Principal Analyst - Displays
Yole Group
The Display Industry's Battle Royale: Can MicroLED Beat OLED?
Education:Ph,D in Optoelectonics (Grenoble Alps University)
Experience:2016-Present: Principal Display Market and Technologies Analyst – Yole Intelligence
2009-2016: Senior Analyst Solid State Lighting (LED/OLED) and Sapphire – Yole Intelligence
2003-2009: Market and operation Manager – Saint Gobain
In charge of product management and business development. Key markets and applications: Energy Efficient Lightings (LEDs/OLED), Compound Semiconductors (Substrates), Optical Telecom (passive components)
1997-2003: Project Manager – Saint Gobain
Eric Virey, PhD serves as a Principal Display Market and Technologies Analyst within the Photonics, Sensing & Display division at Yole Intelligence.
Eric has spoken in more than 60 industry conferences over the last 10 years and has been interviewed or quoted in multiple media including: The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Review, Forbes, Technology Review, etc.
Prior to joining Yole, Eric held R&D, engineering, manufacturing and marketing positions with Fortune 500 Company Saint-Gobain in France and the United States. Eric received a PhD in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble. He is based in Portland, OR.
As a self-emissive technology, microLEDs retain all benefits of OLEDs and should be able to improve on many aspects, but will it be enough to guaranty success? As microLED keep getting delayed and OLED keep improving, the value proposition of microLED is shrinking.