The only "national team" in the display field
From the name alone, the importance of the National New Display Technology Innovation Center is undoubtedly obvious. In recent years, technological innovation institutions led by emerging industries and emerging technologies include: National High-speed Train Technology Innovation Center, National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center, and the newly established National New Display Technology Innovation Center is the only new display technology in my country. National Technology Innovation Center.
Whether it is high-speed rail, new energy vehicles or new display technology, the above-mentioned technological innovation centers have many things in common: on the one hand, the field they target is not basic science, but "technology" with a clear market orientation; on the other hand, enterprises It plays an important role in these innovation centers.
It is understood that the "National New Display Technology Innovation Center" is led by the Guangdong Juhua New Display Research Institute. Just like the name of "Juhua", this non-profit legal entity is a joint venture between TCL and China's new display industry chain upstream and downstream enterprises and related universities. , Scientific research institutes and other units, Juhua Research Institute is also the support, management and operation unit of the above-mentioned technological innovation center.
The innovation in the scientific research mechanism is the unique feature of this innovation center compared to many research institutions: as a non-profit legal entity, the National Technology Innovation Center does not directly engage in market-oriented product production and sales.
The "National New Display Technology Innovation Center" is more similar to a coordination mechanism of "enterprise + research institution". It establishes an open and collaborative innovation mechanism around the industrial chain, strengthens technology diffusion and transfer and transformation, and establishes an enterprise-oriented, market-oriented, The technological innovation system of in-depth integration of industry, university and research radiates to form a more complete industrial innovation ecology.
It's not just the panel itself that "stucks the neck"
Under the trend of intelligent connection of all things, the demand for new display products is growing rapidly. Through more than 10 years of hard work, Chinese companies have achieved catch-up and surpass in the field of liquid crystal display, established scale and competitive advantages, and accelerated the transfer of the industrial chain to China.
On this basis, China’s current goal is to transform from a display power to a display power and establish a leading edge in the next-generation display field. It needs to make breakthroughs in emerging display technologies such as OLED, Micro-LED, and Mini-LED in the short to medium term. In the medium and long term, it is more necessary to lay a solid foundation in the industrial chain fields of technology, materials, and equipment, and form a situation where upstream and downstream mutually promote continuous innovation.
The display technology industry is a concept of an industrial chain. The “neck” is often not in the middle reaches of the industrial chain of panel production, but is restricted by upstream materials and equipment. According to industry data, only in the material industry upstream of the panel, including polarizers, glass substrates, targets, photomasks, photoresists and other products, no product has a localization rate of more than 20% in recent years.
The cause of this kind of stuck neck dilemma is not only the problems of upstream material manufacturers' technology and products themselves, but also the insufficient integration of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. At the National "Two Sessions" in 2020, TCL founder Li Dongsheng, as a representative of the National People's Congress, bluntly stated that my country's new display industry has key materials and core equipment fields, which are scattered, scientific research and industry are disconnected, and materials and equipment are difficult to industrialize. The problem.
"Due to the long R&D cycle of display materials and equipment, and the lack of key pilot trials from R&D to application, the introduction of new materials and new equipment to downstream panel manufacturers is extremely risky. Any mistakes will cause manufacturers to suffer major losses. "Do not dare to use domestic materials and equipment." Li Dongsheng once said.
In other words, in the upper reaches of the display industry, domestic companies and scientific research institutions have many good technologies and achievements, and are also continuing to innovate, but midstream panel manufacturers often dare not use them because these technologies and achievements have not even been available since the establishment of the project. Fully consider the actual needs of the company, but also lack the conversion process from the laboratory, to the production line, and then to the market.
It is also based on this situation that the establishment of the "National New Display Technology Innovation Center" not only solves the problems of technological innovation itself, but also aims to further integrate the upstream and downstream resources of the industrial chain and promote the better use of China's new display industry. Synergistic effect.
The TCL of "Linking Up and Down"
In the past few decades, in the field of emerging technologies and industries, relying on the support of national power, leading industry leaders, and gathering the upstream and downstream of the industry chain to achieve catch-up and surpassing examples proved to be effective. In this context, the "National New Display Technology Innovation Center" takes breakthroughs in major key common technologies such as my country's new display materials, processes, devices and equipment as its main task, and promotes my country's display technology from following to original and then leading. The transformation also follows this path.
In this context, TCL, which is mainly deployed in the midstream of the display industry, not only plays a role in undertaking the upstream and downstream of the industry, but is also becoming a pioneer in leading the development of new display technologies and industries in China; R&D and innovation define the direction, and can also perceive and predict the demand for downstream terminal equipment, and realize the effective transmission from the market to the laboratory.
The "National New Display Technology Innovation Center" will be based on the overall development of the new display field, break through a number of core common key technologies, form first-class technology and industrial application technologies, promote the localization rate of key materials to more than 60%, and make breakthroughs in core equipment technologies.
In addition, this innovation center will also face the country’s major strategic needs and industrial development priorities. According to the technological development characteristics of the new display field, it will make overall deployment and unified planning. It will make full use of and give play to the advantages of participating units and face the new display industry chain. In each of the vertical directions, an innovation sub-platform was formed step by step.
It is reported that in addition to relying on the mechanism and resources of this innovation center, TCL Huaxing will also continue to increase R&D investment in new display technologies, key materials and equipment such as printed OLED, QLED and Mirco-LED. Obviously, the new display industry The round of great changes has begun to sprout.
