{"id":1016300,"date":"2026-06-23T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016300"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:22:52","slug":"how-two-taiwanese-brothers-became-billionaires-by-making-the-chips-behind-every-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/how-two-taiwanese-brothers-became-billionaires-by-making-the-chips-behind-every-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"How two Taiwanese brothers became billionaires by making the chips behind every screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016339,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016300\/revisions\/1016339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}