September 7, 2014 144Hz IPS-type Panels Finally On Their Way! 1440p as Well! Below we bring you some news from AU Optronics about some of their forthcoming panels. Surely of most interest is a new 27\" panel (M270DAN02.3) currently in development which will be based on AUO's AHVA panel technology, equivalent to LG. Display's IPS and with very similar performance characteristics. This is a 27\" panel with a 2560 x 1440 resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 350 cd/m2 brightness, sRGB gamut and 178/178 viewing angles. Nothing special you might think - wrong! This will be the first IPS-type panel to natively support 144Hz refresh rate, something buyers have been crying out for for a long time! 144Hz AHVA and 2560 x 1440 resolution, we can't wait! Note: to clear up any confusion, the panel being discussed is an AU Optronics AHVA technology , as opposed to their AMVA . AHVA is their equivalent to LG. Display's IPS technology, as is Samsung's PLS . Both were designed as a competing alternative. All 3 technologies are very similar in characteristics and performance in practice, and are often simply labelled as \"IPS\" by manufacturers. This is why we refer to them as IPS-type in this news piece. In other areas and in the 27\" space AU Optronics are also set to start production on their AHVA 3840 x 2160 resolution 4k panels. The M270QAN01.1 panel with an sRGB colour gamut will go into production in October while the Adobe RGB version, the M270QAN01.2 will go into production in Q4 of 2014. Also in 27\" size there are some new 2560 x 1440 AHVA panels coming soon. The M270DAN02.0 with sRGB gamut and the M270DAN02.1 with Adobe RGB gamut go into production in October and December respectively. There is also the M270DAN02.2, M270DAN02.3 and M270DAN02.5 going into production in September with sRGB gamuts. The M270DAN02.3 is perhaps the most interesting as this is the 144Hz capable AHVA panel we already discussed. Still sticking with 27\" sized panels for a moment, we already know about the M270Q002 V0 which was used with great success in the Asus ROG Swift PG278Q. This was the first 2560 x 1440 TN Film panel seen on the market and is manufactured by AU Optronics. AUO also have the new M270DTN01.1 in production now which offers a 2560 x 1440 TN Film panel although it doesn't list 144Hz refresh rate as a feature so perhaps this is a standard 60Hz only equivalent. Not forgetting their trusty old AMVA panels they also have the new M270HVN02.3 planned for October production. This is a 27\" panel with 1920 x 1080 resolution and 3000:1 contrast ratio. Still no sign of any 27\" AMVA panels with 2560 x 1440 resolution we're afraid. There's also the 21.5\" sized T215HVN01.1 AMVA panel which goes into production in October to look out for.