A Customizable and Adaptable All-in-One Tcon Solution for High-Contrast, Distortion-Free HUDs

TAINAN, Taiwan, Sept. 02, 2025 — Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX) (“Himax” or “the Company”), a premier provider and fabless producer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, today unveiled its new HX8882-F13. This integrated timing controller (Tcon) solution boasts a comprehensive array of features, including an industry-first, full-area selectable local dewarping function, alongside Himax’s leading expertise in local dimming technology and On-Screen Display (OSD) capabilities designed to meet rigorous automotive functional safety standards. This multi-functional Tcon is exceptionally well-suited for Head-Up Display (HUD) applications, merging powerful image enhancement with unparalleled dewarping. Furthermore, its adaptable design can accommodate the diverse HUD systems of automakers and Tier 1 suppliers, delivering crucial information with remarkable clarity, visuals free from distortion, and notable cost efficiencies, thereby elevating both user experience and road safety.

Automotive HUD systems represent a rapidly growing trend, evolving beyond simple text and symbols to offer high-brightness, high-contrast, and AR-enhanced visuals, thus driving demand for advanced Tcon solutions. The HX8882-F series Tcon achieves superior contrast, effectively eliminating the “postcard effect” often observed in HUDs due to backlight leakage common in traditional TFT LCD panels. It also supports full-area selectable local dewarping, which corrects image distortion caused by windshield curvature or specific optical projection angles. Combined with On-Screen Display (OSD) functions essential for automotive functional safety, it projects sharp, high-fidelity images directly onto the windshield. Himax’s proprietary architecture allows for precise dewarping across any specific region of the display, ensuring enhanced visual accuracy and driver safety by keeping vital information clear and undistorted. This stands in stark contrast to competing offerings, which typically provide only full-screen dewarping or a split-screen method that excludes the lower display area.

With a versatile, truly all-encompassing design, the HX8882-F series Tcon solution supports a broad spectrum of HUD architectures. It addresses customers’ varying design and cost considerations for Windshield HUD (WHUD), Augmented Reality HUD (ARHUD), and Panoramic HUD (PHUD). Key industry players are currently conducting proof-of-concept (POC) evaluations of this advanced Tcon to validate its performance and ensure seamless integration into the next generation of automotive HUD systems.

“The HX8882-F13 Tcon underscores Himax’s continuous dedication to innovation, establishing a new benchmark for sophisticated automotive displays and marking a significant advancement in HUD technology. By combining our industry-first full-area dewarping with cutting-edge local dimming and OSD features, we provide a adaptable Tcon platform that empowers automakers and Tier 1 suppliers to develop next-generation HUD systems featuring distortion-free, high-contrast visuals for safer and more engaging driving experiences,” stated Jordan Wu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Himax.

Regarding Himax Technologies, Inc.

Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a prominent global fabless semiconductor solution provider, specializing in display imaging processing technologies. The Company’s display driver ICs and timing controllers are widely adopted across numerous global industries, including televisions, PC monitors, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, automotive applications, ePaper devices, and industrial displays, among others. As the worldwide market leader in automotive display technology, Himax delivers innovative and comprehensive automotive IC solutions. These include conventional driver ICs, advanced in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI), local dimming timing controllers (Local Dimming Tcon), Large Touch and Display Driver Integration (LTDI), and OLED display technologies. Himax is also an innovator in tinyML visual-AI and related optical fields. Its industry-leading WiseEyeTM Ultralow Power AI Sensing technology, which integrates Himax’s proprietary ultralow power AI processor, always-on CMOS image sensor, and CNN-based AI algorithm, has seen widespread deployment in consumer electronics and AIoT applications. Himax’s optical technologies, such as diffractive wafer level optics, LCoS microdisplays, and 3D sensing solutions, are crucial enablers for emerging AR/VR/metaverse technologies. Additionally, Himax designs and supplies touch controllers, OLED ICs, LED ICs, EPD ICs, power management ICs, and CMOS image sensors to cover diverse display application requirements. Established in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax presently employs approximately 2,200 individuals across three Taiwan-based offices (Tainan, Hsinchu, and Taipei) and country offices in China, Korea, Japan, Germany, and the US. As of June 30, 2025, Himax holds 2,609 granted patents and 370 pending patent approvals globally.

Forward-Looking Statements

Potential factors that could cause actual events or outcomes to vary substantially from those discussed in this conference call include, but are not limited to: the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Company’s operations; general economic and business conditions and the status of the semiconductor industry; market acceptance and competitive position of the driver and non-driver products developed by the Company; demand for end-use application products; reliance on a limited number of primary customers; the uncertainty surrounding sustained success in technological advancements; our capability to develop and safeguard our intellectual property; pricing pressures, including reductions in average selling prices; shifts in customer order patterns; alterations in the estimated full-year effective tax rate; shortages in the supply of critical components; changes in environmental laws and regulations; modifications in export licenses regulated by Export Administration Regulations (EAR); fluctuations in exchange rates; regulatory approvals required for additional investments in our subsidiaries; our capacity to collect accounts receivable and manage inventory; and other inherent risks detailed periodically in the Company’s SEC filings, including those risks specified in the section titled “Risk Factors” within its Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, as it may be amended.

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