From March 26th to 28th, the Shanghai International Automotive Lighting Exhibition (ALE) was held at the Kunshan Huaqiao International Expo Center. The exhibition covered a total area of over 40,000 square meters, with more than 500 participating brands, attracting participation from well-known domestic and international OEMs, automotive lighting companies, and numerous automotive LED enterprises.
It is understood that LED-related companies such as ams OSRAM, Everlight, Jinko Electronics, Hongli Zhihui, BOE Huacan Optoelectronics, Lite-On Technology, Chipone Technology, Hella, Xingyu Optoelectronics, Nationstar Optoelectronics, Sanan Optoelectronics, LONGi Optoelectronics, Refond Optoelectronics, Shengpu Optoelectronics, Tiandian Optoelectronics, Dominant, Ruituo Electronics, Huahao Weiye, Youming Optoelectronics, and Jinghe Optoelectronics showcased a series of automotive lighting and display products.
Headlights <br /> With the introduction of Micro LED technology, ADB adaptive headlights have seen significant improvements in digital control precision and flexible adjustment of the illumination area. At this exhibition, companies such as ams OSRAM, BOE HC SemiTek, Nationstar Optoelectronics, Ascend Optoelectronics, and LONGi Optoelectronics showcased headlights based on Micro LED light sources, ADB pixel headlights, and ADB modules.
ams OSRAM showcased the EVIYOS 2.0 high-pixel projection headlight, which integrates 25,600 individually controllable Micro LEDs (320 columns x 80 rows) with a pixel pitch of 40 micrometers, an operating temperature range of -40°C to 125°C, and is AEC-Q102 certified, supporting precise dynamic headlight adjustment and image projection functions.
Osram EVIYOS 2.0 High-Pixel Projector Headlight
Hongli Zhihui, in collaboration with JAC Yttrium, has launched a ring-shaped LED daytime running light application solution for its vehicles. This daytime running light features a ring design and is installed at the front of the vehicle. It not only highlights the vehicle's cute style but also provides excellent daytime visibility through 45 0.2W white LED beads, enhancing driving safety.
Hongli Smart Ring LED Daytime Running Light
Lite-On Technology's "Multi-Beam Smart Headlight Solution" utilizes high-precision COB technology to integrate 24 to 102 chips into a single LED, reducing the size of the headlight module while providing high brightness and high color uniformity. The "Adaptive Headlight" LED module achieves high brightness and high contrast through optimized structure and materials, providing zoned lighting effects to avoid glare and improve nighttime driving safety. In addition, Lite-On also showcased 24- and 48-pixel high-brightness LED Matrix smart headlight modules.
Everlight primarily promotes its products for use in headlights (including daytime running lights and front fog lights) and ambient lighting. Headlights are designed with easy integration of optical lenses in mind, and the company has already completed development and is actively promoting the ALFS H series (monocrystalline LED brightness up to 480lm @1,000mA, 1.32mm² LES), ALFS J series (monocrystalline LED brightness up to 450lm @1,000mA, 1.19mm² LES), and ALFS JS series (monocrystalline LED brightness up to 435lm @1,000mA, 1.06mm² LES). WHUDs can also utilize monocrystalline LED products; for example, the ALFS J series incorporates the ideal L9 WHUD design.
Everlight automotive headlight products
BOE Huacan Optoelectronics' Micro LED ADB matrix pixel headlights utilize a high-reflectivity thermoelectric integrated pixel isolation process, significantly improving the product's photoelectric performance and long-term reliability. The application of ultra-thin light-swapping technology effectively enhances pixel contrast. Furthermore, it leverages proprietary high-quality epitaxial and chip integration processing technologies.
This product can stably output light at extreme current densities. Each light-emitting unit contains over 40,000 chips, achieving dynamic control at the tens of thousands of pixels level, providing precise beam control capabilities for matrix headlights. Currently, BOE Huacan is accelerating its progress from the product development stage to mass production.
BOE Huacan Optoelectronics Micro LED ADB Matrix Pixel Headlight
The Micro LED light source module 0.61 is a high-performance product designed specifically for ADB matrix headlights. It features a 14.96 mm × 4.4 mm light-emitting area, a resolution of 374*110, a pixel size of 40 micrometers, a total of 41,140 pixels, and provides a white light brightness of 0.7 lumens. This module is characterized by its dynamic control capability at the tens of thousands of pixels level and its use of proprietary epitaxial growth and chip integration processing technology.
