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Tianma Unveils Future Display Roadmap at TIC 2025

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On November 18th, the 2025 Tianma Microelectronics Global Innovation Conference (TIC 2025) was held in Wuhan, under the theme of “Innovation, New Horizons.” UBI Research summarized the key findings and technological trends presented at the event. This year’s TIC was attended by approximately 1,000 participants, including government and academic officials, global industry chain partners, investment institutions, and the media, who discussed the future direction of next-generation display technology. The conference served as a meaningful platform to showcase Tianma’s technological innovation achievements and simultaneously announce its ecological cooperation, technological standards, and sustainable development strategies.

The event featured specialized sessions on five key technology areas strategically strengthened by Tianma: the intelligent cockpit ecosystem, OLED technology, IT display technology, Micro LED, and intelligent sensing. A panoramic exhibition space encompassing smartphones, vehicles, IT, wearables, and professional displays was also unveiled. The “Tiangong Screen” experience zone showcased premium OLED technology, featuring eye protection, high resolution, and high refresh rates. The “Tianxuan Screen” exhibition area showcased advanced vehicle display experiences, showcased in real vehicles, including the Yangwang U9 and U7, ZEEKR 009 Glory Edition and 9X, NIO ES6, and Xpeng X9.

OLED technology for smartphones garnered significant attention at the presentation. Tianma unveiled the world’s first “Full Ambient Light Sensing Display,” which integrates fingerprint recognition, ambient light detection, and panel life monitoring into a single panel. This significantly enhances the user experience by reducing sensor thickness by 99% and improving light detection performance by 40x. Furthermore, the company unveiled “Super Narrow Bezel” technology, which utilizes circuit optimization based on LTPO 3.0 Pro to reduce the bezel by 20% for enhanced immersion, and the “Premium Health Display” solution, which improves blue and green light emission efficiency to reduce power consumption. In the automotive display sector, a number of technologies that best portray the future of cockpits have emerged. The 49.6-inch ultra-wide-angle panoramic screen integrates the instrument panel, side mirrors, rearview mirror, and center console into a single large screen. Its ACRUS-based pixel-level dimming technology delivers a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and low reflectivity. Furthermore, the “IRIS HUD Panoramic Screen,” with its 12,000nit brightness, projects driving information clearly onto the windshield, garnering attention as a HUD solution that simultaneously addresses power and thickness issues. Adding to this a 13-inch central display with an L-shaped curved panel and a dynamic roll-up screen that can expand or hide a 17-inch screen in just six seconds, the possibilities for in-vehicle UX have been significantly expanded.

Tianma IRIS HUD Panoramic Automotive Display System (Source: Tianma)

Tianma IRIS HUD Panoramic Automotive Display System (Source: Tianma)

Tianma 49.6-inch Curved ACRUS Panoramic Screen for Automotive (Source: Tianma)

Tianma 49.6-inch Curved ACRUS Panoramic Screen for Automotive (Source: Tianma)

IT display technology targets next-generation PCs and esports demand. “LEAF 2.0” technology, which significantly reduces logic power consumption even at 1Hz through oxide-based ultra-low frequency operation, addresses the power efficiency demands of the AIPC era. The world’s first esports panel with a 610Hz refresh rate aims to optimize the screen for professional gaming environments with ultra-fast response and minimal afterimages.

Finally, in the Micro LED field, Tianma unveiled its flagship products, symbolizing the company’s technological prowess. The first exhibit to catch the eye was the 19-inch IRIS HUD Micro-LED, a HUD solution that delivers over 2,000 nits of brightness to the driver’s field of vision through precision tiling and a high-brightness design. Featuring a compact structure and non-reflective design, it suggests the potential for lighter and smaller HUDs for luxury vehicles.

Furthermore, the 19-inch transparent Micro-LED tiling panel demonstrates next-generation HMI technology, combining 60% transparency with 5,000nits of brightness to display information while maintaining a clear view from inside the vehicle. The 7.05-inch ultra-slim bezel transparent Micro-LED, displayed alongside the display, boasts a bezel of less than 0.1mm, emphasizing the design perfection of the transparent display.

At the center of the exhibition was a 108-inch 4K Seamless Tiling Micro-LED. This all-laser transmission-based display features 1,500nits peak brightness, a 0mm bezel, and a sophisticated LTPS-based structure. The seamless implementation ensured that the module boundaries were virtually invisible during actual playback.

