Mini LED has high brightness, long life, does not burn screens, and is not expensive.

Overall, it is the optimal solution and is also the most important development direction in the next ten years.

BOE not only requires huge investment in 8K layout, but also because the initial cost is too high, it is difficult to commercialize.

Even if 8K commercialization is achieved in five years, it will only be a small-scale commercialization and is destined to be a niche product.

The fatal shortcomings behind it are not only the lack of 8K resources, but also the support of broadband.

Even gigabit broadband is affected by many factors, and it is difficult to smoothly play 8K live broadcasts.

It can be said that if you want to watch the live broadcast of Real 8 smoothly, you need 10 Gigabit broadband to be popularized.

At present, 500 Gigabit broadband has not been popularized, and even if gigabits are not popular in 10 years, let alone 10 Gigabit broadband.

Under this series of factors, the prospects for 8K are very dim. On the contrary, Mini LED has made great progress.

If BOE makes arrangements in advance and makes them out in advance, it can completely avoid many detours.

To put it bluntly, at present, Mini LED is much more reliable and useful than 8K.

As long as Mini LED is created, it can be commercialized as soon as possible, and it greatly reduces costs and is accepted by manufacturers and users, thus achieving huge profits.

Even if 8K is created, it is difficult to commercialize, and it still requires a lot of time and money to continuously optimize and explore and reduce costs.

Then, it will take 15 years or even 20 years to become popular in 10,000 Gigabits before the spring of 8K will be ushered in.

After listening to Wang Yi's words, Wang Sheng finally understood the logic here:

"Chairman, I understand that BOE's R&D funds are still very tight at the moment, and it must be invested in high-quality projects that can produce output and return as soon as possible. For example, Mini LED is this type. As long as there is output, it can be quickly commercialized and quickly recover the capital and make profits."

"The research and development of 8K still requires an extremely long return period, and it may not be profitable in the next five years."

Wang Yi smiled: "8K's profit is not a matter of five years, but fifteen years!"

At least ten years later, 8K is still a concept or a flashy niche product.

But Mini LED is different. As long as there is output, it can be used directly and profitable!

Nothing else, Mini LED is essentially LCD, but it is a technical upgrade of LCD.

Compared with high-end OLED screens, the LCD screen has low contrast, low brightness, grayish black purity, and only 160 degrees of viewing angle, which is whiter on the side...

It can be said that there are too many shortcomings and cannot compete with OLED at all, and the quality is too far inferior.

The only advantage is that LCDs are cheaper, much cheaper than OLEDs.

But even if LCDs are cheap, their quality is so poor and their display effect is so poor. LCDs are really useless and are therefore used in low-end equipment.

Nowadays, since OLED is not mature enough, flagship mobile phones and TVs worth thousands of yuan will also use LCDs.

But a few years later, OLED went further, and LCD became a mobile phone, a TV, a TV, a tablet, and an office monitor.

It can be said that although LCD is cheap, its quality is too poor and its display effect is too poor.

OLED has good quality and good display effect, but it is costly, expensive, and easy to burn the screen.

If both are not perfect, what should I do?

So there is Mini LED.

Mini LED is also a type of LCD, but it is a comprehensive upgrade.

On the basis of LCD, backlight module innovation is carried out, backlight partition control is realized, local dimming is realized, and a series of problems such as gray dark parts of LCD, low contrast and low brightness are solved. It also achieves a qualitative leap, infinitely close to OLED!

For example, the contrast ratio of Mini LED is upgraded from 1,000:1 to 10,000:1 of LCD to 1,000,000:1, close to OLED!

As for brightness, it is even more amazing. It has been upgraded from 300-600 nits of LCD to 1000-2000 nits!

It exceeds OLED's 600-1000 nits and is not easy to attenuate!

Through partition light control, even the black purity is no longer gray, but it is close to the pure black of OLED!

Although the response speed and visual angle are still not as good as OLED, it has greatly improved compared to LCD, narrowing the gap with OLED.

More importantly, Mini LED costs only 1.5-2 times that of LCD, which is very cheap and cheaper than OLED.

It can be said that Mini LED has the low cost advantage of LCD and the high quality of OLED. It has excellent display effect and has its own advantages in many aspects!

The results can be imagined. The display effect and OLED have their own strengths and weaknesses, and they are so much cheaper, so the future is naturally limitless.

Especially before OLED solves the three fatal problems of burning screens, easy attenuation and high cost, it is no match for Mini LED at all.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Yicai asked BOE to invest huge investment to develop Mini LED as soon as possible.

"Don't worry, the future of Mini LED will not disappoint you. Once done, you can achieve the effect close to OLED at the cost of approaching LCD!"

"Close to the cost of LCD, achieve the effect of close to OLED!"

