May 20, 2021 by Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. Principal Analyst at Touch Display Research Inc.

Although our Society for Information Display (SID) annual conference had to be virtual just as last year, this year’s virtual conference is also very successful.

Figure: SID DisplayWeek 2021 Virtual conference

Photo source: SID 2021

I’ve been attending SID DisplayWeek for about 20 years, here are the press release of 2020, and blog in 2019, and blog in 2018.

In recent several days, I’ve been watching the Keynote from Amazon, Samsung, Adobe, and scan through the exhibitor’s virtual booth, and read technique papers of this year’s SID 2021, here are several hot topics:

1. Micro and mini LED continue to be the hot topic this year. Over 14 companies showed their micro and mini LED displays. Micro LED and Mini LED will flood consumer market in 2021. Nanosys announced it acquired Glo. Micro and mini LED have attracted over 260 enterprises.

In the newly published “Micro and Mini LED Technologies, Supply Chain and Market Forecast 2021-2031 Report, Fourth Edition,” Touch Display Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm, analyzed all the methods to fabricate micro and mini LED displays along with their supply chains.Quantum dot continues to be a hot topic as well.

2. Quantum Dot will Exhibit Rapid Growth in 2021 and 2022. In the newly published “Quantum Dot Technologies and Market Forecast 2021 Report (8th Edition),” Touch Display Research surveyed many quantum dot suppliers, display manufacturers and OEMs, and analyzed and forecasted the quantum dot market with detail of material type and form factor. This report profiles over 130 companies working on quantum dot materials and quantum dot components. Touch Display Research forecasts that Apple will adopt quantum dot within 12 months.

3. Automotive touch, displays and ADAS. Automotive market is going through a transition of its human-vehicle interface. In the recently published “Automotive Touch, Display, ADAS and Touchless HMI 2020 Report, 3rd Edition” Touch Display Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm, analyzes automotive touch screen, display, ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistant System), and touchless human-machine-interaction (HMI) technologies and supply chain. This is the third edition with many updates over the second edition (published in 2018). More than 600 companies working on automotive technologies are profiled in the report.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team

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