MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of semiconductor products, today announced it will showcase its latest optical and high speed connectivity technologies at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2026, taking place September 21 - 23, 2026, in Málaga, Spain. Visitors to Stand 1055 can learn about MACOM’s broad portfolio of solutions designed to support the growing bandwidth, performance and power efficiency demands of AI infrastructure, cloud data centers, telecommunications networks and eme...

Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, today announced surging customer momentum for its Rev8 OS1 Max native color digital lidar, with payload integrators and drone OEMs across the aerial mapping market selecting the sensor for utility corridor inspection, infrastructure management, and defense applications. Aerial mapping teams have long worked around the same constraint: fly low enough to resolve a power line and a single mission covers a fraction of the corridor; fly high enough to cover ground and the thin objects that matter most start to di...

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, waveguides and augmented reality technologies, today announced that it has begun shipping its first Causeway™ waveguide bridge samples to select prospective customers and ecosystem partners, and is making a broader optical interconnect evaluation kit available for AI data center optical interconnect applications, including co-packaged optics (CPO) architectures. Industry forecasts point to significant growth in this emerging market. TrendForce forecasts that the combined co-packaged optics and near-...

What Is LED Display Optimization? LED display optimization improves image quality, energy efficiency, manufacturing simplicity, reliability, maintenance requirements and total cost of ownership through advances in LED technology and display architecture. Cree LED’s OptiLamp™ intelligent LEDs enable display manufacturers to build lighter, more efficient, higher-performance displays while reducing system complexity and lifecycle costs. Key Takeaways Efficient OptiLamp LEDs reduce power consumption. Intelligent LED architectures simp...

Founded in 1997, Vuzix brings nearly 30 years of optical design expertise to the industry. Vuzix strategically leverages its U.S. manufacturing footprint, maintaining both R&D and manufacturing of waveguides in Rochester, New York. A pivotal turning point arrived in 2010 through a collaboration with Nokia scientists and engineers, which granted Vuzix early access to foundational waveguide patents, equipment, and processes well before the era of HoloLens. Backed by over 500 patents and an ISO 9001-certified facility, Vuzix continues to strengthen its position as a glob...

ams OSRAM today unveiled its imaging-to-display sensing solution for smartphones at the 2026 China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE 2026). The solution integrates ams OSRAM's latest-generation sensing technologies to help smartphones achieve greater accuracy, stability, and precision in ambient light detection, image capture, and spatial sensing. By connecting the sensing technologies across the imaging-to-display pipeline, it helps mobile devices deliver a visual experience that is true to life. This newly launched solution integrates an ams OSR...

As AI and wearables become increasingly integrated, coupled with an aggressive push from market leaders, global market intelligence firm TrendForce projects that global AR glasses shipments will hit a milestone of millions of units in 2026. As high-cost components at the system level, optical waveguides play a pivotal role in driving large-scale production and mass adoption across the AR glasses industry, with cost reductions and performance upgrades serving as primary growth engines. In a recent interview, TrendForce had the privilege to gain insights from Li Xiayun, Chai...

According to TrendForce’s 2026 Micro LED Display and Non-Display Application Market Analysis, due to sluggish consumer market demand and the AI spending crowding-out effect, the Micro LED industry has seen a broad-based shift in business resource allocation toward commercially viable applications. For display applications, barriers to market adoption can be minimized by modular designs and supply chain integration, while future deployment pivots toward interactive and high-value-added sectors. For non-display applications, Micro LED technology is entering the C...

As NVIDIA, Broadcom and TSMC rally behind co-packaged optics (CPO), Huawei is charting a different course with near-packaged optics (NPO). According to Nikkei and the South China Morning Post, the Chinese tech giant unveiled its own NPO standard and debuted a 7.2Tbps solution on Thursday at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE). South China Morning Post, citing Man Jiangwei, director of the company’s advanced optoelectronics laboratory, reports that Huawei’s new module features 36 channels running at 200Gbps ...

Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, and Flyability, a pioneer in confined-space inspection and mapping, will showcase their long-standing technology collaboration at INTERGEO 2026, taking place September 15–17 in Munich, Germany. Flyability will join Ouster at Booth B5I018 in Hall B5, where the companies will demonstrate how the combination of Flyability’s collision-tolerant Elios 3 drone and Ouster’s digital lidar enables industrial teams to capture accurate 3D data in environments that are difficult to access wi...

