Jan. 30, 2018 –
Taiwan-based fabless IC firm Himax Technologies has announced the acquisition of certain advanced nano 3D masters manufacturing assets and related intellectual property and business from a US company. The transaction is expected to close in February.
Neither the seller nor the terms of the agreement were disclosed.
The acquired advanced nano 3D manufacturing masters are primarily used in imprinting or stamping replication process to fabricate devices such as diffractive optical element (DOE), diffuser, collimator lens and micro lens array. The acquisition brings Himax the very upstream master tooling capability to supplement the company's wafer level optics (WLO) technology, which is critical in its efforts to offer 3D sensing total solutions, said the Taiwan-based fabless firm.
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