University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has achieved a record modulation bandwidth of 2.75GHz in a gallium nitride (GaN) blue micro-LED (Abdelghany Abouelnagga et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters (21 October 2026); doi: 10.1109/LED.2026.3745737). The work provides a systematic scaling roadmap for the micro-emitters, showing how they can replace conventional electrical copper links to break energy and bandwidth bottlenecks in data centers and next-generation AI computing. As the demands of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing s...

A connected home thrives on the freedom to seamlessly combine devices from different manufacturers that use different standards. LEDVANCE, one of the world’s leading providers of general lighting, is taking the next step towards greater interoperability. All Matter products in the OSRAM SMART+ portfolio have now received the official ‘Works with Home Assistant’ certification. This reinforces LEDVANCE’s approach to smart lighting and control as part of a connected system, giving users the freedom to create lighting and smart-home set...

With 21 product and technology demonstrations at electronica 2026, ams OSRAM shows how light is becoming a key technology for the digital world: The applications on display capture information from their surroundings, enable new forms of interaction and support intelligent systems in mobility, smart devices, healthcare and industry. “Light is increasingly becoming the basis of technology that captures and processes information and makes it usable for digital applications. At electronica, we will show how combining light sources, sensors, ICs and software opens up new poss...

Unilumin and AIT bring transparent LED technology to the heart of the Les Roches Abu Dhabi campus, creating a new focal point without changing the character of the space. In hospitality, the experience of a space matters. For Les Roches, that thinking extends to the environment in which its students learn. Ranked No. 2 worldwide for Hospitality & Leisure Management in the QS World University Rankings 2026, Les Roches prepares students for careers across hospitality, luxury and the wider experience economy. At its Abu Dhabi campus in the UAE, a mu...

AUO transparent Micro LED Display technology made its debut in the PEUGEOT RCZ VISION concept car at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, demonstrating how advanced display technology can open up new possibilities for cockpit design and human-machine interaction. In collaboration with the PEUGEOT Design teams, AUO’s 12.4-inch Transparent Micro LED Display HMI is integrated into the driver display positioned above the Hypersquare® steering control and the floating central display. With its high transparency, exceptional image quality...

Developed with Synaptics, J10a shows how the right technologies and platform come together in practical AR. At Synaptics Tech Day 2026 on October 20, 2026, Jorjin showcased its new J10a Lightweight Industrial AR Glasses, developed on the Synaptics S200 platform. Combining Jorjin's expertise in AR optics, wearable product design, and system integration, J10a is an all-in-one AR solution built around lightweight design, long-term wearing comfort, and professional applications. J10a is designed for a wide range of use cases, including industrial operation...

Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, and Forterra, the leader in autonomous mission systems for military operations in contested environments, today announced that Forterra's Lancer autonomous ground vehicles have completed 1,426 missions and 88 casualty evacuation operations in Ukraine including Ouster Rev7 OS1 digital lidar at the core of their sensor fusion perception stack. Forterra built and delivered 105 Lancers in under six months, and across more than 7,300 miles they have run routes that would otherwise have put a crew inside the ve...

CURE Insurance Arena has partnered with Daktronics (NASDAQ: DAKT), a recognized industry leader in digital display and control system technology, to install a new five-display centerhung system and three entrance displays in Trenton, New Jersey. Installed this summer, the displays support live event presentations inside the arena and connect with guests through welcome messaging, event information and branding as they enter the venue. “Daktronics has been a longstanding partner of ours, and we’re excited to showcase our new centerhung scoreboard to our...

Smart glasses need compact, efficient displays that can produce detailed images without drawing too much power. Laser beam scanning is one approach to meeting these requirements. Rather than using a fixed array of pixels, these displays steer a laser beam across the field of view, building an image point by point. Higher-resolution images can be produced without increasing the size of the optical components by switching colors more rapidly while using a fast-scanning mirror. Current systems, however, face limits in how quickly and efficiently they can control laser color. To prod...

NVIDIA is advancing its next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, with prototypes designed to bring optical engines closer to computing chips. According to Wccftech, the company presented its latest optical integration research at SEMICON West 2026 under the theme “Optical Integration for the Next Generation of AI,” including an optics-on-interposer (OOI) prototype and dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. The OOI design moves optical engines from the organic package substrate directly onto the silicon inter...

WHO: Excelitas®, a leading industrial technology company enabling precision instrumentation, sensing and controls, advanced automation and performance materials that deliver current and next-generation innovations that enrich lives, will display the company’s comprehensive portfolio of UV curing solutions at MD&M Midwest. WHAT: Excelitas UV LED, spot curing, measurement and microwave UV curing technologies are designed to improve productivity, process control and product quality in medical device assembly applications. Visitors to Booth #3109 will hav...

