Touch Taiwan 2018 to gather leading experts to tap new opportunities
Touch Taiwan Display International, jointly organised by Taiwan Display Union Association (TDUA) and Chan Chao International Co., Ltd., will enter its 7th edition as Taiwan’s smart display fair in 2018. This year, Touch Taiwan and OPTO Taiwan will run in tandem on 29-31 August on the fourth floor of Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. Smart Manufacturing & Monitech Taiwan will also be held simultaneously, gathering common forces of Taiwan businesses to make the robust technological prowess and supply chain capabilities of the country’s display, optoelectronics, semiconductor and smart manufacturing sectors more visible to the world and create the most influential international display industry event.
In addition to regular exhibits including displays solutions; flexible and printed electronics products and technologies; commercial displays and digital signage applications; OLED applications, materials, and equipment; LCD panel and touch control manufacturing equipment, materials, parts and components, smart vision and AOI, Touch Taiwan 2018 will see the inauguration of a new thematic exhibit area for “Micro LED/Mini LED Products and Solutions,” which is expected to become a major highlight of the show, making diverse innovative display applications translate into new business opportunities for the display industry. Thematic exhibits will cover all relevant products, solutions, key parts and components, process materials, production equipment (particularly mass transfer equipment), automated optical inspection (AOI) equipment, and driver ICs, thus providing one-stop shopping services for those companies interested in adopting Micro LED/Mini LED displays. This year, leading panel makers such as AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), Innolux Corp. and Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. (CPT) will again be in the focus at Touch Taiwan with their latest product and technology offerings, and many other industry players including Epistar Corp., Lextar Electronics Corp., Macroblock, Inc., Topco Scientific, and NationStar Optoelectronics will attend the show as first-timers to showcase their multiple products and solutions associated with Micro LED/Mini LED, seeking to build connections with global display industry chains and demonstrate the latest technologies and applications.
As this year’s hottest topic, Micro LED will be the focus of discussions at the Micro LED Display Conference 2018. The conference will comprise morning and afternoon sessions, and numerous major domestic and overseas Micro LED technology development teams, including those from AUO, eLux, NationStar Optoelectronics, Lextar Electronics Corp., X-Celeprint, Veeco, Lumiode, San’an Optoelectronics, TOPCON, and Beijing-based Chipone Technology and PlayNitride have been invited to provide the latest market analyses and share advanced technologies, so as to let the audience better understand future industry and market development trends, as well as various advanced technologies.
Caption: Impressions from Touch Taiwan 2017 (photo: OPE journal)