 Hi, my name's Jim Wickenheiser. Welcome to ISE 2020. I'm with Silicon Core. We are a manufacturer of high-end LED displays. So over here, we have a 1.2 millimeter wall. It boasts our Lisa Encapsulation, which is a patented encapsulation technology. So it's durable. It's water-resistant. It's touch-ready. And it also has other technology that we have patents on, which is our ZAK technology and our common cathet technology, which allows this beautiful bright display to run at really cool temperatures. It's also very power efficient, as is all of our walls, as are all of our walls. And it's brightest and most beautiful in the industry. This is very big. Yeah, this one right here is a 220 inch 1.2 millimeter display. It's 1.2 millimeter. What does that mean? That's the spacing in between the pixels. Is that pretty good? 1.2? So 1.2 is, right now, that is our top seller. So in terms of the market, fine pixel pitch is anything really under 2 millimeters. And then you get into the more ultra fine pixel pitch where you get under 1 millimeter. And we'll show you a couple of those in a second. How much is the price for one of those? If you want to know, you can contact one of our sales guys. But Ballpark, you're probably looking budgetary pricing-wise, you're looking at around 100,000 U.S. So this is indoor? Correct. That's right. So most of the displays we do are indoor. We cater to high-end corporate. We're also into control rooms. We're into high-end retail. So it's really versatile in terms of applications. That's pretty much 4K, right? This is a 4K display. That's correct. And how often do the dead pixels appear? So dead pixels happen usually in the early life of a display. And so what we find is that we're able to, through our burden process, we're able to get most of those out of the display. But like everything, nothing's perfect. Even if you're in the low parts per million failure rate, which we are, that still means that there's several million pixels on the display. So that means there's going to be some. But those usually occur very early in the life cycle. Can you swap those out? I'm sorry, what was that? It's possible to swap the bad parts out? Swap like other tiles? Yeah, so we have PCBs that are roughly that big. And so even if you do have a pixel that goes out, you know, we're able to swap very small in terms of modularity. Right. And right next to this one, you're showing some micro LEDs. That's correct. So this is a 0.83. It's our Lotus product. Also has the least encapsulation. And so the 0.83, I mean, that means the pixels are literally less than a millimeter apart, 0.83 millimeters apart. And so without this encapsulation, this becomes a very fragile display. And so with our encapsulation, it's very robust, very tough. People might bump into it with backpacks or purses and it's not a problem. And you also have some partners showing even the aspect of this? Indeed. So over in the Lang booth, they have a much larger version of this. And so I would definitely encourage you to go over there and take a look because it's a beautiful display. So they have a larger of the 0.83 millimeter? Correct. Which is defined as what kind of micro LED definition does it have? I mean, are there competitors that have even smaller? There are some that do smaller. But there's several issues that come up when you're trying to do pixel pitches this small. The primary issue you run into is heat. And so other folks that do have a smaller pitch than this, they will typically have their displays roped off because they don't want to get too close because they're too hot. Now this one, it's a little bit above ambient. And yet we still get very high brightness. We get this fine pixel pitch. And we get incredible performance because we make our own driver chip. We're based in Silicon Valley and we're actually the only manufacturer in the whole industry that makes our own driver chips. What does the driver chip do to the display? So it does several things. That is really the heart of the system. So most manufacturers basically integrate other people's components. Whereas Silicon Core, we buy our LEDs like everybody else. But the driver chip is actually what converts all the digital signals into the electrical signals that are needed to actually light the LEDs. And so we have a very high bit depth driver chip, highest in the industry. We've got patents around that as well. And we've also got our ZAC technology which enables us to have an incredibly high dynamic range. So what's the bit depth you have? So our driver chip is actually capable of mid-team bit depth. Now most 15, that's in the neighborhood. We'll go with that. Some of that's internal proprietary. But most people are only able to feed us at most 10 bits. So we handle 10 bits with no problem at all. And we can do 12, we can go beyond that. But finding content and finding video processes that can actually drive that is actually the bigger problem for us. So you're in the Silicon Valley? Yes, we are. And how long time have you been doing this kind of products? So we as a company started in 1997. But at the time we weren't in the LED display space. So we've actually probably owned Silicon Core stuff in the past and had no idea. We had a very large market share in the driver chips for DVD RWs actually. And so if you've owned an optical drive at some point in your life, you probably owned some Silicon Core chips and just didn't know it. That said, we recognized that optical drives were going to be limited in terms of their lifetime. So we pivoted and we started making driver chips for FinePixelPitch LED. And so we were first in the world to come out with a 1.9 millimeter, a sub-2 millimeter