Wang Sheng was shocked: "Chairman, is this Mini LED technology really so powerful?"

"Of course." Wang Yi said with a smile.

"If so, the future of Mini LED is unlimited!" Wang Sheng sighed: "I will gather the most professional elites and invest huge amounts of money to develop Mini LED!"

Wang Yi nodded with satisfaction: "Let's develop it. At that time, low-end TVs can use LCD screens, mid-to-high-end TVs can use Mini LED screens, and professional monitors, large car central control screens, etc., you can use Mini LEDs!"

Apart from mobile phones, Mini LED is the future!

Once BOE develops Mini LED technology, in the future, Xingyi TV, Unbounded TV, Xingyi computer monitor, Xingyi car central control, car screen, etc. can all directly use Mini LED!

However, laptops, ultrabooks, tablets, and LCDs are still the mainstream.

High-end notebooks will use Mini LED or OLED.

Wang Sheng thought: "Chairman, Mini LED is only 50%-100% higher than LCD, which is comparable to the effect of OLED, and is definitely the best choice! Doesn't that mean that OLED's future is bleak and will be completely anticipated by Mini LED, so there is no need to develop it in the future?"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "OLED still needs to continue to develop, but the focus is not on TV, computer monitor, car monitor, but on mobile phone notebooks! Especially for mobile phones, OLED will still have to be used in the future!"

Wang Sheng was even more confused: "Chairman, why don't you use Mini LED for your mobile phone?"

"The Mini LED backlight module is thicker and has a complex structure, which will increase the thickness of the phone's body, which does not conform to the concept of light and thin design of the phone. Moreover, the backlight of Mini LED is always bright and consumes power, which will also reduce the battery life of the phone, making it more suitable for plug-in devices."

Wang Yiwei said: "In the future, high-end mobile phones will still use OLEDs with thinner, better picture quality and lower power consumption."

"So that's it." Wang Sheng understood Wang Yi's arrangement.

And I was very advised, so I held a high-level meeting the next day to start the deployment of Mini LED technology research and development.

This time node was several years earlier than in the previous life.

Wang Yi supported this with both hands.

Once output is available, the second phase of BOE factory located in the island city can directly mass-produce Mini LED screens!

At that time, unbounded TVs, unbounded monitors, unbounded mobile phones, unbounded tablets, car screens, etc. will still be LCDs.

Xingyi TV, monitor, and car screen are Mini LEDs.

In the future, Xingyi mobile phones will also be on OLED screens.

As for Xingyi tablets, it is likely that LCD is still.

Xingyi laptops will also be the main LCD in the future, especially thinner business notebooks and super notebooks, which will be LCDs in ten years.

If you don’t pursue ultra-thin high-end Xingyi gaming laptops, you can directly use Mini LED!

Overall, low-end LCD, mid-to-high-end small-screen OLED, and large-screen Mini LED!

Next, it depends on when BOE will get the Mini LED and achieve mass production.

In 2017, BOE launched the research and development of Mini LED, made a prototype in 2018, and made a breakthrough in mass production in 2020. In the future, BOE's Mini LED screens made rapid progress, becoming the world's second largest super giant after Samsung.

But this time, with Wang Yi's prompt, BOE gave up the detour of 8K and chose ALL in Mini LED in 2014, and everything will be completely different.

In this way, it doesn’t take 2020 at all. Maybe it will be officially mass-produced in 2017, or even faster.

Nothing else. With Wang Yi’s support this time, BOE will not have to worry about R&D funds or orders, and the R&D progress will naturally be much faster.

Wang Yi also left BOE and began to return to the imperial capital.

However, on the way, Wang Yi was still thinking about Mini LED.

To be precise, it is Micro LED display technology!

If LCD is the starting point, then Mini LED is the upgrade, and the end point is Micro LED!

That's right, Mini LED is a transition technology for Micro LED.

Taking OLED as a reference, LCD is completely inferior to OLED. Mini LED and OLED have their own advantages and threats OLED, while Micro LED completely crushes oled.

It’s just a pity that Micro LED costs even more, even if it is five to ten times that of OLED in ten years.

Therefore, it is mainly used for commercial large screens and is difficult to use at home.

It is estimated that by 2030, technological breakthroughs and innovations will continue to be made, and Micro LED will be able to enter the homes of ordinary people and be fully popularized.

It is worth mentioning that in order to get rid of its dependence on Samsung OLED screens in the past, Apple specially acquired LuxVue, a Micro LED company, thus obtaining a large number of Micro LED technologies and patents.

Based on the company's technology and patents, Apple invested heavily and included the company's founder in the "Secret Display Lab"!

Trying to create a Micro LED screen to completely replace Samsung's OLED.

But unfortunately, ideals are full and reality is skinny.
To be continued...