Novatek is selected as the 37th place of the BusinessWeek Asia 2007 Top 50 Best Performing Company in Asia conducted by BusinessWeek Asia.
Jul.
Novatek is recognized as the largest supplier of Display Driver Ic for large-size LCD panels, as well as the world's second largest supplier of Display driver IC by world's leading reserach company - iSuppli.
Year 2006
Ranked as No. 24 in Business Week 2005 The Info Tech 100
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