ProPoint Semiconductor, a leading provider of image and display processing solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Digital Optical, a professional chip design technology company. The two companies will join forces to create industry-leading Micro LED projection chip solutions, further accelerating the development and commercialization of Micro LED projectors and their display/driver chip products, and leading the new display technology industry to achieve leapfrog development.
In this collaboration, both parties leverage their respective industry standing and complementary resource advantages in the projector field. With the goal of advancing digital projection technology from the DLP/LCD passive projection technology route to the Micro LED self-emissive active projection technology route, they will engage in in-depth technical cooperation, focusing on the design and development of self-emissive projection chips, reshaping the form and quality of projection devices, and making projectors smaller, brighter, with higher resolution and lower cost.
In the future, both parties will focus on advanced projection technology, deeply integrate AI algorithms with display technology, continuously upgrade projection chip solutions, and accelerate the industrialization of next-generation Micro LED projection technology. Simultaneously, they will continue to deepen and expand cooperation, actively explore multi-dimensional cooperation models, and further expand the global consumer large-screen projection market through product innovation, technology research and development, and ecosystem co-construction, thereby driving next-generation chip technology innovation in the broader projection industry.
Sun Lei, Chairman of Digital Light Core, stated, "With the gradual maturation of silicon-based Micro LED chip technology, global digital projection technology will shift from reflective projection represented by DMD to the era of self-emissive projection represented by Micro LED. Currently, Micro LED chip technology has increased brightness several times compared to traditional projection at the same power consumption, while its size is only a fraction of that of traditional projection. With the acceleration of industrialization, the cost of Micro LED projection chips and systems will enter a period of rapid decline. Zhudian Semiconductor has over 20 years of industrialization experience in the digital projection field and is a system solution partner of a global projection leader. This collaboration between Digital Light Core and Zhudian Semiconductor will leverage the expertise of both parties to jointly advance the industrialization process of global Micro LED projection technology."
Dr. Zhou Zhenhong, CEO of Zhudian Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., stated, "We are very honored to become a strategic partner with Digital Optical Chip! In the AI era, Digital Optical Chip's silicon-based microdisplay driver chips can be applied to multiple fields such as AR smart glasses and projectors, and have broad development prospects. As a pioneer and leader in the professional projector market, Zhudian Semiconductor's self-developed projector image processing series chips have been widely used by many well-known projector companies worldwide. This collaboration will combine our respective strengths to expand more technological application scenarios and bring users a higher quality visual experience."
