Accomplished Milestones

Year 2005	Ranked as No. 26 in Business Week 2004 The Info Tech 100 and No. 8 most profitable Company

Year 2004	Aug.	Capital surplus increases to NT$546M, capitalization grows to NT$3.977B. Novatek is selected by Business Weekly as “The Most Shareholder Friendly IC Fabless Company in Taiwan”.
	Jul.	Novatek is ranked as “Next for 1st place in the top 100 IT companies in Taiwan survey” conducted by business week.
	Jun.	Places 20th in the “IT 100” survey conducted by Business week.
	Mar	Novatek and Wiseware merge.

Year 2003	Dec.	Novatek and Wiseware agree to merge
	Aug.	Capital surplus increases to NT$495M, capitalization grows to NT$3.384B
	May	A contract is signed with the Ministry of Economic Affairs for new technology development – [Solid State Camcorder SoC]

Year 2002	Sept.	Novatek subsidiary in Souzhouto is established to serve the Chinese market.
	Aug.	Novatek is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange main board; (TSE), stock code : 3034. Capital surplus increases to NT$537M, capitalization grows to NT$2.888B.

Year 2001	Oct.	Novatek Japan, a sales subsidiary is established in Tokyo, Japan to reinforce its sales & service in the Japanese market.
	Apr.	Novatek is listed on the OTC market, stock code: 5499.

Year 2000	Dec.	SEC approves Novatek's initial public offering on the OTC market.

Year 1998	Aug.	Novatek is granted Lloyd's ISO-9001 international quality system certification.

Year 1997	May	Novatek is incorporated, from the former commercial product division of UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.)

Technology Breakthrough

Year 2007 New Products   Dec. Introduced Taiwan's first 6 bit ultra high pin count source driver IC. Conducted mass production of Novatek's iDTV solution for Europe and Taiwan.   Nov. Delivered Novatek's multimedia portable TV solution: MP3, DFP and recording function in Europe, Taiwan and Chian.   Aug. Introduced Novatek's first mobile MIPI driver IC Delivered Novatek's digital portable TV Solution in China Introduced Novatek's first LED backlight driver IC   Jun. Introduced Novatek's digital portable TV soluion in Europe and Taiwan   May Introduced Taiwan's first HVGA mobile driver IC with high speed serial interface Introduced Taiwan's first 10 bit high pin count source driver IC   Mar. Introduced Novatek's first TFD driver IC   Feb. Introduced digital TV single chip solution   Jan. Introduced Novatek's first E-ink driver IC Introduced analog FHD TV ready solution

Year 2006	New Products Introduced.
	Dec.   Nov.	New interface for TV driver with total solution Taiwan's first DSC backedn controller built-in digital image stabilization New 96x33 for mono STN LCD driver/controller
	Oct.	Scaler product line was grated with Windows Vista certification Taiwan's 8 bit mini-LVDS high pin count source driver Low power consumption 1.mW LTPS LCD mobile driver
	Aug.	Taiwan's first 1440ch driver IC with analog interface
	Jul.	160 channel for STN LCD driver QVGA LTPS LCD mobile driver 240 channel for STN LCD driver
	Jun.   May	World's first LCD monitor controller integrated with scaler, MCU, DRAM and flash memory 96x80 with 4G/S for STN LCD driver controller
	Apr.	Taiwan's first 6-bit high pin count source driver with 720 channel
	Mar.	World's first single chip driver IC for small & medium size LCD panel applying 0.25micron process 120 channel for STN LCD driver First gate driver IC with ESD@
	Jan.	World's first LCD monitor controller integrated with Scaler, MCD and flash memory.

