Aledia and AUO partner on next-gen microLED displays
French microLED firm Aledia, a CEA spin-out, has announced a partnership with Taiwanese display company AUO Corporation to develop a new generation of microLED display technology combining high brightness, low power consumption, and high resolution.
The collaboration will integrate Aledia’s high-voltage microLED (µLED) technology — based on its proprietary 3D nanowire architecture — onto AUO’s advanced display backplane.
The project has been selected as part of the France–Taiwan cooperation funding program, announced in Paris on March 31, 2026, in the presence of representatives from both governments and industry.
The objective is to enable energy-efficient, high-performance displays addressing the growing demand for next-generation display technologies. By combining AUO’s expertise in display engineering and system integration with Aledia’s microLED technology designed for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing, the partnership aims to accelerate the industrialisation of microLED displays and support their adoption across emerging applications.
Beyond display use cases, the collaboration also opens opportunities in optical interconnects for AI data centres and microLED-based solutions for augmented reality devices.
“This marks the beginning of a close and strategic partnership between AUO and Aledia. While we are starting with displays, we are looking to extend our collaboration beyond, opening opportunities in optical interconnects for AI data centres, as well as augmented reality glasses.” said Ness Benamran, CFO of Aledia.
“AUO is aggressively pushing next-generation display technologies based on microLED. On my wrist, I wear the world’s first microLED watch, which is the result of more than one-decade efforts of development. Our ambition is to bring this technology to every consumer, and we expect Aledia’s unique 8-inch silicon-based 3D nanowire technology can help us to scale it to the next level.” said Jennifer Lin, VP of innovation development, AUO.
This follows recent news that Aledia has developed a monolithic RGB epi wafer for next generation displays. The fully functional planar monolithic native RGB on silicon substrate enables Red, Green and Blue emission in a single epi process run., achieved in a single growth cycle.
The technology was shown at Display Week 2026 earlier in May 2026 in Los Angeles.
Pictured above: Jennifer Lin, AUO Corporation VP of innovation development, and Ness Benamran, Aledia CF), announced the partnership in the presence of the Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan, Kung Ming-Hsin