Unveiled at the company's "No Strings Attached" event on 7 October 2026, Dynalite has launched expanded wireless capabilities, allowing a wide range of wireless devices to connect to its platform. The launch enables partners to deliver true hybrid networks of wired and wireless devices.  Signify Dynalite has announced a major expansion of its platform, adding support for the open-standard Zigbee 3.0 wireless protocol, with seamless support to create hybrid networks alongside its existing DALI2 and other space control protocols. The upgrade was unveiled at the...

When we introduced Ray-Ban Meta Audio at Meta Connect 2026, we shared how audio glasses that you can wear all day are the natural evolution of our lineup of AI glasses, the deepest in the industry. We want there to be a pair of AI glasses for everyone, and by the end of this year, we’ll offer more than 100 different options through our partnership with EssilorLuxottica. Today, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, the newest member of that collection, is on sale, starting at $349 USD. Audio has always been the most popular feature on our AI glasses because their open-ear sp...

Intel is expanding its silicon photonics capabilities as demand for high-bandwidth optical interconnects grows across AI and high-performance computing (HPC). According to Wccftech, at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, Intel claimed to be the only high-volume foundry capable of supplying 300mm indium phosphide (InP) silicon photonics at scale to the broader industry. The technology is intended to support next-generation near-package optics (NPO) and co-packaged optics (CPO) for AI and HPC applications. As highlighted by ijiwei, conventio...

Nexilumen, a spin-off from Fudan University, has made new progress in Micro LED optical interconnects, increasing aggregate bandwidth through space-division multiplexing (SDM) and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM). Its 16-channel Micro LED array achieved a data rate of 37 Gbps, while a five-channel WDM solution reached a data-rate density of approximately 201 Gbps/mm². In SDM, Nexilumen uses a 4 × 4 green Micro LED array integrating 16 independently driven pixels. Each pixel delivers an average data rate of approximately 2.3 Gbps, with ...

Edison Innovations, a Dominion Harbor Enterprises (DHE) company, has licensed its portfolio of Potassium Fluorosilicate (PFS/KSF) phosphor technology patents to Shenzhen Jiakun Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (“Jiakun”), a major manufacturer of LED components for mobile phones. The agreement was jointly announced by Mr. Preston Morgan, Senior Vice President of Licensing of Dominion Harbor, and Mr. Chen Tianyu, Chairman of the Board of Jiakun. Under a royalty-bearing arrangement, Jiakun will apply Edison Innovations’ PFS/KSF pa...

Seyond, a global provider of LiDAR technology, will collaborate with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA on a live operational twin demonstration at Smart City Expo World Congress 2026. Presented at the Dell Technologies and NVIDIA booth, Stand 131, the joint exhibition demonstration will highlight the role of real-time spatial intelligence in smarter city and facility operations. The event takes place November 3–5 at Fira Barcelona Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain. Using three wide-field-of-view Robin W sensors and one fully solid-state Hummingbird D1R...

Korea's Raontech announced that it has signed an MoU with SN Display to co-develop perovskite-based next-generation AR/VR displays. The two companies are already conducting preliminary research in which SN Display's perovskite technology is applied to Raontech's microLED microdisplay samples, in order to verify the performance improvements and potential applications of next-generation microdisplays. Raontech CEO Kim Bo-eun (right) and SN Display CEO Tae-Woo Lee at the MoU signing Perovskite materials can achieve high color purity and a w...

Smart Eye, the leading developer of DMS software for the automotive industry, has been selected to supply its DMS technology to a new customer, a Japanese vehicle manufacturer. The nomination was secured through a collaboration with a large global Tier 1 supplier. This marks the first time the OEM sources Smart Eye’s DMS software, selecting the company’s technology for two vehicle models across its lineup, with alcohol impairment detection included as part of the DMS delivery. The new vehicles featuring Smart Eye’s technology are scheduled to...

WHO: Excelitas®, a leading industrial technology company enabling precision instrumentation, sensing and controls, advanced automation and performance materials that deliver current and next-generation innovations that enrich lives, will showcase the company’s comprehensive portfolio of UV curing and Infrared (IR) drying solutions at The ASSEMBLY Show. WHAT: Excelitas’ wide range of UV LED, spot curing, measurement, microwave UV curing and IR drying technologies are designed to improve productivity, process control and product quality in el...