This exhibition demonstrated the rapid expansion of Micro-LED technology and its potential for implementation in diverse applications, including automotive, IT, and large commercial screens. Tianma showcased its extensive portfolio, encompassing HUDs, transparent panels, and large tiling screens, clearly demonstrating its Micro-LED R&D strategy and signaling its potential to shape a new competitive landscape in the premium display market.

Changwook Han, Executive Vice President/Analyst at UBI Research (cwhan@ubiresearch.com)

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TIC 2025: Tianma Unveils Dual Micro LED Roadmap Targeting AR, Automotive, and IT

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At the 2025 Tianma Microelectronics Global Innovation Conference (TIC 2025) held on November 18, Tianma garnered attention from the industry by unveiling its Micro LED technology roadmap and future strategy. The presentation began by emphasizing that Micro LED has passed the technology verification stage and entered a full-fledged growth phase. Tianma explained that Micro LED’s unique values ​​of high resolution, high brightness, and low power consumption are precisely aligned with the demands of major application fields such as AR and MR, automotive, IT, and TV, and are emerging as a key axis driving industrial change. In particular, Tianma clearly presented the future product development direction by presenting a two-track roadmap: completing a mass production platform based on high-speed laser transfer by 2025, and then simultaneously expanding ultra-high PPI AR Micro LED and mid- to large-sized IT and automotive panels.

Tianma Micro-LED Industrialization Layout and Prospects Roadmap (Source: Tianma)

Tianma’s Micro-LED Industrialization Layout and Prospects (Source: Tianma)

Tianma highlighted its rapid internalization of the entire value chain, encompassing chip, transfer, panel, and calibration technologies, as a key strength. According to the announcement, Micro LED chip sizes have been reduced from 20μm to less than 5μm, and efficiency has improved to 65-90%. At the module level, Demura-based ultra-high uniformity correction technology has secured screen uniformity of over 99%. A high-speed, large-area transfer platform has been established, laying the technological foundation for precise placement of millions of chips. Furthermore, chip-on-glass-based pixel repair technology supports its yield maximization strategy.

In terms of manufacturing structure, Tianma announced a hybrid roadmap that utilizes three manufacturing strategies: RGB precision transfer, bump structures, and QD color conversion, tailored to each application. RGB is optimized for large-scale, high-resolution panels for IT applications, while the blue single-chip-based QD color conversion method, with its high yield and simplified process, is emerging as a key solution for ultra-high PPI displays for AR and MR. Tianma predicts that ultra-high-resolution Micro LEDs focused on AR and MR, and mid- to large-sized panels focused on automotive and IT, will become the two pillars of the future Micro LED market, and announced that it will continue to strengthen its “dual strategy” to secure competitiveness in both markets.

The Micro LED products on display at TIC 2025 were a symbolic demonstration of Tianma’s technological maturity. The 108-inch 4K “Borderless Giant Screen” in particular attracted great attention. This screen, realized through a combination of Full Laser Mass Transfer (FLM) and Seamless Splicing technologies, has virtually invisible seams of less than 20μm. With a maximum brightness of 1,500 nits, a reflectivity of less than 2%, and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, it demonstrated that Micro LED technology can achieve OLED-level picture quality while also offering higher brightness and durability than LCD. It is evaluated as a representative example that shows the potential of Micro LED in various fields such as large commercial spaces, high-end home cinema, and professional video environments.

Tianma 108-inch 4K Micro-LED Borderless Giant Screen (Source: Tianma)

Tianma’s 108-inch 4K Micro-LED Borderless Giant Screen displayed at TIC 2025 (Source: Tianma)

UBI Research Vice President Changwook Han evaluated this conference, saying, “What is particularly impressive is that Tianma is rapidly internalizing the entire Micro LED process technology.” He analyzed that in the Micro LED market, which is being reorganized into two axes of ultra-high-resolution AR/MR and medium- to large-sized IT/vehicle displays, Tianma is establishing a technological foundation that can compete in both areas. He also said, “The 108-inch borderless screen on display this time is a symbolic result that shows that Tianma has moved beyond the R&D stage and entered the actual product implementation stage,” and predicted that the completion of the entire process, yield, and large-area technology to secure future mass production competitiveness will be a significant inflection point in the global Micro LED market.

Changwook Han, Executive Vice President/Analyst at UBI Research (cwhan@ubiresearch.com)

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