2023-07-11 19:30:05
The French company is one of the few players to master the manufacture of OLED micro-screens, favored by Apple. It raises 21 million euros.
It is the technology in which Microoled excels that Apple has chosen to equip its Vision Pro, this mask for virtual and augmented reality, presented last June. In the market for OLED micro-screens, this French company has quietly risen to second place in the world, behind the giant Sony.
When they founded the company in 2007, Éric Marcellin-Dibon and Gunther Haas, two former Thomson employees, were almost the only ones to believe in the future of this specific technology initially developed by CEA-Leti. Supported by the Grenoble research institute, the company released its first micro-screens in 2011, for a prestigious client: Panasonic. The Japanese giant was won over by the high resolution, high brightness and low energy consumption of Microoled products.
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