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Powering the Next Generation of Embedded Systems from Ultralow Power Endpoint AI Sensing to Smart Cabin Displays and Advanced Drone ImagingTAINAN, Taiwan, March 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Himax Technologies, Inc. ("Himax” or "Company”) (Nasdaq: HIMX), an industry leader in fabless display driver ICs and semiconductors, today announced participation in Embedded World 2026, a world-leading trade show for embedded electronics and industrial computing, taking place in Nürnberg, Germany, from March 10 - 12, 2026. Through a series of live demonstrations and technology showcases, Himax will highlight its WiseEye ultralow power endpoint AI innovations, the most comprehensive, market-leading automotive display IC portfolio, as well as state-of-the-art optical technologies.A key focus of the showcase will be the versatile deployment of WiseEye AI across a wide range of applications, including smart home, surveillance, access control, and smart glasses. Among featured demonstrations is the WiseGuard solution, a turnkey platform designed for advanced security applications. WiseGuard accurately detects and tracks multiple individuals, including their presence, location, and movement while maintaining high-accuracy AI sensing even in low-luminance environments. With proactive key events capture and milli-watt level power consumption, WiseGuard can extend battery life of end devices for as long as 5 years.The exhibition will also feature the Himax WiseEye module, designed to simplify AI integration, helping developers accelerate innovation and scale their products from prototype to commercial deployment. Notably, the PalmVein module, a rapid, contactless biometric authentication solution, will demonstrate secure and convenient identity verification capabilities. Himax is seeing strong design-in momentum for WiseEye modules across multiple industries, including smart home appliances, smart access control, workforce management, smart door locks, computer monitors and many others.Complementing its AI offerings, Himax will present a comprehensive portfolio of technologies, including its industry-leading automotive IC solutions, with a particular focus on Tcon solutions for automotive HUDs that address the growing demand for advanced, information-rich cockpit displays. Additional highlights include the market leading OLED touch controller IC that supports both tactile knobs and capacitive touch keys, enabling flexible design options while delivering a safer and more intuitive control experience for OLED automotive displays. Participants will also see a live demonstration of Himax’s automotive TDDI with advanced user-aware touch control, capable of distinguishing between driver and passenger touches to prevent cross-touch and enhance driving safety.Last but not least, Himax’s subsidiary Liqxtal Technology Inc. ("Liqxtal”) will showcase its innovative optical technologies for advanced drone AI imaging solutions. Liqxtal’s latest camera module adopts a long-range dual channel electro-optical (EO) architecture that supports up to 20× optical zoom, and integrates thermal infrared (IR) imaging capability. This design delivers stable imaging performance across various weather conditions and low visibility environments, while significantly enhancing aerial target detection and tracking. Compared with conventional single high zoom-lens designs, Liqxtal’s design structure reduces overall optical payload weight and form factor while maintaining long-range detection performance. These advantages make Liqxtal’s solution particularly suitable for drone systems with stringent payload and endurance requirements in markets such as aerial photography, security surveillance, and industrial long range remote inspection.Himax invites all interested parties to experience our groundbreaking WiseEye AI technology, industry-leading automotive display and optical solutions at our Embedded World 2026 exhibition booth in Hall 4, Stand 4 - 427, in Nürnberg, Germany. To schedule a meeting or booth tour, please contact Himax at HX_WISEEYE@himax.com.tw or Liqxtal at info@liqxtal.com.tw.About Himax Technologies, Inc.Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a leading global fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imaging processing technologies. The Company’s display driver ICs and timing controllers have been adopted at scale across multiple industries worldwide including TVs, PC monitors, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, automotive, ePaper devices, industrial displays, among others. As the global market share leader in automotive display technology, the Company offers innovative and comprehensive automotive IC solutions, including traditional driver ICs, advanced in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI), local dimming timing controllers (Local Dimming Tcon), Large Touch and Display Driver Integration (LTDI) and OLED display technologies. Himax is also a pioneer in tinyML visual-AI and optical technology related fields. The Company’s industry-leading WiseEyeTM Ultralow Power AI Sensing technology which incorporates Himax proprietary ultralow power AI processor, always-on CMOS image sensor, and CNN-based AI algorithm has been widely deployed in consumer electronics and AIoT related applications. Himax optics technologies, such as diffractive wafer level optics, LCoS microdisplays and 3D sensing solutions, are critical for facilitating emerging AR/VR/metaverse technologies. Additionally, Himax designs and provides touch controllers, OLED ICs, LED ICs, EPD ICs, power management ICs, and CMOS image sensors for diverse display application coverage. