Hwang Ming-shen

Hwang Ming-shen leads Novatek Microelectronics as Chairman, overseeing the world's largest fabless designer of display driver integrated circuits (DDI). Display driver ICs are the semiconductors that control every pixel on a display — translating digital signals from a processor into the precise voltages that illuminate each pixel on LCD and OLED screens. Novatek holds over 25% of the global DDI market, supplying chips for TVs, smartphones, tablets, laptops, monitors, and automotive displays. Novatek is a Taiwanese company that designs its chips and outsources manufacturing to foundries (primarily TSMC and other Taiwanese foundries). The company has been benefiting from the growing number and resolution of displays in everyday life: more screens per car (instrument clusters, infotainment, rear-seat entertainment), larger and higher-resolution TVs, and the proliferation of display-equipped devices. The automotive display segment has been a key growth driver — modern cars contain 3-5+ displays compared to 1-2 a decade ago, and the shift to EVs with large dashboard screens has accelerated this trend. Novatek has also been developing touch-and-display driver integration (TDDI) chips and AI-enabled chips for smart displays. Key stock drivers include TV panel production volumes, smartphone production, automotive display content growth, display resolution increases (driving higher DDI content per panel), average selling prices, competition with Samsung LSI, Himax, and Raydium, and the overall display industry cycle.