Mini LED Steals the Spotlight at CES 2024
From January 9 to 12, the 2024 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), often called the “Oscars of Technology,” was held in Las Vegas, USA. The event attracted over 4,000 exhibitors, including nearly 1,000 leading companies from China, and welcomed more than 130,000 attendees.
As the world’s largest and most influential consumer electronics show, CES is considered a key indicator of the tech consumer sector. This year, the Mini LED backlighting display industry showcased strong innovation and growing popularity. Numerous leading companies unveiled their latest Mini LED backlit display products and technologies, primarily focused on televisions, monitors, laptops, and other devices. These products demonstrated not only high brightness, high contrast, and wide color gamut but also significant advancements in thinness, energy efficiency, and longevity, highlighting the maturity and market potential of Mini LED technology.
Mini-LED Showcase
ASUS
At the exhibition, ASUS unveiled new products from its high-end gaming brand, Republic of Gamers (ROG). The ROG Strix SCAR 8 series features the ROG Nebula HDR display, which uses Mini LED technology with over 2,000 local dimming zones and a peak brightness of up to 1,100 nits. This marks ROG’s first flagship gaming laptop with a Nebula HDR display, delivering an unparalleled visual experience for gamers.
TCL
TCL Industrial showcased the world’s largest 115-inch QD-Mini LED high-end TV and mobile smart terminal solutions, including smartphones, tablets, and AR smart glasses. These innovations featured “NXTPAPER 3.0” eye protection technology for mobile devices and the Thunderbird X2 Lite, the world’s first dual-eye full-color AR glasses powered by the Snapdragon AR1 platform. TCL CSOT also introduced the world’s first in-car intelligent cockpit and displayed a variety of products, such as a 14-inch 2.8K Hybrid OLED laptop display and a 57-inch 8K ultra-thin MLED curved gaming monitor.
The 115-inch QD-Mini LED TV integrates over 20,000 local dimming zones and is equipped with an A++ Butterfly Wing Starry Screen to enhance contrast by five times. TCL’s self-developed AiPQ ULTRA picture quality enhancement chip, presented at CES 2024, offers 65,000 levels of light control, enabling precise management of thousands of local dimming zones.
Skyworth
Skyworth presented two flagship Mini LED wallpaper TVs that maintain an ultra-thin, seamless wall-mounted design, blending effortlessly into any living room. With Skyworth’s AI picture quality engine and over 30 picture adjustment technologies, these TVs deliver 99% DCI-P3 cinema-grade color gamut display and high color accuracy (ΔE≤0.98). They support 4K 144Hz high refresh rates, with HSR technology allowing up to 288Hz refresh rates, catering to gaming enthusiasts.
For the American market, Skyworth focused on its Canvas Art Display TV, Clarus S1 Full Sun outdoor TV, and Companion P100 Portable Display, forming a diverse 3C series to offer more choices to users. The company also highlighted new products such as the PS1 Partial Sun and several OLED models.
Hisense
Hisense introduced the “Mansion King Bomb TV,” a new 110-inch UX model, in the high-end Mini LED TV category. Powered by Hisense’s ULED X picture quality platform, the 110UX offers over 40,000 local dimming zones, a peak brightness of 10,000 nits, and an impressive 90% BT.2020 color gamut, providing an exceptional viewing experience in both bright and dark settings.
The 110UX also achieves the lowest reflectivity for screens over 100 inches, providing optimal image quality in real-world settings. Additionally, Hisense achieved new breakthroughs in the Mini LED TV’s design with the industry’s thinnest 4K Mini LED TV, the 75UX, with a thickness of less than 14mm, allowing for a sleek wall-mounted appearance.
KONKA
KONKA Group’s Mini QD-LED 809 series gained significant attention with its new Mini QD-LED and AGLR screens, offering stunning visuals with superior contrast, color gamut, and brightness for both movies and gaming. Other notable products included the Red Dot Award-winning Mini QD-LED A6 Pro series, the new 812 series OLED TVs, and high-quality 813 series TVs.
BOE
BOE showcased a range of advanced display technologies, including oxide, flexible OLED, 8K, Mini LED, and BD Cell, demonstrating its innovative capabilities in the automotive cockpit field. Collaborating with partners like Geely, BOE presented smart cockpit solutions integrating hardware and software.
BOE also introduced a 45-inch 9K oxide Mini LED automotive display screen. Utilizing BOE’s unique low-carbon oxide process and Mini LED technology, it reduces power consumption by 20-30%, achieves ultra-high 9K resolution and 90Hz refresh rate, and provides top-tier image quality with over 6,048 local dimming zones, a million-to-one contrast ratio, and 1,500 nits brightness, offering a stylish design and comfortable viewing angle. Additionally, BOE unveiled a 14.6-inch 2.5K oxide product with high transmittance, high contrast, wide color gamut, narrow bezel, and cost-effectiveness. BOE’s oxide technology now covers the full range of products from small smartphones to 110-inch large TVs, including the first 14.6-inch oxide In-cell car display in GAC Aion’s Hyper GT, pioneering large-scale production of oxide car displays.
Conclusion
Amid this fusion of technology and commerce, it is gratifying to see Chinese brands making a significant impact, achieving notable successes in the Mini-LED backlighting field, and transforming from “followers” to “equals” or even “leaders” in overall technological strength. This undoubtedly demonstrates the robust power and limitless potential of China’s technology to the world and injects new vitality and momentum into the future development of the global consumer electronics industry.
This CES also marked the first overseas appearance for X-Signal. Led by the Zhongguancun Science City Administration Committee in Beijing, X-Signal showcased its latest chip products and applications, particularly its leading achievements in backlight driving technology. Notably, several major international brands displayed their latest products at CES using X-Signal’s backlight driving chip series, reflecting the high recognition of X-Signal in the industry. Previously, X-Signal collaborated with several major manufacturers, empowering various high-end display products with its Mini-LED backlight driving chips, achieving outstanding market performance. Looking ahead, X-Signal will continue to innovate, expand into global markets, and support industry development.
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