Himax Technologies, Inc. Announces Multi-Level Force Touch Design-Wins in Smartphone
November 20 2015 - 5:00AM
Himax Force Touch Preferred by Leading Smartphone
Makers in Models Planned for 2016
Prepares for Mass Production to Meet Potentially
Significant Adoption Rates
Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:HIMX) ("Himax" or "Company"), a
leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and
other semiconductor products, today introduced the Multi-Level
Force Touch controller as the new member of its HiTouchTM G series
capacitive multi-touch, high performance single chip family.
Himax's Multi-Level Force Touch already enables three levels of
pressure, touch, peek and pop, in customers' early designs. In
terms of its technical capability, it can actually support more
than three levels of pressure - a feature that is expected to be
explored by smartphone and tablet makers for their future designs
to further enrich user experience. This cutting-edge controller
supports all mainstream displays, including a-Si and LTPS TFT-LCD,
and AMOLED. It is compatible with both out-cell and on-cell touch
panel modules.
The Company's Multi-Level Force Touch controller has secured
design-wins from leading smartphone makers for models to be
launched in the first half of 2016, and will eventually be inside
tablets and wearable devices as well.
Jordan Wu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Himax
Technologies, Inc., commented: "We are proud to have a very
comprehensive touch product portfolio especially with the addition
of the latest Multi-Level Force Touch technology into our product
portfolio. Early adopters of this product will be leading
smartphone and panel makers seeking technology advancement and
enhanced user experience. The introduction of Force Touch
technology illustrates our leading edge competitiveness in the
touch panel controller market. This is particularly important at a
time when the market is moving toward in-cell touch display
requiring integration of display driver and touch panel
controller."
About Himax Technologies, Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX) is a fabless semiconductor
solution provider dedicated to display imaging processing
technologies. Himax is a worldwide market leader in display driver
ICs and timing controllers used in TVs, laptops, monitors, mobile
phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation, and many other
consumer electronics devices. Additionally, Himax designs and
provides controllers for touch sensor displays, LCOS micro-displays
used in palm-size projectors and head-mounted displays, LED driver
ICs, power management ICs, scaler products for monitors and
projectors, tailor-made video processing IC solutions and silicon
IPs. The company also offers digital camera solutions, including
CMOS image sensors and wafer level optics, which are used in a wide
variety of applications such as mobile phone, tablet, laptop, TV,
PC camera, automobile, security and medical devices. Founded in
2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs
over 1,900 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan,
Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan and
the US. Himax has 2,712 patents granted and 612 patents pending
approval worldwide as of September 30, 2015. Himax has retained its
position as the leading display imaging processing semiconductor
solution provider to consumer electronics brands worldwide.
http://www.himax.com.tw
Forward Looking Statements
Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ
materially include, but not limited to, general business and
economic conditions and the state of the semiconductor industry;
market acceptance and competitiveness of the driver and non-driver
products developed by the Company; demand for end-use applications
products; reliance on a small group of principal customers; the
uncertainty of continued success in technological innovations; our
ability to develop and protect our intellectual property; pricing
pressures including declines in average selling prices; changes in
customer order patterns; changes in estimated full-year effective
tax rate; shortages in supply of key components; changes in
environmental laws and regulations; exchange rate fluctuations;
regulatory approvals for further investments in our subsidiaries;
our ability to collect accounts receivable and manage inventory and
other risks described from time to time in the Company's SEC
filings, including those risks identified in the section entitled
"Risk Factors" in its Form 20-F for the year ended December 31,
2014 filed with the SEC, as may be amended.
CONTACT: Company Contacts:
Jackie Chang, CFO
Himax Technologies, Inc.
Tel: 886-2-2370-3999 Ext.22300
Or
US Tel: +1-949-585-9838 Ext.252
Fax: 886-2-2314-0877
Email: jackie_chang@himax.com.tw
www.himax.com.tw
Nadiya Chen, Investor Relations
Himax Technologies, Inc.
Tel: +886-2-2370-3999 Ext. 22513
Fax: +886-2-2314-0877
www.himax.com.tw
Penny Lin, Investor Relations
Himax Technologies, Inc.
Tel: +886-2-2370-3999 Ext.22320
Fax: +886-2-2314-0877
Email: penny_lin@himax.com.tw
www.himax.com.tw
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