BOE and HC SemiTek Micro LED light source modules 0.61
Hella showcased the Porsche Cayenne SSL | HD high-resolution LED matrix headlights, employing matrix LED technology to achieve a highly miniaturized design. The more miniaturized light source allows each chip to have up to 16,384 LED pixels, significantly reducing overall installation space. The installation space required for the lighting module can be reduced by up to 75%, creating more possibilities for headlight integration into vehicle architecture. This product entered mass production in 2023.
Porsche Cayenne headlights
Hella provided the "Flying Eaves and Tiger's Gaze" headlights for Geely Galaxy E8, which blend the aesthetics of "flying eaves" in ancient Chinese architecture with the biomimetic design of "tiger's gaze." The headlights feature a sharp and dynamic shape, achieving segmented illumination of a 60 square centimeter light-emitting area with fewer LEDs, balancing high brightness, a large luminous area, and low power consumption. Functionally, they provide brighter and more uniform lighting, low energy consumption to extend battery life, an integrated design to simplify installation, and a welcome function.
Geely Galaxy E8 headlights
Xingyu Technology showcased the Hongqi National Gift Headlight, the Guoya Headlight, and the Wenjie M9 Intelligent Headlight.
The Hongqi state gift headlights adopt the design concept of "round sky and square earth," with the headlight shape inspired by the caisson ceiling of the Temple of Heaven. The cool dynamic welcome effect shines like crystal, and is equipped with an 11-pixel dual-beam ADB module, with the turning position sharing the same light-emitting surface as the daytime running lights.
Hongqi State Gift Headlights
The Guoya headlights feature a rounded design with an internal texture that creates a diamond-like sparkle. They employ a self-developed integrated horizontal beam design for both high and low beams and are equipped with a megapixel DLP projection function. A dynamic welcome function is also available.
Guoya headlamp
The Wenjie M9 intelligent headlights use Xingyu's independently developed 84-pixel ADB system, and are synchronized with a million-level DLP module jointly developed with Huawei to achieve precise masking of vehicles in front.
Wenjie M9 Intelligent Headlights
In terms of automotive exterior LED products, Guoxing Optoelectronics is equipped with various specifications of front and rear combination lights and LED light sources, and is actively developing innovative applications, such as micro LED digital automotive lighting modules with tens of thousands of pixels and projection headlights with millions of pixels.
Sanan Optoelectronics showcased its automotive headlight series, including the V-63AB, V-47AB-C, V-37AB, V-45AB, and V-40AB chips, as well as the V-28AB chip for adaptive high beam (ADB).
Sanan Optoelectronics Automotive Headlight Series
LONGi showcased its ADB (Advanced Beam Module) high/low beam headlight modules (ADB module series), high/low beam headlights (high-power ASL and ATL series), and Micro LED pixel automotive headlights (under development). These products focus on intelligent and high-performance lighting technologies, with the ADB module dynamically adjusting the beam pattern according to road conditions to improve driving safety.
Crystal Energy Optoelectronics Product Showcase
For automotive exterior lighting, Refond Optoelectronics showcased its ADB matrix light source/module, second-generation ceramic high-power technology, and new diamond-based ultra-high power density packaging products, providing high-quality and high-reliability LED light source product solutions for automotive headlights, projection lights, and other applications.
Among them, Refond Optoelectronics' automotive-grade ADB module product is a major highlight. Based on its micron-level pixel pitch and precise zone lighting capabilities, it enables accurate beam control across all road conditions; dynamically avoiding glare while providing optimal lighting for the driver and enhancing driving safety. It supports 102, 84, 48, and 24 pixel options, flexibly adapting to various vehicle models and meeting the needs of innovative and personalized vehicle lighting designs.
Refond Optoelectronics automotive-grade ADB module products
The latest generation of automotive-grade ceramic high-power headlight technology is based on ceramic substrate + pre-installed hot-press eutectic packaging process, which achieves long-lasting and stable light color and super heat dissipation performance. It has a product matrix covering the full power of 1-5 cores, achieving perfect domestic substitution and ensuring automotive-grade reliability.
Ruifeng Optoelectronics' second-generation automotive-grade ceramic high-power headlight technology
Of particular note is Refond's debut of a new diamond-based ultra-high power density packaged product, which boasts a stable 60W high brightness per lamp, a luminous efficacy of 6500lm/W, and a compact 5*5mm size that is compatible with mainstream solutions. It addresses the pain points of traditional high-power products, such as large light decay and poor thermal conductivity, and can meet the application scenarios with various high luminous efficacy requirements.
Refond Optoelectronics' new diamond-based ultra-high power density package
Shengpu Optoelectronics has launched an automotive-grade ADB matrix light source, a multi-pixel solution featuring high reliability and micron-level pixel pitch. Its packaging utilizes aluminum nitride ceramic and a glass phosphor film, with a 120° emission pointing angle and AEC-Q102 certification. This light source complies with RoHS and REACH standards and is suitable for applications such as ADB and adaptive high beam.
