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Tianma Microelectronics released its interim financial results for the first half of 2026, reporting a net loss of around $105-$110 million USD (before non-recurring items that expand the loss to $133 million).

Tianma says that the rising memory prices which caused a decline in the smartphone market is the main reason for its increased losses. The flexible AMOLED market, according to Tianma, was particularly impacted by the weak demand in the Chinese smartphone market. 

The MicroLED Industry Association reports a strong momentum in 2026, adding 16 new member companies since the beginning of the year alone. This rapid influx underscores the the association's rising influence as a central industry platform - and more interestingly for OLED developers, signals an increased interest in microLED technologies for displays and optical I/O.

The association reports that its new members span a wide range of technologies and capabilities across the MicroLED value chain, representing a diverse cross-section of the MicroLED ecosystem, spanning materials, equipment, device design, manufacturing, and testing.

China-based display driver IC designer Viewtrix Technology is set to IPO at the Hong Kong stock exchange (Main Board), on May 27. The company will trade with the ticker 3310.HK.

Viewtrix (also known as Yunyinggu Technology), plans to offer 52,9 million shares, with an initial price of 20.8 HKD. Viewtrix hopes to raise around 997 million HGD (or $127 million USD) from the IPO.

Tianma is showing its latest OLED display prototypes at SID Displayweek 2026. First up we have a 6.58" AMOLED that adopts Tianma's latest U11 OLED stack, which utilizes a a PSF emitter system (likely green, but Tianma did not specify) and also a new fluorescence emitter system which Tianma calls NFT (New Fluorescent Technology) based on New Fluorescent Blue (NFB). 

Tianma says that the new NFT device structure improves exciton utilization efficiency, and utilizing these new technologies, the U11 reduces overall power consumption by approximately 12% compared to Tianma's previous stack, while doubling lifespan. The optimized RGB spectrum and light-extraction design also enable an ultra-low blue-light ratio while maintaining high efficiency.

A couple of months ago we posted an article, discussing India's goal of becoming a global display producer, speculating on whether the country will bet on LCD, OLED or microLED technology.

Today we hear that the country has approved its first display project, Crystal Matrix's $336 million miniLED/microLED project. 

Samsung Display is showing its latest OLED displays, prototypes and technologies at SID Displayweek 2026.

First up we have Samsung's new Flex Chroma Pixel technology, that combines a PSF OLED emitter platform (this is the first time that Samsung Display shows a PSF OLED prototype), with a polarizer-free OLED architecture (Samsung LEAD) to enable high brightness and a wide color gamut: the new display achieves up to 3,000 nits brightness in HBM mode, while supporting the BT.2020-96 color space. 

The OLED Marketplace is expanding its microLED display catalog, and now offers a new 0.13" VGA (640x480) 2.7 million nits green monochrome microLED microdisplay.

This is the second microLED microdisplay on the OLED Marketplace, following the 0.12" VGA microdisplay (from a different producer) that was added last month.

We are happy to announce that our popular OLED Marketplace is now offering microLED microdisplays. MicroLEDs, while still at an early technology and industry stage, offer extremely high brightness, which is useful for AR applications, and are now entering the market.

The first microLED that is on offer is a 0.12" VGA ultra-high-brightness monochrome display. It is available as either a display panel, or a complete display engine with optics (see image above). 

A report from Korea suggests that Samsung Display has decided to resume its QD Nanorod Diode (QNED) technology development, that it has paused a few years ago, following a technology breakthrough related to the QD nanorod arrangement and placement technology.

Samsung's QNED technology is based on blue emitting nanorods (somewhat similar to microLEDs), coated with QDs for color conversion. Samsung's nanorod and QD deposition are both based on inkjet printing. The company originally hoped to achieve pilot production in 2021, but it faced several technical challenges, and eventually decided to abandon R&D - until this resumed last year.

As the global electronics industry pursues supply chain diversification away from China's overwhelming dominance, India has emerged as a focal point for next-generation manufacturing. There’s much government backing towards the semiconductor industry, but our focus, of course is on the display industry.

Can India establish itself as a significant display manufacturing hub? In this article we look into India’s display research capabilities, the country's chemical industry, supply chain challenges, the geopolitical imperative to reduce Western dependence on Chinese production, and current OLED, LCD and microLED projects and efforts. We conclude by trying to predict where India is header, and whether there is a real chance that in the future will see a meaningful display industry in India.