How two Taiwanese brothers became billionaires by making the chips behind every screen
Nobody talks about display driver chips. They are not the kind of semiconductor that gets a TED Talk or a magazine cover. They do just one thing: they tell pixels when and how to light up. And then they disappear behind the glass. That anonymity suited Wu Biing-seng and Jordan Wu just fine.
Over two decades ago, the brothers founded Himax Technologies around exactly this kind of unglamorous, infrastructure-layer semiconductor. Just a chip that sits inside dashboards, smartwatches and in-vehicle displays, making screens work.