ADB Matrix Light Source from Shengpu Optoelectronics
Jinko Electronics showcased its 3W high-power LED headlights, which have been deployed in over 1 million units on the market, while its automotive-grade LED products have accumulated over 8 million installations. In addition, Jinko Electronics also demonstrated its 32-pixel integrated matrix headlights and a 3040 32-pixel ADB module with a pixel pitch of 0.1mm.
Jinko Electronics 3040 32-pixel ADB module
TianDian Optoelectronics showcased its automotive headlight solutions, 84-pixel ADB headlight solutions, and low-pixel ADB solutions. The 84-pixel ADB headlight solution, in particular, comprises 84 pixels, enabling more precise light control.
TianDian Optoelectronics' 84-pixel ADB headlamp solution, etc.
In addition, Tiandian Optoelectronics has launched an optical yellow spot elimination solution, which effectively solves the problem of yellow halo in light spots and is suitable for daytime running lights.
Tiandian Optoelectronics Automotive Front LED Series
Jinghe Optoelectronics showcased its independently designed "Huaxin™ No. 1" 40,000-pixel Micro-LED light source chip and "Huaqing® No. 1" digital projection system.
Image source: Jinghe Optoelectronics
Ruituo Electronics showcased the Great Wall-ORA Good Cat headlights, the Wuling Baojun Cloud Sea headlights, and the Leapmotor C11 headlights, all of which meet AEC-Q102 quality certification.
Among them, the ORA Good Cat's headlights use high-reliability EMC gold-plated materials and are also used in models such as the Wenjie M9, Tansuo 06, Chery Oumengda, Nezha S, and Yinhe L7.
Great Wall ORA Good Cat headlights (Image source: Ruituo Electronics)
The Wuling Baojun Yunhai headlights are lighting devices with both low beam and high beam functions, suitable for various models, including the Wuling MINIEV Macaron, Wuling Xingguang S, Wuling Baojun Xiangjing, Wuling Baojun Yunhai, and Leapmotor C10/C11.
Wuling Baojun Cloud Sea headlights (Image source: Ruituo Electronics)
Both the headlights of the Leapmotor C11 and the Envix S9 use Au coating, which has excellent anti-sulfurization performance and high reliability.
Leapmotor C11 headlights (Image source: Ruituo Electronics)
Headlights of the Enjoy S9 (Image source: Ruituo Electronics)
Taillights <br /> In recent years, the trend towards personalized and communicative vehicle lighting has been particularly evident in taillight design, with Mini LED, continuous taillights, and intelligent lighting interaction gradually becoming new industry trends. At this exhibition, companies such as ams Osram and Optoelectronics Technology showcased Mini LED taillights, which enhance visual appeal and energy efficiency thanks to their high brightness, precise light control, and low power consumption.
ams OSRAM's ALIYOS thin-film taillights utilize Mini LED on Foil technology to function as exterior signal lights, including position lights, brake lights, and turn signals. This product integrates LED light sources into the lamp's design, featuring 3D flexible shaping capabilities, customizable styling, and offering high luminous efficacy, high brightness, and high transparency.
Aliyos LED-on-Foil Thin Film Taillights (Osram)
The ams OSRAM full-width taillight uses 40 P1515 LEDs and is an economical 360-degree illuminated taillight for automotive exteriors, with a brightness of 1500 nits, suitable for 360-degree illumination needs.
ams OSRAM P1515 continuous taillight
Lite-On Technology showcased its next-generation flexible intelligent Mini LED taillight series for automobiles, featuring high brightness, high contrast, and a slim design, breaking through traditional automotive lighting functions and enhancing driving safety. Also on display were high-efficiency, highly uniform linear taillights, which reduce the number of LEDs through a special design while maintaining brightness and uniformity, providing various turn signal and taillight application solutions.
Everlight showcased a new type of dual-color LED packaging, such as taillights (red light) and autonomous driving assistance lights (cyan light), using high-brightness-output flip-chip chips paired with phosphor-in-glass sheets to achieve high reliability even under high temperature and high humidity conditions.
For the Mini LED taillight/communication display market, Everlight has launched the CSP0603 white and red LEDs and the CSP0804 RGB LEDs, both of which have passed the automotive AEC-Q102 certification. In addition, the LED1515 can be used in taillights and automotive displays to improve light uniformity.
