. Laptops
MECHREVO:
MECHREVO introduced its first laptop with the “Ultra” suffix, equipped with a Mini LED panel.
Acer:
Acer unveiled the Helios 18 AI laptop, featuring a 2560×1600 resolution Mini LED display, 120Hz refresh rate, 1,000 nits brightness, and dual-mode display switching (FHD 240Hz).
II. Micro LED Microdisplay Applications
At CES 2025, exhibitors showcased Micro LED microdisplays for watches and Micro LED AR glasses, along with other innovative products.
Samsung:
Samsung unveiled a new Micro LED screen designed for smartwatches, with a 2.1-inch display, 418 x 540 pixels resolution, 326ppi pixel density, and a peak brightness of 4,000 nits. This screen is expected to be used in the next-generation Galaxy Watch Ultra smartwatches.
RayNeo:
RayNeo held the “Meta, Beyond” launch event, introducing the RayNeo V3 AI camera glasses, priced at ¥1,799. These glasses feature a full-color Micro LED light engine, integrating an excellent camera, fast AI, high-quality audio, and a comfortable wearable design. They also include the Falcon imaging system and a customized large model from Tongyi Qianwen. Additionally, RayNeo displayed the RayNeo X3 Pro, which features the Firefly light engine and RayNeo waveguide for AI+AR glasses, set to launch in Q2 2025.
Vuzix:
Vuzix showcased the latest AR smart glasses design, utilizing 1mm and 0.7mm thick waveguide technology, equipped with Micro LED and LCoS projectors. They also demonstrated new OEM Ultralite smart glasses platforms, including full-color binocular AR glasses models with microphones, speakers, and built-in cameras.
SiTan Tech:
SiTan Tech focused on showcasing products for AR, automotive, and projection applications, including the Micro LED 0.13″ display module, Micro LED 0.2″ display module, Micro LED 0.2″ white light display module, and Micro LED 0.45″ display module.
Goertek:
Goertek introduced lightweight AR reference designs, the Mulan 2 and Wood 2, weighing just 36g and 58g, respectively. The Mulan 2 uses an ultra-thin carbon fiber frame and titanium alloy hinges, featuring a holographic waveguide lens and Micro LED optical module.
Aledia:
Aledia launched its new Micro LED technology, which is designed for AR applications. These Micro LEDs are based on 3D nanowire GaN-on-Si technology, making them thinner, more energy-efficient, and easier to manufacture for mass production. Additionally, Aledia announced a $200 million investment in a Micro LED production line in Grenoble, France, aimed at transforming and accelerating the widespread adoption of next-generation smart glasses for the mass consumer market.
III. Mini/Micro LED in Automotive Displays and Innovative Applications
Samsung:
Samsung has introduced Micro LED transparent windshields, utilizing their previously showcased Micro LED transparent screens. This immersive transparent Micro LED technology transforms a transparent window into a display for visual information or a cinematic experience in the vehicle. Additionally, the technology remains fully transparent, not obstructing the driver’s view, while still delivering high resolution and brightness.
Samsung‘s subsidiary Harman International unveiled its Neo QLED in-vehicle display. Thanks to the use of a Mini LED backlight system with local dimming zones, the Neo QLED panel achieves higher brightness and effectively reduces halo effects around bright objects on the screen, presenting near-perfect black levels. The Quantum Dot technology also brings richer color performance to the screen.
AUO:
AUO showcased its “Virtual Sky Canopy”, which includes a large Micro LED Sky Canopy display that can synchronize with side windows, creating a panoramic, theater-like visual effect. Additionally, the sunroof and side windows support adjustable transparency, offering privacy protection while creating an immersive in-vehicle entertainment experience. This system also provides sunshade functionality.
For standalone instrument cluster displays, AUO presented the “Hidden Smart Driving Interface” for autonomous driving technology. In autonomous mode, the Micro LED display fully expands, serving as a multimedia platform for entertainment, shopping, and meetings. AUO also showcased a “Transforming Center Console Display”, highlighting the stretchability of the Micro LED screens.
BOE:
BOE and BOE Varitronix introduced a head-up display (HUD) smart cockpit, featuring a 44.8-inch PHUD (Panoramic Head-up Display) with advanced oxide technology and a Mini LED backlight system with 2,850 fine subdivisions. This system offers a 9K ultra-high resolution, 7,000 nits peak brightness (10% area), and an extremely high contrast ratio of over one million.
TIANMA:
TIANMA demonstrated a 27-inch seamless spliced Micro LED display, utilizing their unique GOA backplane driving design, proprietary 3D integrated film side wiring technology, and precise, high-efficiency full-laser mass transfer techniques. This display achieves unlimited splicing horizontally and vertically, significantly improving picture quality. Key performance indicators include a pixel pitch of P0.6mm (up to 0.4mm), 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, ultra-low reflection rate (SCE<1.5%), and peak brightness over 1,500 nits.
The TIANMA Smart Interior Combo featuring Micro LED transparent display solutions integrates invisiVue hidden display technology and advanced Mini LED backlighting. This combination offers tactile texture and responsive touch functions while enabling display visibility and invisibility, enhancing the smart experience for car owners.
IV. Micro LED in Beauty and Innovative Applications
Compared to last year, CES 2025 witnessed several companies venturing into new areas for Micro LED, with a variety of Micro LED beauty mirrors and Micro LED smart mirror displays making their debut.
Samsung & Amore Pacific:
Samsung Electronics launched a Micro LED beauty mirror, developed in collaboration with Amore Pacific, a leading South Korean cosmetics brand. This mirror can analyze users’ skin conditions and provide personalized skincare product recommendations. The mirror’s panel delivers an over 80% reflectance rate and a greater than 90% transmittance rate.
Innolux:
At the exhibition, Innolux presented several Micro LED display products, including a 106-inch AM-Micro LED freely spliced display module and a 9.6-inch Micro LED Smart Mirror. The 9.6-inch Micro LED smart mirror uses automotive-grade RGB self-emitting Micro LED technology, featuring high brightness (1,200 nits), high contrast (1,000,000:1), a broad color gamut (NTSC 120%), high reflectance, and energy efficiency.
VueReal:
VueReal introduced new Micro LED design reference kits covering multiple fields, including automotive, AR, consumer electronics, and lighting. These kits help companies bring Micro LED technology to market more quickly and cost-effectively. The first kit includes Micro LED-powered lighting panels, while the second provides both passive matrix and active matrix (LTPS) Micro LED displays in sizes of 3.5 inches or 10 inches, with high transparency (up to 85%). The third kit features Micro LED displays.
V. Conclusion
In summary, Micro LED technology is increasingly popular in consumer TVs, automotive displays, AR glasses, and smartwatches. Leading brands are enhancing the technology’s functionality and optimizing costs to launch new products. With the maturation of Micro LED technology, companies like Samsung are also extending it into the beauty and fashion sectors, indicating the broader commercial adoption and readiness for large-scale production.
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