Year 2005	New Products Introduced.
	Nov.	Taiwan's first DSC backend controller with MPEG-4 up to 30fps in VGA.
	Oct.	132RGB X 162 for 262K TFT LCD mobile driver
	Sep.	Taiwan's first 2.6M-color 176RGB X 240 OLED mobile driver World's first integrated SXGA scaler chipset combined with MCU, flash ROM and RSDS TCON
	Jul.	96RGB X 96 for 262K TFT LCD mobile driver
	May	World's first SXGA scaler chip integrated with MCU and flash ROM
	Apr.	132RGB X 132 dots for 65K Color STN LCD driver / controller
	Mar.	8bit high pin count source driver 104RGB X 81 dots for 65K Color STN LCD driver / controller (1) Highly integrated single chip low pin count SXGA monitor controller (2) Highly integrated single chip UXGA LCD monitor controller
	Jan.	(1) RAMless 176x220 262k TFT LCD mobile driver with programmable ROM (2) Low power driver IC for NB application

Year 2004	New Products Introduced.
	Dec.	(1) 176RGB*240 for 262K TFT LCD mobile driver. (2) 132RGB*176 dots for 65K color STN LCD driver / dontroller. (3) 96RGB *96 dots for 65K color STN LCD driver / controller.
	Nov.	104RGB*81 dots for 4K color STN LCD driver / controller
	Oct.	(1) 6bit high pin count source driver. (2) Highly integrated LCD TV controller
	Jul.	ISP single chip for mobile phone - camera module. WUXGA over driving timing controller 240RGB*320 for 262K LTPS LCD mobile driver
	Jun.	First 2MP ISP (Image Signal Processor)for mobile phones available in the market LCD TV driver
	Feb.	132RGB*176 for 262K TFT LCD mobile driver Single chip driver for mobile phones

Year 2003	New Products Introduced.
	Dec.	STN 132 X 132, 65K CSTN Controller/Driver
	Nov.	STN 132 X 65, High Pressure-resistance 15V RAM Map Driver IC
	Sept.	STN 102 X 65, Embedded Cap RAM Map Driver IC TFT LCD 480ch 6-Bit RSDS System Source Driver IC
	Jul.	STN 84 X 48, Embedded Cap RAM Map Driver IC
	May	LTPS-LCD built-in timing controller Source Driver IC
	Apr.	TFT LCD 480ch 6-Bit Source Driver IC
	Mar.	First UXGA RSDS TFT LCD timing controller with LVDS receiver in Taiwan. Highly integrated chip for SXGA LCD monitor.
	Feb.	Taiwan’s first 32-bit ARM base DSC Controller IC.. Taiwan's first SXGA RSDS TFT LCD timing controller with LVDS receiver.
	Jan.	Taiwan's first XGA RSDS TFT LCD timing controller with LVDS receiver.

Year 2002	New Products Introduced.
	Aug.	OLED 240ch 6-bit TTL system source driver IC.
	May	STN LCD 132 X 65 with IIC RAM-Map driver IC.
	Mar.	LCD monitor smart panel/smart integration single chip. CRT monitor Pre-Amp + OSD single chip. STN 4,096 color 128 X RGB X 160 2-chip solution driver ICs. TFT LCD 288/240ch internal timing controller source Driver IC. TFT LCD 8-bit 480ch low EMI interface source, 300ch Gate Driver IC.
	Feb.	TFT LCD 480ch 8-bit RSDS source driver IC. Single Chip LCD monitor Controller.

Year 2001	New Products Introduced.
	Dec.	32-bit RISC system on chip platform technology. TFT LCD 6-bit, 8-bit 384ch RSDS source driver IC.
	May	TFT LCD 384ch 8-bit source driver IC. Reflective type TFT LCD 360ch source, 322ch gate driver ICs.

Year 2000	New Products Introduced.
	Oct.	TFT LCD 384ch and 420ch 3-level gate driver IC.
	Jun.	STN LCD 100 X 33 and 132 X 65 RAM-MAP driver IC.
	May	STN COG version 16 X 2 and 20 X 2 character type driver IC.
	Apr.	TFT LCD 300/309ch 6-bit source driver IC.

Year 1999	New Products Introduced.
	Oct.	Mass production of Taiwan’s first 240ch gate driver and 288/240ch source driver for TFT LCDs

Year 1998	New Products Introduced.
	Nov.	Taiwan's first USB keyboard /mouse controller