Chipone Technology's automotive-grade integrated row and column driver chip ICND7301 supports 48-channel constant current output and 1-96 scans. It can be applied to pixelated taillights, ambient lights, and other automotive components, combining lighting and display functions.
Automotive-grade integrated driver chip ICND7301
Hella showcased the Lynk & Co Z20 Starship Streamer Tail Wing Lights and the Lynk & Co Z10 Energy-Boosting Colorful Tail Lights.
Among them, the Lynk & Co Z20's Starship Streamer Rear Wing Lights feature a dynamic welcome function. The 130mm protruding and upturned rear wing shape optimizes the vehicle's aerodynamic performance. It also meets the regulatory requirements for the light distribution of turn signals, brake lights, reversing lights, rear fog lights, and side marker lights.
Lynk & Co Z20 Starship Streamer Taillights
The Lynk & Co Z10's Energetic Colorful Taillight is an RGB LED taillight with full-color light effect animation and can also achieve 256-color personalized display; it can also integrate position, turn, brake, reversing and rear fog light functions.
Lynk & Co Z10 Energy-Saving Colorful Taillights
LONGi Optoelectronics showcased brake lights (2016/2520/2720/2835/3433/3528 series), intelligent interactive pixel taillights, rear turn signals (2016/2520/2720/3433 series), and position lights (2016/2520/2720/3433/3528 series), among others.
TianDian Optoelectronics' automotive rear LED series includes taillights, turn signals, reversing lights, license plate lights, trunk lights, pixel lights, and other products.
Tiandian Optoelectronics Automotive Rear LED Series
Dominant's Tongming Bright LED technology is used in the taillights of the Xiaomi Mi SU7 and the Mi M9. This automotive-grade, ultra-high brightness surface-mount LED features a compact design (package size 2.5x2.0mm) and excellent corrosion resistance, making it suitable for rear combination lamp assemblies and center high-mount brake lights.
2520 LEDs with diverse power ratings and brightness
Huahao Weiye's Peanut Shell LED series features a unique one-piece molded peanut shell lens design, enabling each LED to precisely and evenly illuminate the target area, providing a unique light and shadow effect. This design not only effectively reduces stray light from non-target areas and improves lighting efficiency, but also reduces energy waste and lowers costs by optimizing light source utilization.
Huahaoweiye Peanut Shell LED Series Products
Ruituo Electronics showcased the Chery Arrizo 8's continuous taillight, integrating brake lights and position lights. This product solution uses 0.2W 4043 side-emitting red light, featuring a side-emitting design that aligns with the concept of thinner headlights and has passed AEC-Q102 quality certification. Applicable models include the Chery Arrizo 8, Tiggo 8, and Wuling.
The Chery Arrizo 8's continuous taillights (Image source: Ruituo Electronics)
Ruituo Electronics also showcased the taillights of the SAIC Volkswagen Lavida, LED taillights with brake lights and position lights, using a 3528 0.2W red light product solution, featuring high brightness, low power consumption, long lifespan and low light decay, and meeting AEC-Q102 quality certification.
SAIC Volkswagen Lavida taillights (Image source: Ruituo Electronics)
Ambient lighting, grille lights, and combination lights were among the key products showcased by manufacturers at this exhibition. Companies such as Nationstar Optoelectronics, Lattice Optoelectronics, and Lite-On Technology displayed ambient lighting, while ams OSRAM, Hongli Zhihui, and Shengpu Optoelectronics exhibited grille lights. Additionally, Hongli Zhihui, Shengpu Optoelectronics, Tiandian Optoelectronics, and Dominant Tongming showcased combination lights.
ams OSRAM's RGBi and SYNIOS 2222 grille lights are designed for autonomous driving signal lights and white front grilles. They use compact SYNIOS 2222 white LEDs with a drive current of 130mA. 44 LEDs enable dynamic grille lighting, while 9 smart RGB LEDs enable autonomous driving signal lights at 50mA.
ams Osram RGBi and SYNIOS 2222 grille lights
Hongli Intelligent Technology's Automotive Semiconductor Division showcased its Smart RGB LED. This product directly encapsulates the IC within the LED bracket, resulting in a simpler and more efficient circuit design compared to traditional RGB circuits. It also reduces the extra space required for a separate external IC, making the product thinner and lighter.
The product offers single-point controllable full-color capabilities, meeting the ambient lighting requirements of various customers in the market, including 64, 128, 256, and 1024 colors. It is fully compatible with the needs of various high-end cars and is suitable for ambient lighting in areas such as pedals, center consoles, door armrests, and headliners, creating a warm and comfortable in-car atmosphere.