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs around 2,200 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan, Germany, and the US. Himax has 2,595 patents granted and 364 patents pending approval worldwide as of December 31, 2025.http://www.himax.com.twForward Looking Statements Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those described in this conference call include, but are not limited to, the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Company’s business; general business and economic conditions and the state of the semiconductor industry; market acceptance and competitiveness of the driver and non-driver products developed by the Company; demand for end-use applications products; reliance on a small group of principal customers; the uncertainty of continued success in technological innovations; our ability to develop and protect our intellectual property; pricing pressures including declines in average selling prices; changes in customer order patterns; changes in estimated full-year effective tax rate; shortage in supply of key components; changes in environmental laws and regulations; changes in export license regulated by Export Administration Regulations (EAR); exchange rate fluctuations; regulatory approvals for further investments in our subsidiaries; our ability to collect accounts receivable and manage inventory and other risks described from time to time in the Company's SEC filings, including those risks identified in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC, as may be amended.Himax Contacts: Karen Tiao, Head of IR/PRHimax Technologies, Inc.Tel: +886-2-2370-3999Fax: +886-2-2314-0877Email: hx_ir@himax.com.twwww.himax.com.twMark Schwalenberg, Director Investor Relations - US Representative MZ North AmericaTel: +1-312-261-6430Email: HIMX@mzgroup.us
Use of numares’ metabolite constellation showed a stable urinary metabolic profile in the first 14 days for living donor recipients, enabling accurate early rejection detectionDeceased donor recipients exhibit ischemia‐driven metabolic alterations that transiently mask rejection signalsGroundbreaking study was led by researchers at University Hospital Regensburg in conjunction with numares Health REGENSBURG, Germany, March 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- numares Health ("numares”), the transformative metabolomics company pioneering multidimensional biomarker insights that deliver clinical pathways for optimal patient care, today announces the publication of a new analysis in Frontiers in Medicine highlighting numares’ urinary metabolite constellation as the first biomarker test to show reliable diagnostic accuracy for detecting acute kidney transplant rejection during the critical first 14 days after transplantation in recipients of living donor kidneys.The study, "Diagnosis of Early Kidney Allograft Rejection: Influencing Factors in Metabolite‐Based Urine Analysis”, confirms that while many biomarker platforms struggle in the immediate post‐transplant phase, the metabolite constellation developed and validated by numares performs with full diagnostic strength right from day 1 in living-donor recipients (AUC 0.72; 95% CI 0.62-0.82).Acute rejection remains a major challenge in kidney transplantation, often requiring invasive biopsies for diagnosis. Traditional methods, such as serum creatinine monitoring, lack sensitivity and specificity, leading to missed cases or unnecessary procedures.The game‐changing study, led by researchers at University Hospital Regensburg and numares, identified critical factors that influence the accuracy of numares’ non-invasive urine test for early detection of acute kidney allograft rejection - especially in the immediate phase after transplantation.Prof. Dr. med. Miriam Banas, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, commented:"Unlike other biomarker approaches, which cannot be applied reliably in the first days after transplantation, this metabolite constellation retains its diagnostic strength in living‐donor recipients. This is a meaningful step toward continuous, non‐invasive monitoring from day one.”Florian Voss, Chief Executive Officer of numares Health, said: "At numares, we use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to quantify multiple biomarkers from a single serum sample. The paper’s findings are both a validation of our technology and a source of new hope for improving patient outcomes through personalized post-transplant monitoring.” numares Health’s urinary assay leverages NMR metabolomics to support clinical decision making in the context of kidney transplant rejection. This non-invasive test analyzes and evaluates a metabolite biomarker constellation previously identified and validated and is suitable for outpatient monitoring to improve patient compliance, decreasing the need for invasive, painful and expensive biopsy.The UMBRELLA study conducted at the Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany, analysed 682 urine samples from 109 kidney transplant recipients within the first 14 days post-transplant, using metabolomic profiling alongside 29 clinical and transplant-related parameters. Ten significant confounding factors were identified, including donor type, ischemia times, deceased donor status, recipient age, residual urine volume, eGFR, induction therapy, and HLA mismatches.For further information please contact:Optimum Strategic CommunicationsNick Bastin | Vici Rabbetts | Vareen Outhonesack | Katherine BlissEmail: Numares@optimumcomms.comTel: +44 (0) 20 4566 8543About numares Healthnumares Health is a pioneering metabolomics platform delivering multidimensional biomarker insights and clinical pathways for optimal patient care. Its highly automated digital conversion of biochemical pathways uses NMR spectra to simultaneously measure hundreds of biomarkers from a single, minimally-processed sample, ensuring precise, consistent, scalable and streamlined workflows across labs, clinical trials/treatment and geographies. With robust standardization, incremental tests can also be rapidly processed, even from historically collected spectra, accelerating the pace of clinical research. These digital biomarkers allow the seamless transition from lab bench to bedside, with no further chemical intervention required, dramatically saving costs, while boosting accuracy and efficiency.numares Health’s aim is to revolutionize R&D and treatment in the way that genomic analyses have changed cancer treatment but with far greater scope across intersecting causes of disease. It wants to change medicine from diagnosis/management of symptoms to accurately finding and treating underlying causes of disease.
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