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 mergered.

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 2009 New Products   Nov. Introduced Novatek’s first 402ch COF gate driver IC featuring smallest chip size   Introduced Novatek’s first 800ch COF source driver IC with touch sensor   Introduced Novatek’s first 20 um pad pitch 600 ch COG gate driver   Introduced Taiwan’s first 1536ch COG source driver embedded with T-Con with CABC & LVDS interface for Netbook application.   Oct. Introduced 120Hz FHD   Introduced 1st Memory-In-Pixel (MIP) mobile LCD driver for still picture display with ultra-low power consumption   Introduced InView function, an EPG advanced feature, for DVB-T STB and iDTV solutions.   Introduced Novatek’s first WQVGA(480RGBx272) a-Si one-chip solution with dot-inversion for 4.3-inch PND application. Introduced first Internet TV SoC. Introduced H.264 iDTV SoC for DVB-T/C     Sept.                         Aug. Introduced NB TCON built in color engine function Introduced worldwide first low standby current 4mA HDMI1.3 + Overdrive scaler.   Introduced worldwide first low standby current 4mA DVI + Overdrive scaler.   Introduced new DVD SoC with DVB and HDMI support   Introduced Novatek’s first 14 um pad pitch QVGA 1-chip solution with asymmetric gamma for 3-inch DSC panel.   Introduced Novatek’s first 270+2ch COF 50V gate driver IC   Introduced 8bit mini-LVDS 1032ch COF 1/2 AVDD source driver   Introduced 8bit mini-LVDS 960ch COF 1/2 AVDD source driver   Introduced Advance Super Resolution technology to TV SOC.   Introduced 8bit mini-LVDS 960ch COF source driver   Introduced Novatek’s first PMU solution for NB & monitor application   Jul.                         Jun. Introduced Novatek’s first 6bit mini-LVDS 768ch COG 19um minimum pad pitch source driver   Introduced 6bit mini-LVDS 720ch COF 1/2 AVDD source driver   Introduced 900ch COG 18um minimum pad pitch gate driver   Introduced 8bit mini-LVDS 726ch COF 1/2 AVDD source driver   Introduced worldwide first low standby current 4mA   4 min VGA scaler.   Introduced worldwide first 1 data pair mini-LVDS output TCON   Introduced enhanced COFDM performance of DVB-T STB SoC.   Introduced Taiwan’s first 960/1026/1050/ 1200ch w/ RSDS & mini-LVDS COG Source Driver   Introduced Novatek’s first 1.2A constant current regulator for high luminance LED application   Introduced ATV SOC with multi-media decoder   Introduced 60Hz FHD Full high definition   Introduced Novatek’s first 272ch COF gate driver IC featuring smallest chip size   Introduced 263ch COG 40um minimum pad pitch gate driver     May       Introduced Novatek’s first +/-3% accuracy LED back-light current solution   Introduced First MDDI 1.2 I/F mobile LCD driver   Introduced Wide-LED panel uniformity enhance chip.   Introduced Novatek’s first Portable Multimedia Player controller   Introduced Novatek’s first 14 um pad pitch QVGA 1-chip solution with CABC & Hi-FRC for 3.5-inch PND panel.   Introduced 360ch COG 40um minimum pad pitch gate driver   Introduced 300ch COG 40um minimum pad pitch gate driver   Introduced 600ch COG 22um minimum pad pitch gate driver     Apr. Introduced Novatek’s first QVGA one-chip solution with CABC for 3.5-inch PND panel. Novatek’s first LED back-light driver import to mass production   Introduce 600ch COG 22um minimum pad pitch gate driver   Introduced Novatek’s first 6bit mini-LVDS 1026ch COG 18um minimum pad pitch 1/2 AVDD source driver   Introduced Cascade output Timing Controller for slim type panel.   Introduce new photo-only digital photo frame SoC with embedded RTC   Introduce Novatek’s first DSC/DV controller with H.264 720p30 video codec     Mar. Introduced Novatek’s 6 bit mini-LVDS COF 720ch source driver IC featuring smallest chip size   Introduced first AMOLED Mobile LCD driver with Brightness/Dimming Control     Feb.         Jan. Introduced CCFL panel uniformity enhance chip.   Introduced Novatek’s first 700mA LED driver solution for MR16 lighting application   Introduced Novatek’s first 8-channel LED driver for back-light   Introduced Novatek’s first 8bit mini-LVDS 1026ch COF 1/2 AVDD source driver   Introduced 960/900/864/816 ch COG gate driver.   Introduced Novatek’s first 1200 ch COG source driver embedded with T-Con for car application.   Introduced first a-Si TFT Mobile LCD driver with Audible Noise Elimination function.   Introduced high speed 250Mhz ADC input scaler.   Introduced Novatek’s first 6bit mini-LVDS 1026ch COF 1/2 AVDD source driver
Year 2008	New Products
	Nov.	Introduced the world's first PMD controller to support multiple H/W video decoding Introduced Taiwan's 1st DSC controller to support High Definition video CODEC Introduced Novatek's iDTV single chip solution for DVB-T
	Oct.	Introduced DVB-S STB SoC with PVR funition; DVB-T STB SoC certified with DTG MHEG-5 Introduced the first flyback controller with dimming function for LED lighting Introduced CBHD (China Blue High Definition) player front-end chipset solution Introduced the first WVGA 16M color single chip LCD driver IC Introduced the first QVGA 262K color with data compression sigle chip LCD driver IC Introduced Novatek's first WQVGA (480RGBx272) with GOA (Gate-On-Array) solution for 4.3" panel
	Sept.         Jul.	Introduced DVB_T STB SoC with PVR funtion Introduced Novatek's single chip IF demodulator for DVB-T iDTV application Introduced the first LED driver IC for solid state lighting. Introduced QPSK integrated DVB-S STB SoC with multimedia player Introduced the first low power consumption and operating current monitor controller, saving up to 30% operating power consumption Introduced the first double frame rate 120Hz monitor controller
	Jun.	Delivered deep color dual channel HDMI 1.3 monitor controller with support to XvYCC color Introduced Taiwan's first WQVGA (480RGBx272) a-Si one chip solution for 4.3" PND applicaiton
	May	Introduced Novatek's first HVGA/QVGA (960x480; 960x240) LTPS one chip solution for 3" DSC application Introduced the first VGA/nHD AMOLED 16M color single chip OLED driver IC
	Apr.	Introduced COFDM integrated DVB-T STB SoC with multimedia player Introduced Taiwan's first 1200ch COG source driver embedded T-Con with cascade funtion for WVGA (800RGBx480) DFP & Netbook application
	Mar.	Introduced the world's first green timing controller with standard 2 port in 1 port out function Introduced the world's DSC controller to support HD photo CODEC
	Feb.	Introduced cost effective SDTV decoder solution for China DTH and DVB-C market Introduced Novatek's first QVGA (320RGBx240) a-Si one chip solution for 3.5 PND application Introduced Taiwan's first timing controller built in with black insertion function