Hongli Smart RGB LED
Hongli Zhihui's automotive LED products also complement various combination lighting solutions, such as the Avita 07 front combination lights and the Voyah Zhiyin combination taillights. In addition, Hongli Zhihui's subsidiary, Yishan Auto Lighting, showcased a range of intelligent automotive lighting products, including BAIC Group's rear combination lights, Chery Jetour's front continuous light + daytime running light + grille light, and Geely New Energy's illuminated grille light + illuminated front bumper light.
Among them, the Chery Jetour's front through light + daytime running light + grille light (T1P-FL3) adopts a unique through light, daytime running light and grille light design, which not only enhances the appearance and recognition of the vehicle, but also creates a strong sense of sportiness for the body, making Chery models more stylish and sophisticated.
Chery Jetour front continuous light + daytime running light + grille light
In terms of intelligent vehicle lighting, Hongli Zhihui's subsidiary, Foda Signal, showcased its fireworks light solution, finger-activated ambient lighting solution, as well as core vehicle lighting products such as the K005 grille light assembly and dynamic projection lights.
Among them, the fireworks ambient light creates an infinitely returning 3D lighting effect without increasing the size and weight of traditional surface-emitting products. It has been patented and is currently under review.
Foda Signal Fireworks Ambient Light
The Fireworks Crystal Ambient Light is based on the traditional fireworks light, but with the addition of a smoked mask, making it easier to integrate into the overall vehicle interior design when not illuminated. The rounded surface of the fireworks light has been modified to a crystal-cut facet, further highlighting the 3D effect and enhancing the company image. Two versions are available: one with uniform illumination, and the other with a patterned, shimmering effect.
Foda Signal Fireworks Crystal Ambient Light
The K005 grille light connects to the vehicle body via CAN communication, receiving unlock, lock, music and light show, and charging status signals to achieve corresponding animation effects. It features overvoltage, undervoltage, and overtemperature protection, supports UDS diagnostics, upgrades, and OTA animation updates, is compatible with AUTOSAR network management, and has a sleep current of <0.1mA.
Foda Signal K005 Grille Light
Lite-On Technology showcased its "Intelligent Dynamic Full-Color Mixed-Color Ambient Lighting" series, designed to meet the increasing demands of the new energy vehicle market for comfortable seating and infotainment features. This series utilizes high-brightness color control technology, suitable for in-vehicle ambient lighting and intelligent surface light transmission designs, enhancing the personalized ambiance.
At the same time, the "RGBW and Single-Chip System Micro-Package Module" was showcased, which uses a single high-power LED to replace multiple LEDs, reducing the module size, providing diverse colors and high-efficiency white light applications, and supporting four-color dimming.
In line with the trend of intelligent ambient lighting, Everlight launched the 3534 RGB LED, which complies with the ISELED Alliance and has already been adopted by Korean automakers, with an expected adoption by European automakers in the second half of 2025. The 3030 LED ambient lighting has also been successfully adopted by Hyundai, XPeng, and Jike 008 for interior and exterior decoration.
Everlight Ambient Lighting
Xingyu Technology showcased products including the BMW X3 front grille light, the Xingyao L series hidden luminous grille, the instant hand-painted LED-Matrix interactive display light, the low-cost film projection small light, the 3D stereoscopic display rear combination light, and the HD intelligent projection module.
BMW X3 front grille lights
Focusing on automotive ambient lighting applications, Nationstar Optoelectronics offers a full range of light source solutions, from monochrome to RGB (red, green, blue), to meet diverse market demands. The 3433 ambient light showcased at the exhibition utilizes a PLCC packaging structure and RoHS/REACH and halogen-free environmentally friendly materials. It boasts high versatility and cost-effectiveness, and has passed AEC-Q102 automotive-grade certification, meeting stringent requirements.
Guoxing Optoelectronics Ambient Lights
Sanan Optoelectronics showcased chips used in ambient lighting, brake lights, turn signals, side marker lights, reversing lights, license plate lights, reading lights, button lights, daytime running lights, and turn signals.
Sanan Optoelectronics chip products
In terms of automotive interior lighting, LONGi Solar showcased ambient lighting (RGB and RGB-IC series), reading lights/button lights (3528 series), and more. The ambient lighting utilizes EMC packaging, offering high cost-effectiveness and reliability, providing higher brightness and excellent color mixing consistency, supporting global current adjustment for day and night modes, and the IC features temperature diagnostics and calibration functions.
Crystal Energy Optoelectronics Ambient Lights
Shengpu Optoelectronics showcased a range of innovative LED lighting devices, including front combination lights, rear combination lights, interior lights, and ADS sign lights. They also launched anti-fatigue driving LED technology, which, through years of research in the field of human factors lighting, discovered that "rhythm factors" can inhibit the secretion of melatonin in the human body; and for the first time, introduced this type of light source into automotive applications.
