TAINAN, Taiwan, April 24, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Himax Technologies, Inc. ("Himax" or "Company") (Nasdaq:HIMX) will hold a conference call with investors and analysts on Wednesday May 9, 2012 at 8:00am US Eastern Standard Time to discuss the Company's first quarter 2012 financial results.
HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES FIRST QUARTER 2012 EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALL
| DATE: | Wednesday, May 9, 2012 |
| TIME: | U.S. 8:00am ET |
| TAIWAN 8:00pm | |
| DIAL IN: | U.S. 1-877-407-4018 |
| INTERNATIONAL 1-201-689-8471 | |
| CONFERENCE ID: | 392552 |
| WEBCAST: | http://viavid.net/dce.aspx?sid=00009628 |
A replay of the call will be available beginning two hours after the call through midnight May 16, 2012 (12 p.m. May 17, Taiwan time) on www.himax.com.tw and by telephone at +1-877-870-5176 (US Domestic) or +1-858-384-5517 (International). The conference ID number is 392552. This call is being webcast by ViaVid Broadcasting and can be accessed by clicking on this http://viavid.net/dce.aspx?sid=00009628 or at ViaVid's website at http://www.viavid.net, where the webcast can be accessed through May 9, 2013.
The news release announcing the first quarter financial results will be issued on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 after the Nasdaq stock market closes.
About Himax Technologies, Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:HIMX) is a fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imagine processing technologies. Himax is a worldwide market leader in 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-mount displays, LED driver ICs, power management ICs, and chipsets for TVs and monitors. 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. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs 1,500 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan and the US. With more than 1,200 patents in three continents on its technologies, Himax has retained its position as the leading display image processing semiconductor solution provider to consumer electronics brands worldwide.
Forward Looking Statements
Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially 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; the uncertainty of success in our Taiwan listing plan which is still under review by Taiwan regulatory authorities and subject to change due to, among other things, changes in either Taiwan or U.S. authorities' policies and Taiwan regulatory authorities' acceptance of the Company's Taiwan listing application 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, 2010 filed with the SEC on May 20, 2011, as may be amended