display, which came with a 1.9 millimeter. And then we were first at 1.5, first at 1.2, first underneath 1 millimeter at a 0.95. I'll show you the 0.95 in a minute. But we've always been an industry leader, an industry technology pusher. Micro-LED is a big trend also. Everybody's talking about that. Who's going to make the best micro-LEDs? Well, we are, of course, but the reality is there's a lot of confusion in the marketplace in terms of mini-LED versus micro-LED. There's a lot of stuff labeled out there that's mini-LED or it's labeled micro-LED. It's actually mini-LED, but here's the truth. It's all on a continuum, right? And so the reality is that it's all sub-1 millimeter product at this point. And so the industry is kind of gelled around calling everything micro-LED. That's fine. It is what it is. But the truth is that that terminology will take us well down towards the bottom end of sub-1 millimeter. And, you know, the benefits, you get a much higher resolution display and a smaller area. But some of the drawbacks, if you can't control the heat, it's going to be a problem. I thought those ropes were because they were not so proud of their pixel pitch. No. You know, the pixel pitch on a lot of those, they're actually, they're impressive pixel pitches, but it's a lot of times it's a heat. Sometimes they don't want you touching the display because if it's not encapsulated, it'll be a very fragile display at that pixel pitch. You know, and I'm sure they all have their own specific reasons for wanting to put a rope up. But, you know, from our experience, you know, we don't put ropes up because we drive very cool. In fact, we've even got a power meter on our display. This whole display right here is running off a single circuit. So whether it's U.S., whether it's Europe, you know, we can run off a single circuit. So how much is the power that's used? Yeah, so that's 503 watts. That's less than half of a microwave. Well, a microwave oven is about 1200 watts. This is 500 on this content. Now, if we put on some brighter content, some white content, that's going to go up to 800 watts or so, maybe 900, but it's still well below 25% below a microwave oven. Has it compared with a very large LCD? You know, I have to be honest. I'm not sure. I think we beat it, but I don't want to... They don't make so big. That's one of the things. Well, that's absolutely true. And one of the things that they run into with the very large LCDs, and actually, this started back 10 years ago when Panasonic came out with their incredible 103-inch plasma. They don't fit in elevators, you know, so you end up having to hire a crane. I even in Manhattan, I was seeing helicopters. Helicopter, those 103s in. It was an impressive sight, right? And it was a beautiful display, but there's some logistics issues that come up when you start going beyond 85 inches. It's like bringing a grand piano. Yeah, that's right. That's exactly right. It's huge, but you can modular, it's easy. Absolutely. You can bring in your hand luggage. Whatever size you want, we can do it, and the logistics won't be as difficult. Alright, so what's next? Okay, so next is actually something very similar to this. That was a 1.2 that we just showed you. We were showing off some touch technology from a partner. This one's a 1.5, also with our Lisa, also with our proprietary driver chip. So really, it's just showing off. This has a partner set of software on there as well, but it's just showing some different pixel pitches for similar technology. Alright, but I mean, what's next in terms of technology? So for us, we're always looking on the backside of the board first, typically. So we're living inside the driver chip most of the time, so we're looking at reducing heat even further. We're looking at increasing bandwidth even further, so it's going to be more bit depth. It's going to be cooler temperatures. It's going to be higher brightness. So all of those things to really enhance the image and really kind of try and realize the full potential of LED, because we're not even there yet. How does a driver help with heat and power consumption? Alright, that's a very good question. So we drive our LEDs differently than most people. So we drive them what's called common cathode, and the typical way is common anode. And when you have common anode, basically all the input voltages are the same. But the LEDs don't take the same voltages, particularly red as a problem there. And so when you drive a common anode, you have to put a resistor on the red. Well, a resistor equals heat. We drive common anode, and what that means is we have the correct voltages going into all the LEDs and sink all that current on the cathode side, and so we don't have that resistor. So that right there reduces heat. We've got a couple other little secret sauce things that reduce heat, but that's the big one. So every LED on this display, if we drove a common anode, every LED would have a resistor associated with it. Another trend that seems to be big is many LED backlights for LCD displays. Are you in this business? No, we're not, but we've been talking to some potential partners on that. Because they probably have a challenge also keeping lower power consumption. So the way you're right, but the benefit of a common cathode really shows up when you're driving all three colors, R, G and B. If you're just throwing a single color backlight, like a lot of them are doing blue LEDs and doing kind of a quantum dot type approach. And in that case, if you just do one color, you'll drive at the right voltage. So in our scenario for our driver, that isn't necessarily a benefit, but we've got some other stuff that is a benefit to them.