Himax Technologies to Attend Craig-Hallum Institutional Investor Conference and Nomura Securities Pan Asia Technology Forum, May 29-31, 2013

TAINAN, Taiwan, May 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:HIMX) ("Himax" or "Company"), a supplier and fabless manufacturer of advanced display drivers and other semiconductor products, today announced the Company will attend two investor conferences in May 2013. Details about the conferences are below.

For more information on the Craig-Hallum Conference, please click the link below:

http://www.meetmax.com/sched/event_17449/~public/conference_home.html?event_id=17449

For more information on the Nomura Securities Pan-Asia Technology Forum, please click the link below:

https://nomuraiconf.dealogic.com/iconf/iConf/planning/iConfTravelDetails.asp?flffjcdgmephjleclicneggfnhakkcaonkbliekakagagacacaoaoakakagagacadijnnefecceekkpocmdgcabghkpohjoccfmljacaiaoamacaaagaeakaiaoamaca

The Company will host 1-on-1 meetings with conference attendees during each event. If you are looking to schedule a 1-on-1 meeting with the Company, please contact the respective conference organizers linked above or Himax's investor relations contacts listed below.

About Himax Technologies, Inc.

Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX) is a fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imaging processing technologies. Himax's main products include 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 controllers 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. Headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, the Company has offices in Hsinchu and Taipei, Taiwan and in China, Korea, Japan and the US.

http://www.himax.com.tw

Forward Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such factors and risks include, but not limited to, 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; shortages in supply of key components; changes in environmental laws and regulations; 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, 2012 filed with the SEC, as may be amended. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless required by applicable law.