Shengpu Optoelectronics Anti-fatigue/ADS Marker Light
In addition, Shengpu Optoelectronics also showcased its second- and third-generation LED beautification lights and solutions suitable for automotive applications. The products utilize the latest packaging structure and are designed for use in vehicle lights to provide illumination for passengers while riding in the car, achieving a beautifying effect. These automotive beautification lights perfectly reproduce the true colors of objects and feature a wide color gamut, high luminous efficacy, and high cost-effectiveness.
Shengpu Optoelectronics Car Eye Protection Light/Beauty Light
Ruifeng Optoelectronics' interactive LED screen features an integrated design from LED beads to modules, allowing it to blend with automotive grille lights, dashboards, taillights, and other scenarios. Through clear pixelated patterns, it achieves diverse and personalized intelligent light language displays and can be linked with in-vehicle systems to provide driving mode reminders.
Ruifeng Optoelectronics Interactive Screen LED Beads
In line with the trend of intelligent driving market, Refond Optoelectronics debuted its innovative autonomous driving ADS Cyan blue-green LED product, which offers two solutions: chip and phosphor. It can be applied to intelligent driving indication scenarios such as headlights, side dynamic indicator lights, taillights, and sensor auxiliary light sources, and has advantages such as safe penetration, accurate recognition, and outstanding energy efficiency.
Refond Optoelectronics' autonomous driving ADS Cyan blue-green LED products
At the exhibition, Refond Optoelectronics also showcased a series of innovative products based on Mini LED technology, including interior ambient lighting, pixelated intelligent taillights, and dynamic car logos.
In addition, Refond Optoelectronics also presented its healthy lighting (full spectrum) solution and intelligent infrared sensing series to meet the automotive industry's demand for high-quality intelligent cockpit lighting environment and intelligent vehicle control.
In terms of modular headlamp solutions, TianDian Optoelectronics presented a modular headlamp solution using a standard headlamp package (1.9*1.5mm). This solution improves the light distribution of the module, increases the optical application efficiency of different light-emitting surfaces, and improves the overall lamp efficiency by 30%. Furthermore, the use of an aluminum substrate reduces costs.
In addition, Tiandian Optoelectronics also brought automotive interior LED solutions, including roof lighting, driver fatigue IR systems, instrument indicator lighting, UV sterilization, backlighting, and ambient lighting products.
Tiandian Optoelectronics Automotive Interior LED Series
The in-car dynamic light projection device, built with Dominant's 0.5W RGB module, has been used in the Mini Cooper model.
Tongming Bright 0.5W RGB Module
The 45° Angle-LED/A-LED features a design that is tilted at a 45° angle to the mounting surface, and its single-reflector structure results in higher light output efficiency. This LED is available in three colors: red (612-627 nm), yellow (583-595 nm), and super red (627-637 nm), and is used in automotive lighting systems such as turn signals, rear combination lights, and high-mounted brake lights.
Unified brightness 45° Angle-LED/A-LED
Dominant's intelligent embedded digital driver uses the world's first fully digital 0.5W RGB LED, featuring ultra-high brightness and suitable for intelligent cockpit ambient lighting systems and dynamic light effect projection devices.
Tongming Intelligent Embedded Digital Driver
In addition, Dominant also presented JKW-TZHY packaged products for use in automotive headlights, fog lights, and daytime running lights, as well as packaged products for use in door panel ambient lighting, footwell ambient lighting, cup holder ambient lighting, and other fields.
Tongmingliang JKW-TZHY packaged products
Huahao Weiye's H-Great-RGB products, through integrated RGB technology, aim to provide a new experience not available with traditional RGB technology. Traditional RGB design is mature, has a short development cycle, and high compatibility, making it suitable for a variety of lighting applications. In contrast, integrated ICRGB improves batch color difference issues through easy-to-control circuitry and D65 calibration, providing more precise color control, making it suitable for ambient lighting applications with high precision requirements.
Huahao Weiye H-Great-RGB Products
Yuming Optoelectronics offers a full range of products covering automotive lighting applications, suitable for both interior (center console, instrument panel, buttons, reading lights, ambient lighting, etc.) and exterior (headlights, side marker lights, turn signals, brake lights, interactive lights, taillights, etc.) lighting.
The company's main products for automotive interiors include the 2214 buttons, 3525 lighting, 3014/4014 center console backlighting, and new Mini backlighting products. For exterior products, the company is promoting the new 2720 product. These products are currently being used in some new models in China.
