[Repo] Pixel Plus Transformed into the next half of the company

Pixel Plus is a semiconductor design (fabless) company. The complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and image processing integrated circuit (IC) are developed. Beyond smartphones and closed circuit TVs (CCTV), they go to the semiconductor market for vehicle.

The recently visited pixel plus workplace was tidy like a fabless. He is borrowing the 6th and 7th floors of Gyeonggi R & DB Center in Twangy Techno Valley, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do.

Lee Spongy, CEO of Pixel Plus, said, It is good for walking for lunchtime because there are Twangy Lake Park in Twangy Mountain.

The fabless life is excellent talent

The reason why Pixel Plus nests in Won is to bring talent. Of the 105 employees, there are 57 R & D personnel. Pixel Plus was founded in April 2000 at Daemon Korea Institute of Science and Technology (WAIST). The following year, he moved to the Small and Medium Business Support Center near Won City Hall. In 2007, Gyeonggi-do moved in as soon as he built the Gyeonggi R & DB Center in Twangy.

Lee pointed out that the province is worse than the metropolitan area, he said. It is especially difficult to secure manpower. He said, I thought I should be next to Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electromechanical. I saw the virtue of the smartphone industry as an image sensor.

Pixel Plus, which has grown up, is building a building with 5th to 11th floors. Next year, he will move to Pang yo 2 Techno Valley, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. The company decided to devote 20% of space for information technology (IT) startup win-win. Startups such as autonomous driving and robots can consult with pixel plus and technology and management while paying cheaper rents and spending offices.

Comprehensive phone, CCTV, tea image sensor

In December 2003, Pixel Plus developed a high-resolution (HD) system on-chip (SOC) and delivered it to Samsung Electronics. In November 2004, he received the Tower of $20 million. In June 2008, he introduced an analog sensor for security and surveillance cameras, and in December 2013, he won the Tower of $100 million.

Pixel Plus saw another growth opportunity in the era of autonomous driving. This is because the camera runs everywhere. In February 2019, it entered the automotive semiconductor market. The AEC-Q100 certification has been obtained from the Automotive Electronic Council.

Lee emphasized that the goal is to continue to grow into a comprehensive image sensor chipset solution company.

NASDAQ · NASDAQ except tears and runny nose

Pixel Plus has also been driven to bankruptcy. In December 2005, when it was listed on the Nasdaq market in the US, a large customer said, 'Do not deliver an image sensor for smartphone to other companies' and canceled the contract. Pixel Plus sales dropped sharply. The stock price also led. Patent litigation was caught up. Eventually, it was delisted in the Nasdaq market.

Lee said, We challenged the NASDAQ market to become a world-class company. I later won the lawsuit, but it was very difficult to pay the staff because I could not recover the stock price.

Pixel Plus has been revived as a CCTV image sensor. It was listed on the NASDAQ market in June 2015, 10 years later after entering the Nasdaq market.

Lee said, I tried to solve it myself without going back when the problem came to me. When I was young, I grew up playing in a mountain village in Baekdudaegan, Baekdudaegan, Gangnam, he said.