Himax chip boom lifts Taiwan’s Wu brothers to $1 billion
What’s new: Their 24% stake gained as Himax shares more than doubled this year on demand for automotive display chips.
Himax Technologies’ rally has pushed brothers Biing-seng Wu and Jordan Wu to a combined net worth of about $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The siblings own 24% of the Tainan, Taiwan-based company, whose US-listed shares have more than doubled this year. Himax makes display-driver chips used in products from cars to smartwatches and says it holds a 40% share of the automotive display-chip market. Customers cited in the report include Ferrari, Volkswagen and Porsche. The company is also betting on smart glasses, AI and co-packaged optics as it looks beyond its long-running push into in-car screens.