Himax to Integrate WiseEye™ with NVIDIA TAO to Advance AI Vision Deployment in a Robust Ecosystem
03 June 2024 - 6:00PM
Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) (“Himax” or “Company”), a
leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and
other semiconductor products, today announced it is integrating its
advanced WiseEye™ Ultralow Power AI Sensing solution with the
powerful NVIDIA TAO platform to enable enterprise-ready intelligent
AI capabilities and streamline on-device AI deployment for
battery-powered devices.
WiseEye™ seamlessly integrates Himax’s
proprietary ultralow power AI processors, always-on CMOS image
sensors, and advanced CNN-based AI algorithms, revolutionizing
battery-powered, on-device vision AI applications. With power
consumption of just a few milliwatts, WiseEye™ targets
battery-powered endpoint AI device markets to drive AI for everyday
life. Such devices typically demand extended battery life to
minimize maintenance and enhance usability. WiseEye™ delivers
intuitive and intelligent user interactions, making advanced AI
sensing possible even in power-constrained environments. By
bringing advanced, user-friendly AI capabilities, WiseEye™ sets a
new standard for endpoint AI, offering unmatched performance and
extended operational lifetimes.
Himax’s collaboration with NVIDIA empowers
developers with AI-accelerated capabilities through the WiseEye
module, Himax's proprietary evaluation kits, and third-party
development boards powered by WiseEye™ AI. Developers can quickly
democratize their end-point AI applications with these
cost-efficient, production-ready modules, while gaining access to a
professional, efficient training platform through NVIDIA TAO,
facilitating the development of enterprise-ready AI models. NVIDIA
TAO offers an API-driven workflow that leverages a collection of
pretrained models and transfer learning to enable users to build
custom AI models with ease. It simplifies AI development with
no-code or low-code capabilities, allowing for fine-tuning of
models for specific use cases. Additionally, NVIDIA TAO offers
tools to optimize and quantize deep learning models for deployment
on resource-constrained endpoint devices, including those with the
WiseEye AI processor integrated. These tools reduce model size and
ensure efficient performance in real-world scenarios. Seeed Studio,
a key partner in the WiseEye ecosystem, provides a real case
illustration of this collaboration through its SenseCraft toolkit,
which enables the seamless conversion of NVIDIA TAO-trained object
detection and classification models for no-code deployment on the
WiseEye platform. It also packages these models with firmware,
ensuring compatibility and interoperability with popular
development boards like Seeed Xiao, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and
ESP32. Seeed Studio’s solutions have already proven effective in
the market, facilitating successful AI implementation for
customers.
“We are thrilled to work with NVIDIA on this
collaboration that merges the power of NVIDIA TAO with Himax's
industry-leading WiseEye™ Ultralow Power AI Sensing solution. Himax
is helping shape the future by streamlining AI development to
facilitate quicker time-to-market, ushering in a new era of
on-device AI with ultralow power consumption, and marking a
significant leap forward in the industry,” said Mark Chen, Vice
President of Smart Sensing Business at Himax.
About Himax Technologies,
Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a
leading global fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to
display imaging processing technologies. The Company’s display
driver ICs and timing controllers have been adopted at scale across
multiple industries worldwide including TVs, PC monitors, laptops,
mobile phones, tablets, automotive, ePaper devices and 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 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 a pioneer in tinyML visual-AI and
optical technology-related fields. The Company’s industry-leading
WiseEye™ Ultralow Power AI Sensing technology which
incorporates Himax proprietary ultralow power AI processor,
always-on CMOS image sensor, and CNN-based AI algorithm has been
widely deployed in consumer electronics and AIoT-related
applications. Himax optics technologies, such as diffractive wafer
level optics, LCoS microdisplays and 3D sensing solutions, are
critical for facilitating emerging AR/VR/metaverse technologies.
Additionally, Himax designs and provides touch controllers, OLED
ICs, LED ICs, EPD ICs, power management ICs, and CMOS image sensors
for diverse display application coverage. Founded in 2001 and
headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs around
2,200 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and
Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan, Germany, and the
US. Himax has 2,772 patents granted and 398 patents pending
approval worldwide as of March 31, 2024.
http://www.himax.com.tw
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 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, 2023 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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