At CES 2026 in Las Vegas TCL has showcased the world's first display powered by SQD-Mini LED technology, the TCL X11L. TCL claims the X11L can hit a huge peak brightness of 10,000 nits.
CES 2026 featured a host of new display manufacturers showing their latest RGB LED models. TCL instead showed SQD-Mini LED technology.
The X11L uses blue LEDs for its backlight, much like current mini-LED displays, but it includes two colour improvements, reformulated quantum dots that provide more colour than previously, and the UltraColor Filter from TCL CSOT (the company’s panel division) to take advantage of those new QDs and deliver more accurate colours per pixel. It means the X11L can achieve 100% of the BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB colour gamuts.
TCL X11L features 20,736 precise dimming zones and up to 10,000 nits.
SQD technology generates colour through quantum dot conversion, rather than individual LEDs. SQD is when a single chip produces what TCL calls 'pure white' light that then passes through a Super Quantum Dot filter. These filter particles are only 5 nanometers, compared to the standard filter size of 60 nanometers (as a comparision, 5 nanometers is roughly 1/20th the diameter of a strand of DNA).
TCL has also worked on reducing the bezel, this model is nearly 2 cm (0.8-in) thinner. Audio is by Bang & Olufsen.