Himax and AUO Partner to Exhibit Revolutionary AmLED ® Integrated Automotive Display Platform at CES 2025 By Investing.com

Combining AUO’s HMI display and Himax’s most comprehensive automotive IC technologies to shape the future of smart, sustainable in-car displays

TAINAN, Taiwan, Jan. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Himax Technologies (NASDAQ: ), Inc. (Himax or Company) (Nasdaq: HIMX ), an industry leader in fabless display driver ICs and semiconductors, and AUO. Corporation ( AUO ) (TWSE: 2409), a technology-driven company pushing the boundaries of display innovation, today announced their collaboration to introduce AUO’s revolutionary Display HMI”AmLED ® Integrated Automotive Display Platform, featuring Himax’s advanced automotive IC solutions at CES 2025. Together, AUO and Himax form an intelligent automotive display platform that sets new benchmarks for clarity, functionality, and sustainability in smart cockpit experiences for modern vehicles.

As the automotive industry accelerates towards smart and autonomous vehicles, AUO uses its advanced Display HMI technologies to offer a suite of innovations for the smart cockpit, enhancing the user experience, improving visual clarity and supporting the development of green technology. Himax, with years of leadership and dominant market share in automotive IC solutions, plays a key role and has been chosen as a trusted partner in realizing this vision. Known for its expertise and comprehensive automotive portfolio, including traditional DDIC, TDDI, local dimming Tcon and other advanced solutions, Himax continues to drive innovation in the automotive display sector.

At CES 2025, AUO is exhibiting innovative AmLED ® display technologies, powered by a range of Himax’s leading automotive technologies. One demo shows a 16-inch AmLED ® display incorporating Himax’s local dimming Tcon with bridge feature, the HX6630-B, achieving up to 50% energy savings, directly supporting ESG goals and setting the benchmark for sustainability. Additionally, it incorporates Himax’s third generation TDDI HX83195, powering the ultra-high resolution of 3.2K x 2K and providing instant touch response without delay for seamless user interaction, ideal for advanced HMI display designs. The second demo highlights the AmLED ® integrated dashboard display solution, integrating two 23-inch curved displays. It provides a seamless ultra-wide viewing experience powered by the Himax automotive DDIC HX82105-A, with high-speed data transfer through Himax’s premium P2P iSP interface, COF technology for free-form and curved designs, and large pole-to-pole display capability.

Complemented by Himax’s local dimming Tcon HX8880-F, which provides up to 4800 dimming zones, these AmLED ® technologies provide exceptional contrast. The HX8880-F also provides a privacy function with an active anti-glare mode for the passenger side display, increasing driver safety and focus. Combining superior display contrast, energy efficiency, instant touch response and driver protection features, AmLED ® display technologies improve visual clarity, passenger interaction and overall performance in the smart cockpit. This integrated innovation not only meets the growing technical demands of modern automotive systems, but also supports next-generation human-machine interfaces and sustainability goals, driving the future of automotive display technology while elevating functionality and aesthetics.

At AUO, our core foundation as the world’s leading innovator in display technologies encourages us to push the boundaries of smart mobility and realize innovative applications through various HMI display solutions, said Dr. Wei-Lung Liau, Chief Technology Officer at AUO. Our AmLED ® automotive display solutions showcased at CES 2025 advance the integration of sustainability with exceptional energy efficiency, meeting the growing needs of smart and autonomous vehicles. Working with Himax allows us to leverage world-class automotive IC solutions, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance of automotive displays. This not only improves the user experience, but also revolutionizes the entire functionality of modern vehicles, further paving the way for a future of smart, sustainable mobility services.

Jordan Wu, Chief Executive Officer at Himax added: Himax is honored to be a trusted partner of AUO, a world leader in display innovation, leveraging each company’s expertise to raise the bar in automotive display technologies. Together, we strive to improve the driving and passenger experience by offering a safer, more immersive and enjoyable ride. We are proud to provide reliable, superior semiconductor solutions with our proven automotive product suite for AmLED ® displays, enhancing HMI display capabilities and supporting the automotive industry’s drive for sustainability, Jordan concluded.

About Himax Technologies, Inc.

Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a leading global provider of fabless semiconductor solutions dedicated to display image processing technologies. The company’s display driver ICs and timing controllers have been widely adopted in various industries worldwide, including TVs, PC monitors, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, automobiles, ePaper devices, industrial displays, among others. As the global market share leader in automotive display technology, the company offers innovative and comprehensive automotive IC solutions, including traditional drivers, advanced in-cell touch and display driver integration (TDDI), Local Dimming Tcon controllers, large Touch and Display Driver Integration (LTDI) and OLED display technologies. Himax is also a pioneer in tinyML visual-AI and fields related to optical technology. The company’s flagship WiseEye™ Ultralow Power AI Sensing technology, which includes Himax’s proprietary ultralow power AI processor, an always-on CMOS image sensor and a CNN-based AI algorithm, has been widely applied in consumer electronics and AIoT-related applications. Himax optical technologies, such as wafer-level diffraction optics, LCoS microdisplays and 3D sensing solutions, are key to facilitating new AR/VR/metaverse technologies. Additionally, Himax designs and offers touch controllers, OLED ICs, LED ICs, EPD ICs, power management ICs, and CMOS image sensors for a diverse coverage of display applications. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs approximately 2,200 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei, and offices in China, Korea, Japan, Germany and the US. Himax has 2,649 granted patents and 402 pending patents worldwide as of December 31, 2024.

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Forward-looking statements

Factors 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 operations; general business and economic conditions and the state of the semiconductor industry; market acceptance and competitiveness of driver and non-driver products developed by the Company; demand for end-use products; reliance on a small group of major customers; uncertainty of continued success in technological innovation; our ability to develop and protect our intellectual property; price pressure including a decline in average selling prices; changes in customer ordering patterns; changes in the estimated effective tax rate for the entire year; lack of supply of key components; changes in laws and regulations on environmental protection; changes in the export license regulated by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR); exchange rate fluctuations; regulatory approvals for further investments in our subsidiaries; our ability to collect receivables and manage inventory and other risks described from time to time in the Company’s filings with the SEC, including those risks identified in the section entitled “Risk Factors” on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023 with the SEC -om, as it can be modified.

Company contacts:

Eric Li, Chief IR/PR Officer

Himax Technologies, Inc.
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Karen Tiao, Investor Relations
Himax Technologies, Inc.
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Mark Schwalenberg, director
Investor Relations – US Representative
MZ North America
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Email: HIMX@mzgroup.us
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Source: Himax Technologies, Inc.