Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX) (“Himax” or “Company”), a
leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and
other semiconductor products, today announced the Company will
exhibit at CES 2023, the largest consumer electronics show in the
US, from January 5 – 8, 2023 in Las Vegas. Himax will showcase its
proprietary AI and Optics product lines, including
WiseEye™ smart image sensing (“WiseEye”), 3D sensing and Wafer
Level Optics (“WLO”) technologies, in a range of applications.
The WiseEye showcase will feature a live
demonstration with industry-leading ecosystem partners and
customers, including Novatek Microelectronics Corp., Useful
Sensors Inc., Seeed Studio and Wentai Technology Corp., to jointly
introduce the neomodern ultralow power tinyML solutions in smart
home, smart agriculture, smart office and surveillance
applications. WiseEye adoption is quickly expanding across a
diverse array of applications featuring new AI use cases in areas
such as human presence, motion sensing, people counting, face
detection, and speech recognition, with excellent power efficiency
and inference performance. Currently WiseEye is already in mass
production with Dell in a series of premium laptops and many other
AI applications, including automatic meter reading (AMR), shared
bike parking, and smart office/home.
Building on the success of its industry leading
WE1 AI processor, Himax will debut its next generation WE2 AI
processor at CES 2023. The WE2 features Arm based Cortex CPU and
Ethos NPU, rich sets of sensor control interfaces, industrial grade
security and cryptography engines, and multi-layer power management
architecture, which reaches a 40% peak power saving and 30-fold
inference speed, implying over 50 times power efficiency on a per
inference basis compared to WE1, which is already the industry’s
leading solution in terms of power consumption and inference speed
in the ultralow power AI processor category.
“We are extremely excited about the prospects
for WE2 which further demonstrates our commitment to strengthening
our WiseEye product roadmap,” said Jordan Wu, Chief Executive
Officer at Himax. “Our expertise in developing ultralow power AI
innovative technologies has enabled us to partner with innovative
AI companies such as Useful Sensors, led by Pete Warden, as well as
other leading tech experts in the AIoT industry to accelerate
adoption of our industry-leading solutions.”
Himax will also introduce a series of next
generation 3D vision processors at the event. The Company’s
next-gen 3D vision processor offers 3D Time of Flight (”ToF”) depth
ISP decoding capability, outputting 60Hz VGA and low latency motion
depth map, which are crucial for next generation AR/VR
applications. Additionally, the Company will showcase structured
light vision AI processors which can enable 3D eye tracking at a
210FPS output as well as 3D hand tracking, providing a
low-friction, immersive and advanced user experience for naked-eye
3D display applications.
For WLO, Himax is a pioneer in high-precision
diffraction optics technology with more than 15 years of
experience. At CES the Company will demonstrate its exceptional WLO
optics components, including 2/3P reflowable WLO lens, Diffractive
Optical Element (”DOE”), Micro Lens Array (”MLA”), and Waveguide.
While some of these optical components have already commenced
production by the world’s largest tech names in areas such as 3D
sensing, AR/VR, holographic displays and biomedical inspection
devices, additional new design engagements and collaborations in
metaverse-centric applications are under development and set to go
to market starting late 2023. Moreover, Himax will exhibit a series
of state-of-the-art dot projector modules and EVK (Evaluation Kit),
which are designed to drastically lower design entry barriers for
optics developers.
Himax invites all interested parties to stop by our exhibition
booth at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel (3400 Paradise Road, Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA) Suite 1230 to experience the Company’s
thrilling new technologies in AI and Optics product lines. To
schedule a meeting or booth tour, please contact Himax at:
hx_CES@himax.com.tw.
About Himax Technologies, Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: 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, automotive, digital cameras, car navigation,
virtual reality (VR) devices and many other consumer electronics
devices. Additionally, Himax designs and provides controllers for
touch sensor displays, in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration
(TDDI) single-chip solutions, AMOLED ICs, LED driver ICs, power
management ICs and LCoS micro-displays for augmented reality (AR)
devices and heads-up displays (HUD) for automotive. The Company
also offers CMOS image sensors, wafer level optics for AR devices,
3D sensing and ultralow power WiseEye™ smart image sensing,
which are used in a wide variety of applications such as mobile
phone, tablet, laptop, TV, PC camera, automobile, security, medical
device, home appliance, AIoT, etc. Founded in 2001 and
headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs around
2,100 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and
Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan, German, and the
US. Himax has 2,980 patents granted and 417 patents pending
approval worldwide as of September 30, 2022. 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
StatementsFactors that could cause actual events or
results to differ materially from those described in this
conference call include, but are not limited to, the effect of the
Covid-19 pandemic on the Company’s business; 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; shortage in supply of key components; changes in
environmental laws and regulations; changes in export license
regulated by Export Administration Regulations (EAR); 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, 2021 filed with the SEC, as may be amended.
Company Contacts:
Eric Li, Chief IR/PR
OfficerHimax Technologies, Inc.Tel: +886-6-505-0880 Fax:
+886-2-2314-0877Email: hx_ir@himax.com.twwww.himax.com.tw
Karen Tiao, Investor
RelationsHimax Technologies, Inc.Tel: +886-2-2370-3999Fax:
+886-2-2314-0877Email: hx_ir@himax.com.twwww.himax.com.tw
Mark Schwalenberg, DirectorInvestor
Relations - US RepresentativeMZ North AmericaTel:
+1-312-261-6430Email: HIMX@mzgroup.uswww.mzgroup.us
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