Magnachip starts mass production of AMOLED Smart Phone Driver with TITC Compression IP

Hsin Chu, Taiwan – May 15, 2017 – Taiwan ImagingTek (TITC) today announced that MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., (Magnachip) a global leader and technology innovator in display panel ICs has started shipping AMOLED Driver chips with an on-chip frame buffer which the TITC top image quality nearly lossless image compression IP is embedded.

Taking advantage of sharp quality enhancement of the display panels, smart phone and TV system developers are migrating to higher resolution for higher image-video quality. Higher resolution in display device adds higher cost of frame buffer memory and related peripheral devices, limits the I/O bandwidth availability, increases level of EMI problem due to higher data rate and enlarged PCB size and signal routing.

“Our world top partners are pursuing for solution of high image quality , low power consumption and easing EMI issues in AMOLED Display panels ”, says Mr. Dong Hyun Shin, the marketing manager in charge of the Magnachip (An US public Co.) IP and marketing division. “TITC’s unique compression technology (IP) hosts very low gate count ad dissipates very lower power provides us flexibility of reducing memory cost with higher bandwidth availability and eases EMI issues. With the very experienced support team from TITC, we quickly finished design processes, and already entered mass production of the AMOLED driver chips for our world brand Smart phone partners with less expensive memory chip, lower power and less EMI issues”.

“We are excited to see mass production of Magnachip’s 3^rd AMOLED drivers shipping to world top smart phone vendors. TITC provides not only top quality compression IP with small gate count, lower memory cost, but also system know-how in reducing data rate of the image signal traveling among devices.” Says Mr. Star Sung, the CEO of TITC. “TITC’s lossless compression IPs have entered mass production in imaging/video systems since year 2006 through German Micronas (Sigma Design, an US public Co.), the world top TV decoder supplier then, Kawasaki Micron (Megachips) in TCON for TV, Renesas in TV processor & FRC, Novatek Himax, FocalTech in smart phone LCD Driver, Altek in 3D VR/MR Camera, Sunplus in DVD/STB chip and Italian Olivetti in MFP machines. We keep investing in lossless compression IPs as well as Motion Estimation and other image related technology, providing the best solutions and customer design for our world top partners.”

Some global system and IC suppliers in TV, Display panel, mobile phone, image sensor, DSC/DV, DVD/STB, 3D/Gaming, 3D/VR/AR/MR are adopting TITC IPs and solutions for cutting the power consumption, reducing the memory cost and easing the EMI issues. This exciting news of mass production from Magnachip further demonstrates the prevailing advantage of TITC compression technology in the consumer markets.

About Taiwan ImagingTek

Taiwan ImagingTek Corporation (TITC) is dedicated to the development and research of innovative image/video/audio processing and compression technology. ImagingTek was established in November 2002 with its main office located in ITRI Open Labs (A Taiwan government sponsored research institute). TITC is originally financially backed by a German federal government fund (tbg) has a business operation in Munich, Germany and a branch of TITC-USA located in Cupertino/CA, U.S.A. TITC's core compression technology has entered production in image and video related electronic products which provides substantial cost savings to system manufacturers. More information on TITC is available at http://www.TITC-USA.com/