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six years ago we put out a video on micro LED or microled as I call it an

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emerging display Tech that looked poised to overtake OLED there was even a report

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that Apple invested around $3 billion into micr Leed with an aim of debuting

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it in a new Apple watch and that made some sense as micr Leed displays offer

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crucial advantages over the current state-of-the-art OLED they last much

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longer they resist burnning and they can get much brighter all the while also

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having self-lighting pixel and those Inky dark black levels

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but here we are 6 years later and micr Leed displays are barely anywhere to be

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seen what gives for starters micr Leed

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is very difficult to manufacture not only do you have to place the sub pixels

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onto the display one at a time and there's a lot of them but if one of

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those sub pixels ends up being dead then you have to take it off and put a new

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one in its place but it can be tough to do this without damaging nearby pixels

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and once this happens enough you've suddenly got a dud of a product a

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related issue is just how small the pixels need to be although in a strict

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sense you can build a micr Le display with big pixels Samsung's Almost Famous

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the wall actually had relatively large ones the problem is that the Wafers upon

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which the LEDs are printed are extremely expensive and to make micr Leed cost

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effective you need to be able to make multiple displays from a single wafer

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meaning smaller pixels but making pixels

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that small is also quite challenging as some pixels are more likely to come out

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defective and shrinking them down also makes them much less efficient for

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example a micr Leed sized blue LED is only about 40% efficient but even that

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is nothing compared to Red which is notoriously inefficient we're talking

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around 1% efficient sounds like a lot of

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energy and a lot of heat so how in the world is the industry looking at fixing

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this problem we'll tell you right after we think MSI msi's MPG mt201 Dr monitor

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arm is a pro gaming move when it comes to cleaning up your desk setup it

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supports flat or curv screens up to 35 in and 44 lb with a gas spring design

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for easy adjustments you can move it any way you want for your perfect view

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installation is a breeze with tool-free setup and quick release and it even

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keeps your cables neat plus it adds flare to your setup with over 20 Dynamic

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RGB LED modes check out the MSI MPG mt201 Dr monitor arm in the description

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today it's actually possible to combine Quantum dots which emit specific colors

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of light according to their size with micr Leeds to make them brighter

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although this is tricky because the number of photons coming out of the LEDs

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is often higher than Quantum dots can effectively handle is something that the

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industry is looking for a way to do effectively however despite the fact

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that micr Leed can get brighter than OLED OLED technology partly with the

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help of quantum dots has evolved to the point where bright Ness isn't as much of

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an issue as it used to be which is important for HDR in fact there are now

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OLED TVs that can hit 3,000 nits of brightness which is plenty bright for

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most applications so where exactly does that leave microled it it did look like

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the initial advantage of micr Leed namely better efficiency and enhanced

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brightness would make it good for something like a smartwatch which you'd

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often be looking at in bright sunlight Apple thought the same obviously which

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is why they invested billions into micr Leed production for the Apple watch but

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they canceled these plans in early 2024 due to the difficulties we already

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mentioned as well as the fact that higher-end watch displays are pretty

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darn good in terms of brightness and battery life and guess what the current

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Apple watch uses OLED nanosys a major

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developer of microled Technology likewise sold off their micrb Fab to a

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startup that isn't even going to be using it to make displays instead they're going to use microleds for

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multi-terabit interconnects so basically using it for optical communication which

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is pretty cool in its own right but a very far cry from the original vision of

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microed being the future of TVs monitors and watch displays between OLED's

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development future looking bright and the emergence of competing Technologies

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like qel or qdel essentially Quantum

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dots that emit their own light when you feed them electricity that promise many

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of the benefits of microed without the ridiculous manufacturing problems

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microed might end up only being a thing in applications that we now consider

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Niche for example they might end up powering augmented reality glasses due

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to their High brightness we're talking like 3 million nits brightness it's

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crazy but it's far from a sure thing in the meantime we do at least have this

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cool micr Leed concept laptop but I'm not sure why you want everyone being

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able to see what you're looking at from the other side of the screen so thanks for watching guys if you like this video

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you might want to see our original video on microed you can check that out right

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here so it's somewhere