Cellid Inc., a developer of displays and spatial recognition engines for next-generation augmented reality (AR) glasses, announced today that its AR glasses reference design featuring proprietary waveguide technology, along with disassembled components of the HJ1 AI Smart Glasses, are on display at the Computer History Museum's (CHM) new "Extended Reality: Visions of the Future" exhibit in Mountain View, California. Opened October 1, 2026, and running through March 28, 2027, "Extended Reality: Visions of the Future" explores the e...

Daktronics, Inc., a recognized industry leader in digital display and control system technology, today announced manufacturing network optimization designed to reduce structural costs, improve factory utilization and manufacturing flexibility, and focus capital and resources on markets and technologies offering attractive long-term returns. The Company is taking these actions to execute the strategic growth and operational excellence initiatives described at its April 9, 2026 Investor Day and reaffirmed in its subsequent investor communications. Its announcement today also includes t...

GDC Technology Limited (“GDC”), a leading global provider of digital cinema solutions, announced today that it has been selected to supply Brazil’s first native 8K-resolution, acoustically transparent HDR cinema LED screen. Powered by Tricorne Premium LED technology, the new screen will be installed at Nu Cine Copan in São Paulo ahead of the cinema’s grand reopening. The imminent installation shall mark the world’s first acoustically transparent native 8K LED screen specifically designed for a Premium Large Format (P...

Industry initiative brings together hyperscalers and optical ecosystem participants to advance low-latency, cost-efficient optical interconnects for AI scale-up and scale-out networks. Participation in the Open Compute Project (OCP) Short-Reach Micro-Emitter Optics (SRMO) workstream positions ams OSRAM within a leading industry ecosystem shaping optical connectivity standards for next-generation AI infrastructure ams OSRAM’s microLED, microVCSEL and microPhotodiode capabilities provide a differentiated and scalable technology platform fo...

Cellid to Showcase Its “Crux” AR Glasses at Augmented Enterprise Summit 2026 Cellid Inc., a developer of displays and spatial recognition engines for next-generation AR glasses, today announced that it has joined Snapdragon® START (Snapdragon Scalable Turnkey AI-Ready Toolkit), a development support program for personal AI devices designed by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (“Qualcomm Technologies”). As part of the program, Cellid will utilize Qualcomm Technologies' START Platform solution to develop reference d...

Smart glasses are generating considerable excitement as a next-generation information device that could one day replace the smartphone. Working in tandem with AI, they have the potential to bring new value to everyday life, from navigation to real-time translation. Yet, it is still rare to see anyone wearing smart glasses on the street. TDK’s newly developed meta-optic mirror uses nanoscale structures to manipulate light with remarkable flexibility. This innovative device could fundamentally alter our understanding of smart glasses. Key Takeaways Despite their ...

Lumentum Holdings Inc., Astera Labs, Inc., and Corning Incorporated today announced a joint demonstration of PCIe-over-optics connectivity for AI rack-scale architectures at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California. The rack-level demonstration combines an Astera Labs Scorpio Smart Fabric Switch with Lumentum's 1060 nm VCSEL-based optical interconnect platform and Corning multimode fiber connectivity. The demonstration will be available at Astera Labs booth #B34 from October 12-15. The demonstration will showcase fully operational opt...

Vuzix® Corporation, a supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, waveguides and advanced optical components, today announced that it is participating in the 2026 OCP Global Summit, October 12–15 in San Jose, California, and will participate in the PECC Summit, October 20–21 in Sunnyvale, California. Vuzix will host meetings to review its Vuzix Causeway™ waveguide optical interconnect evaluation platform and discuss evaluation opportunities with AI data center, semiconductor, photonics and advanced packaging companies. Vuzix Causeway applies p...

A robotic hand that can sense touch. A sleek oven front panel with no visible controls. A smartwatch whose housing itself becomes an input surface. In all of these applications, the surface takes on a new role. It no longer serves merely as a housing but becomes part of the interaction itself. “Surfaces are expected to offer more and more functions. Optical force sensing makes exactly that possible. The technology detects even minor surface deformations and converts them into actionable information about touch, pressure, and contact. This turns surfaces into active interfac...

Pimax, a leading manufacturer of high-end PC virtual reality headsets, today unveiled Crystal Pro, a wireless PC VR headset built around a streaming technology it calls Native Foveated Streaming, at its "Frontier: Change To Stay The Same" launch event. Pimax also debuted Ringless VR Controllers, the Spation mini-PC, and a refreshed brand identity built around a new signature color, Stratosphere Blue.   Crystal Pro ships with built-in Wi-Fi streaming and a dedicated Wi-Fi 6E adapter. For the GPU's native image, Pimax offers an opt...