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CES’25: Adata to showcase XPG gaming & Adata Industrial storage brands
LAS VEGAS: The excitement around the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 to be held in Vegas is building up with a slew of new technologies and products set to be launched and displayed by various global players.
Memory module and flash memory innovator, Adata Technology, will be showcasing its gaming sub-brand XPG and industrial-grade embedded storage brand Adata Industrial.
The company will be bringing its theme of Innovate for a Better Tomorrow to the Venetian in Las Vegas, located at booth Titian #2204 from 7-10 January. An online exhibition is being launched during this period for consumers around the world to experience a full range of innovative products in real time. You can log on to it here: https://event.adata.com/CES2025
Three exhibition zones, each with an overarching theme, have been planned for this year’s CES.
The Artificial Intelligence Computing Solutions Zone will showcase XPG AIcore DDR5 R-Dimm overclocked memory and XPG Lancer Cudimm RGB DDR5 gaming memory. Additional products in this zone include the XPG Defender SFF small form factor commercial chassis and XPG Edgecore TFX power supply, which are designed to meet the needs of edge computing systems and demonstrate Adata’s comprehensive investment in the evolution of the AI era.
The Innovative Technology and Smart Mobile Lifestyle Zone will see the launch of multiple Gen5 SSD cooling solutions and highlight the world’s first eco-friendly XPG Lancer NeonRGB DDR5 gaming memory with PCB heat dissipating coating, creating a new benchmark for cooling and efficient data transfer in the high-speed storage industry.
The Xtreme Performance Gear Zone will showcase highly efficient gaming systems, top-notch power supplies, and cooling solutions, taking gaming applications to a new level. Each exhibit combines innovative technologies and high-performance products, and consumers around the world can join online for a one-of-a-kind experience!
SEOUL: In the eternal battle between gamers demanding lightning-fast refresh rates and professionals craving pixel-perfect clarity, LG Display reckons it has found détente. The South Korean display titan is unveiling the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor panel that marries an RGB stripe structure with a blistering 240Hz refresh rate—a combination previously thought incompatible, like oil and water or fashion and function.
The breakthrough lies in how the pixels are arranged. RGB stripe structure lines up red, green and blue subpixels in neat rows, banishing the colour bleeding and fringing that plague lesser screens when you park your nose close to the display. It is the difference between reading crisp text and squinting at a rainbow-tinged mess. OLED panels using this method existed before, but they topped out at a sluggish 60Hz—fine for spreadsheets, useless for fragging opponents in first-person shooters.
LG Display’s engineering wizardry changes the game. By cranking the refresh rate to 240Hz whilst maintaining that pristine RGB stripe layout, the company has produced a panel that works equally well for colour-critical design work and twitchy gaming sessions. Better still, the panel incorporates Dynamic Frequency & Resolution technology, letting users toggle between ultra-high-definition at 240Hz and full-HD at a frankly ludicrous 480Hz. That is fast enough to make your eyeballs sweat.
The specs are suitably impressive: 160 pixels per inch for exceptional detail, optimised performance for Windows and font-rendering engines, and colour accuracy that should please the Photoshop brigade. LG Display achieved this by boosting the aperture ratio—the percentage of each pixel that actually emits light—and applying what it coyly describes as “various new technologies.” Translation: years of R&D and probably some sleepless nights.
Existing high-end gaming OLED monitors have relied on RGWB structures (which add a white subpixel) or triangular RGB arrangements. Both work, but neither delivers the sharpness that professionals demand. LG Display’s new stripe pattern is tailored specifically for monitor use, a recognition that staring at a screen from two feet away demands different engineering than watching telly from across the room.
The company is betting big on this technology, targeting the high-end monitor market where it already commands roughly 30 per cent of global OLED panel production. Among gaming OLED panels in mass production, LG Display claims world-leading specs across refresh rate, response time and resolution—a trifecta that sounds like marketing bluster until you check the numbers.
“Technology is the foundation of leadership in the rapidly growing OLED monitor market,” says LG Display head of the large display business unit Lee Hyun-woo. He promises to keep pushing “differentiated technologies compared to competitors”—corporate-speak for staying ahead of Chinese rivals snapping at LG’s heels.
The new panel will debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where LG Display plans to woo customers and expand its lineup. Initial rollout targets high-end gaming and professional monitors, the sweet spot where people actually pay premiums for superior screens rather than settling for whatever came with their laptop.
Whether this technology reshapes the monitor market or remains a niche luxury depends on two things: pricing and production scale. But for now, LG Display has pulled off something rare—a genuine technical leap that solves a real problem. Gamers get their speed, designers get their clarity, and LG gets bragging rights. In the cutthroat world of display tech, that counts as a win.