Yuming Optoelectronics Automotive Interior Products
The ambient light uses an ultra-thin, compact ceramic bracket, which features low thermal resistance and excellent stability. The encapsulated vertical chip ensures effective illumination from a distance without any light spots. A special white light process and meticulous manufacturing procedures guarantee consistent light source performance.
Youming Optoelectronics Ambient Lights
In terms of exterior products, the intelligent driving lights mainly promote the EMC2720 series, while the turn signals, daytime running lights, reversing lights, and brake lights mainly promote the EMC2720 and 3528PLCC models, and the interactive lights mainly promote the C1010 series. Among them, the new in-vehicle interactive lights feature small size, multi-color display, high contrast and ultra-high brightness, and support monochrome and RGB full-color display.
Youming Optoelectronics Vehicle Interactive Lights
Automotive Displays <br /> While headlights were the main focus of this year's ALE exhibition, automotive displays also attracted widespread attention and discussion. BOE and HC SemiTek highlighted their ultra-high brightness glass-based Micro LED HUDs, while Nationstar Optoelectronics and Chipone Technology also showcased Mini LED products. In addition, transparent screens, interactive displays, and HUD technologies also garnered significant attention.
ams OSRAM has provided an optical engine for automotive head-up displays, employing the TI DLP3030-Q1 DMD chipset. This engine boasts high electro-optical efficiency and reliability, and both the light source and DLP technology are automotive-grade AEC-Q102 certified. It offers rich colors, a 15 x 4 degree field of view, a virtual image distance of 10 meters, and a resolution of 864 x 480.
ams Osram automotive head-up display optical engine
BOE Huacan Optoelectronics showcased its ultra-bright glass-based Micro LED HUD, which utilizes BOE Huacan's advanced chip technology to achieve an ultra-high brightness of 150,000 nits and an ultra-high contrast ratio of 3,000,000:1, perfectly solving the problem of display visibility in strong light environments.
With a high pixel density of 431 PPI, its display accuracy meets the stringent requirements of high-end automotive HUDs for image quality, reliability, and environmental adaptability, ensuring accurate information presentation.
BOE and HC SemiTek Ultra-High Brightness Glass-Based Micro LED HUD
BOE's HC SemiTek also showcased its RGB ultra-high-performance automotive interactive screen, which supports R1000 standard splicing and can be flexibly assembled according to the needs of different car models; it achieves a 3,840Hz refresh rate to ensure that dynamic images are free of ghosting and lag; it has an ultra-high brightness of 5,000 nits and an energy-saving design as low as 81W to ensure clear display in any situation; and its ultra-thin design of only 11.6mm greatly improves its integration in automotive exterior applications.
Chipone Technology showcased its automotive-grade LED interactive display driver chips, including the ICND7001/7201/7301.
The automotive-grade Mini LED display driver chips ICND7001 and ICND7201 are the first mass-produced automotive-grade driver chips from Chipone North Automotive Business Unit, and are now being mass-produced and applied in the Avita 07 luxury SUV.
Both chips officially passed the AEC-Q100 authoritative certification in the automotive electronics field in 2023, and can be applied to automotive components such as Mini LED Local Dimming backlighting for smart cockpits, interactive display ambient lighting, interactive logo display on the exterior of the vehicle, and intelligent light language display for through-type taillights.
Automotive-grade LED interactive display driver chips ICND7001 & 7201
The automotive-grade power management chip iML9880 features high efficiency, high load capacity, and high voltage specifications. It is AEC-Q100 Grade2 certified, has 2/4 power modes, and is used in automotive LCD displays, primarily for powering the central control, instrument panel, and passenger screen.
automotive-grade power management chip iML9880
The automotive-grade display touch chip ICNL9971 can be used in in-vehicle LCD displays such as central control screens, instrument panels, and passenger displays. It is AEC-Q100 Grade2 certified and has a power mode of 1/3/5.
Automotive-grade display and touch chip IC NL9971
The automotive-grade signal conversion chip ICNM7801Q is an automotive-grade bridge chip that supports local dimming and on-screen menu adjustment (OSD). It is AEC-Q100 and ASIL-B certified and can be used in automotive LCD display products such as central control screens, instrument panel screens, and passenger-side displays.
Automotive-grade signal conversion chip ICNM7801Q
Nationstar Optoelectronics showcased its transparent screen product, featuring an integrated lamp and driver design and supporting 16-bit high color gamut. This transparent screen technology transforms car windows into smart glass capable of displaying information. It can also be applied to in-vehicle infotainment systems, enabling functions such as high-definition map display and multimedia playback. Furthermore, the transparent screen can display information such as vehicle battery status and remaining range, facilitating vehicle management and maintenance for the driver.