International automotive supplier FORVIA HELLA and the Finnish start-up Distance Technologies have entered into a strategic partnership, supported by an investment through HELLA Ventures. This joint development will bring a mirrorless 3D AR Head-Up Display (HUD) for automotive applications. As a market innovation, it fundamentally extends the display principle of conventional Head-Up Displays: instead of merely projecting simple two-dimensional graphics into the driver’s field of view, the entire view is now augmented with three-dimensional visuali...

Sports venues require LED display solutions that can deliver consistent brightness, image quality and reliability under demanding environmental conditions. Outdoor stadiums may face intense sunlight, heavy rainfall and high humidity, while indoor swimming pools can expose electronic equipment to moisture and chlorine. Recently, LEDMAN delivered two sports venue LED display projects in Southeast Asia and Australia: Sultan Ibrahim Stadium in Malaysia and an indoor swimming pool in Australia. The two projects demonstrate how LEDMAN adapts its LED display tech...

NTT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (NTT-AT; headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Tadashi Ito) and EV Group (EVG; headquarters: Austria), a leading provider of innovative process solutions and expertise serving leading-edge and future semiconductor designs and chip integration schemes, have jointly verified the compatibility of NTT-AT’s UV-curable high-refractive-index resins with EVG’s proprietary SmartNIL® process technology and evaluated the feasibility of manufacturing waveguides for AR op...

Signify, the world leader in lighting, announces that Kwekerij Bolleboom in Bleiswijk and Kwekerij Bazuin in Pijnacker in the Netherlands are investing in Philips GreenPower LED toplighting force elite and Philips GrowWise control for their cucumber cultivation. Both family businesses choose LED lighting to spread production more evenly throughout the year, plan labor requirements more effectively, and deliver to the trade with greater certainty. The projects are being carried out with specialized Horti LED partners: Stolze at Bolleboom and Hortipar at Bazuin. ...

Marelli, a global automotive supplier, and Microchip Technology, a broadline supplier of semiconductors committed to making innovative design easier through total system solutions, today announced a new solution that enables graphics and video content generated by a vehicle's central computer to be streamed directly to automotive displays using ASA Motion Link (ASA-ML), an open standard for automotive video connectivity. The demonstrator of this solution helps vehicle makers simplify display architectures, optimize system costs and increase sourcing flexibility while sup...

Daktronics, Inc., a recognized industry leader in digital display and control system technology, today reported results for its fiscal 2027 first quarter, ended August 1, 2026. The first quarter of fiscal 2027 reflects a 13-week reporting period, compared with a 14-week reporting period in the prior-year first quarter. Fiscal 2027 Q1 Financial Highlights: Sales of $234.6 million, 7.1% growth from $219.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, despite one less week Operating income of $24.9 million, 7.2% growth from $23.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2026,...

Cree LED®, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and Promier Products, Inc. today announced that they have reached a mutually beneficial settlement resolving a patent infringement dispute involving Cree LED’s patents related to LED components used in portable lighting products. As part of the settlement, Cree LED has granted Promier Products a limited license to certain Cree LED patents covering LED components. Cree LED has established itself as a trusted brand in portable lighting applications, known for consistently high performanc...

at Automechanika Frankfurt 2026 from September 8 to 12, 2026 ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS) is presenting an exciting look at its automotive‑aftermarket portfolio under the ‘Be Road Ready’ slogan. Alongside new road‑approved¹ LED retrofit solutions – including the NIGHT BREAKER LED SPEED H1 and the NIGHT BREAKER LED VINTAGE H1 – and innovative workshop and breakdown accessories, the OSRAM BETTER SIGHT WIPERblades are this year’s standout product. The trade‑fair presence conclude...

Nichia, a global leader in LED and laser diode technology, will present a broad portfolio of automotive technologies at SIA VISION 2026, taking place on September 23–24 at Les Pyramides in Le Port-Marly, France. On Stand 36, Nichia plans to demonstrate light-source technologies for adaptive headlighting, road projection and in-vehicle projection systems. Its solutions give engineers and designers at OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers greater control over light to improve visibility, communication, entertainment and brand experiences. Nichia will present its wi...

Ningbo Qiushui Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. ("QSSEMI") today released the world's first mass-producible 8-inch red Micro-LED chip. Built on the company's industry-first damage-free Micro-LED technology, the product completes the first full process integration of hybrid bonding on an 8-inch quaternary AlInGaP red material system, delivering 640×480 red display in a volume of just 0.15 cubic centimeters. The breakthrough is seen as a landmark in AR glasses' transition from today's mainstream monochrome-green approach to full col...

