Himax Technologies : Unveils Proprietary Front-LitTM LCoS at SID Display Week

Himax Display Incorporated ("HDI"), the majority-owned subsidiary of Himax Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX), is currently attending the SID Conference. There, the Company introduced an integrated LCoS microdisplay module called Front-Lit™ LCoS. Himax's proprietary Front-Lit™ LCoS module enables an ultra-compact and extremely power-efficient optical engine by consolidating two major components of optical engine and integrating them into the microdisplay module itself. These include: 1) the LED illumination system, and 2) the polarization beam splitter (PBS). Himax's new Front-Lit™ LCoS design considerably reduces the size while greatly improving the power efficiency of the entire optical engine. Equally important, the proprietary design also enables a much simplified optical engine design and assembly process, thereby lowering customers' optical engine manufacturing time and costs. Himax's Front-Lit™ LCoS is unique in the market and has been patented by the Company.
Himax's Front-Lit™ LCoS has met the accelerating specifications of head-mounted technologies' display requirements
such as a rich and bright image, a compact footprint, and low power consumption. Front-Lit™ LCoS produces over
10,000 nits of brightness and more than 50 nits/mW efficiency - the highest recorded ratio in the entire industry. The module also unites several new head-mounted technology requirements. These are: 1) a simplified optical engine manufacturing process similar to OLED's, 2) the high light efficiency of LCoS and, 3) the flexibility to adapt to various resolutions of LCoS. According to Himax's HDI team, Front-Lit™ LCoS is receiving significant interest by conference attendees including Himax's current roster of LCoS design clients and new entrants into the augmented-reality ("AR") and virtual-reality ("VR") technology space.
"To be successful and maintain our position in the market, innovation is a prerequisite", said Jordan Wu, CEO of Himax Technologies. "Our engineers push the technological envelop to match ever-increasing and challenging requirements by head-mounted technology designers. Our Front-Lit™ LCoS is our most recent technological breakthrough for head- mounted technology and the AR and VR markets under development. I am very proud of our team's new, innovative design and look forward to each new product they develop for our LCoS design-clients and future customers."
The design and production of Himax's LCoS displays spans more than a decade and includes brand-leading and specific application design clients and customers developing products for mass and niche markets. Himax currently maintains an in-house LCoS production facility in Taiwan which has a proven shipping record of up to 300,000 units per month. The Company has also stated that it can quickly expand capacity to up to 2.0 million units per month at their current
location.

Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX) is a fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imaging processing technolo gies. 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 contro llers 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 a nd headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs over 1,600 people from three Taiwan -based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan and the US. Himax has 2,287 patents granted and 953 patents pending approval worldwide as of March 31, 2014. Himax has retained its position as the leading display imaging processing semiconductor solution provider to consumer electronics brands worldwide.

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