Guoxing Optoelectronics Transparent Screen Products
Nationstar Optoelectronics' automotive interactive display light series is designed to enhance the external interactive experience of vehicles. It meets automotive-grade AEC-Q102 certification standards, boasting high brightness and high contrast, maintaining clear images even under direct sunlight, while also consuming low power. The products support modular production and have undergone module DV testing and manufacturing, making them suitable for front, rear, and side interactive screens.
Guoxing Optoelectronics Automotive Interactive Display Light Series
In the field of smart cockpits, Nationstar Optoelectronics has developed corresponding LED light sources based on different technologies for various application scenarios such as in-vehicle screen backlighting, ambient lighting, and head-up displays, in order to adapt to the innovative and ever-changing customer needs.
Nationstar Optoelectronics Intelligent Cockpit Solution
In the field of automotive interaction, Jinko Electronics launched the Mini 1010 RGB P1.5 full-color interactive screen, an industry first with an integrated ultra-long interactive module, achieving seamless splicing. It features high brightness, high reliability, and low power consumption, providing extremely detailed full-color display and smooth animation effects. They also showcased the 2016 ultra-red light P2.8 interactive screen and the 2016 white light P2.8 interactive screen.
Jinko Electronics Mini 1010 RGB P1.5 Full-Color Interactive Screen
The 15.6” Mini COB automotive display backlight solution supports local dimming with 1590 zones, brightness >2000 nits, contrast ratio >1:1,000,000, and features ultra-high color gamut technology, providing an excellent visual experience for automotive interior applications.
Jinko Electronics' New Mini LED COB Backlight Module for Automotive Display
Jinko Solar showcased two advanced HUD (Head-Up Display) products: AR-HUD and W-HUD. Both products are intelligent vision products integrating LED+ technology, designed to provide high-quality automotive display solutions.
The AR-HUD product features an imaging angle (H*V) of 9° * 3°, an imaging distance of no more than 7.5 meters, and uses Jinko Electronics automotive-grade white LED (3030). It boasts a resolution of no less than 800 * 480 and a brightness of 12,000 nits or more. Through the fusion compensation of optical device deformation and software algorithms, it achieves high-quality imaging. Furthermore, it supports platform-based software drivers, allowing for flexible configuration of the HMI interface and algorithm library.
Jinko Electronics AR-HUD Products
In terms of in-vehicle displays/interactive screens, Sanan Optoelectronics showcased different models of new products, including V-12AB, V-18EB, V-16XB, V-08VB-A, V-08VG-A, and V-8AR1.
Sanan Optoelectronics Vehicle Display/Interactive Screen
In the field of automotive HUD displays, Sanan Optoelectronics mainly promotes LED chip products such as 5763 and 4047.
Sanan Optoelectronics Automotive HUD Products
The 15.6-inch automotive Mini LED COB backlight panel solution exhibited by Refond Optoelectronics adopts KSF phosphor technology, which can achieve an ultra-high color gamut, making the display clearer and richer in color. It also features integrated lamp and driver, ultra-thin and light weight, and high brightness, and meets AEC-Q102 automotive-grade requirements.
Refond Optoelectronics 15.6-inch Automotive Mini LED COB Backlight Panel Solution
Uplight Optoelectronics presents an interactive light source in PLCC packaging, suitable for interactive displays.
Upspection Optoelectronic Interactive Application Light Source
The Huahao Weiye Ai RGB-E38AI is a product that employs an intelligent color compensation algorithm, designed to enhance the display effect of the new era of intelligent interaction. It features a low-current drive capability of 60mA, achieving a brightness of up to 700mcd, and supports D05 color point correction to ensure color accuracy. The product also offers single-channel up to 16-bit PWM dimming control and a 48Hz refresh rate.
Huahao Weiye Ai RGB-E38AI Product
Huahao Weiye also launched a 7-inch Mini backlight module (dual panel) with an overall brightness of ≥3000 nits and uniformity of ≥85%, which is suitable for application scenarios that require high brightness and high uniformity, such as automotive displays.
Huahao Weiye 7-inch Mini Backlight Module
RITEK Electronics showcased its flat, low-particle, high-pixel 2020 P3.0 and 3030 P4.0 ISD interactive screen solutions. These screens enable information exchange between the vehicle and the outside world, such as displaying vehicle status and warning messages, providing new ideas and directions for the intelligent development of future automobiles.
Yuming Optoelectronics introduces new Mini display products, featuring high reliability, wide color gamut, and high brightness.
Yuming Optoelectronics' New Automotive Mini Display