At IAA Transportation 2026, international automotive supplier FORVIA HELLA is presenting an adaptive interior lighting concept that combines comfort, visual communication and safety-related functions in a seamlessly integrated surface. Intelligent RGB LED arrays enable dynamic lighting scenarios and communication functions within the driver’s cab. This expertise is already being applied in customer development projects, with a major European commercial vehicle manufacturer currently using FORVIA HELLA’s RGB module technology in the develo...

During its Investor Open Day on August 28, TCL Technology detailed its strategic layout in optical communications for the first time. TCL’s management noted that the optical communications industry is on the verge of major development opportunities. The company expects to execute its roadmap following the sequence of “optical chips → optical components → optical modules.” In the optical chip segment, TCL stated that it has already established a foundational capability. Through the acquisition of the Fuzhou Huazhao, TCL secured techn...

From September 8th to 9th, the DVN Shanghai Lighting Workshop will be held in Shanghai, China. Nichia will give a presentation in the Automotive forum titled “Advanced Light Sources: Enabling Personalized Experiences in the Intelligent‑Vehicle Era,” focused on the future of next-generation intelligent automotive lighting, enabling personalized headlight beam distribution, brightness, and color characteristics. Topics will also include µPLS technology, RGB laser diodes, and high-brightness LEDs. DVN (Driving Vision News) is a commu...

Signify, the world leader in lighting, announces a wide range of Philips Hue innovations designed to make connected lighting more intelligent, immersive and beautifully integrated into the home. Shaped by customer feedback, the latest software, entertainment, design and wider product innovations give consumers new ways to personalise their homes. These include advanced automations created through natural-language instructions, new ways to synchronise lighting with television content, compatibility with Nanoleaf Shapes, and a collection of luminaires designed for contemporary interi...

The international automotive supplier FORVIA HELLA is further expanding its portfolio of LED work lamps of the S-series. The current product generation scores with significantly increased light output, additional variants and extended design options. These are aimed specifically at manufacturers of agricultural machinery, construction machinery, forklifts, trucks and trailers as well as municipal vehicles. Since its launch in 2021, the S-series has followed the "simple, steady and streamlined" approach, combining robust technology with an attractive price-perfor...

Excelitas®, the leading provider of advanced, life-enriching technologies that make a difference, serving global market leaders in the MedTech, Life Sciences, Advanced Industrial, next-generation Semiconductor and Avionics end markets, today announced the launch of its enhanced OmniCure® AC Series UV LED curing platform, delivering higher irradiance, improved uniformity, advanced process control, and expanded wavelength options to support a broad range of industrial curing applications. The enhanced AC Series includes the AC8⁺, AC9⁺, and AC8⁺HD syste...

As automakers pursue greater cost efficiency and more integrated automotive lighting designs, conventional optical solutions are increasingly reaching their limits. Mainstream automotive LED light sources often suffer from poor beam uniformity, glare, and low light utilization. Conventional solutions also rely on complex secondary optical modules, resulting in more components, greater optical loss, larger system size, higher power consumption, and higher overall costs. As a professional LED light source solution provider, Refond leverages more than 20 years of expertise in ba...

Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, announced a strategic partnership with GeoCue, a premier provider of drone mapping payloads and software, to integrate Ouster’s native color Rev8 OS1 Max digital lidar into GeoCue’s TrueView product line. The collaboration pairs GeoCue's TrueView 1 payloads and LP360 software with Ouster's digital lidar to deliver survey-grade data to the utility and infrastructure industries. GeoCue is expanding its TrueView lineup to include options featuring the Ouster Rev8 OS1 Max,...

Signify, the world leader in lighting, announces that Qaztomat, one of the largest high-tech greenhouse operations in Central Asia, has selected Philips Horticulture LED Solutions as the lighting supplier for a new 10-hectare greenhouse expansion in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan. The project will increase Qaztomat’s total greenhouse area from 30 to 40 hectares, further strengthening its position as a leading producer of fresh tomatoes in the region. Located in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan, Qaztomat operates a state-of-the-art greenhouse complex that produces more than 1...

Driven by the rapid growth of AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and automotive electronics, chips are evolving toward high performance, chiplet designs, and heterogeneous integration architectures, fueling continuous demand for advanced packaging. According to Counterpoint Research, the global market size for Fan-Out Panel-Level Packaging (FOPLP) and glass substrates packaging is expected to grow from approximately US$650 million in 2024 to over US$8 billion in 2030. Capitalizing on its expertise in large-size panel manufacturing, precision processing, and mass pr...