About Silicon Works (LX Semicon)
Silicon Works is now known as LX Semicon, a South Korean fabless company. Fabless means it designs chips and relies on outside foundries to make them. Its main products are display driver ICs, the chips that send signals to each pixel of a screen, and it supplies panels used in televisions, phones and other displays. It is listed in Korea and belongs to the LX group. It sits in the display supply chain, so it is adjacent to compute hardware rather than a processor designer. The record name should reflect the rename to LX Semicon.
Silicon Works (LX Semicon) was founded in 1999 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs. Its shares trade as 108320.KS on KRX.
Compute Technologies
- Display Drivers
- OLED Controllers
What Silicon Works (LX Semicon) works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
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