Leadis Technology Announces Production Volume Shipments and Top-Tier Design Win for LDS522 65K Color OLED Display Driver IC

1 January 1970

Leadis Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: LDIS), a leading mixed-signal semiconductor developer of color display driver ICs for small panel displays, today announced production volume shipments of the LDS522, a 65K color OLED driver IC with integrated controller supporting 128 (RGB) x 68, 128 (RGB) x 36, and 96 (RGB) x 68 display resolutions. Engineered for mobile phone sub-displays and MP3 players, the device has achieved an initial design-win in the secondary display of a handset for a top-tier supplier.

The LDS522 offers multiple methods for display optimization, including gamma correction, luminance control, temperature variation compensation, and an EEPROM-based adjustment to address panel-to-panel process variation. The product provides a 65K color upgrade to the area-color capable LDS518 and a resolution upgrade to the LDS514 and LDS516, two of Leadis' other 65K color OLED offerings. Integrating 139k bits of full frame memory, an on-chip oscillator, and a DC/DC converter, the LDS522 is a highly-integrated SoC designed to provide vivid and accurate color images across a variety of operating conditions.

"We're pleased to announce LDS522 volume production and a design-win at a top-tier mobile phone supplier," said Paul Novell, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We continue to build upon our rich portfolio of products and provide customers with multiple technology, color, and resolution options for their mobile handset and portable media player applications."

About the LDS522

The LDS522 65K color OLED LCD driver IC is a highly-integrated high- performance device with integrated display RAM, on-chip oscillator, DC/DC converter, and temperature sensor to insure optimal visual performance.

In addition, the LDS522 includes programmable display features such as area scrolling, partial display, and color depth selection for enhanced screen performance.

For more information, visit http://www.leadis.com.

About Leadis Technology, Inc.

Leadis Technology, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, designs, develops and markets mixed-signal semiconductors that enable and enhance the features and capabilities of small panel displays, focusing on the mobile handset market. Leadis' core products are color display drivers, which are critical components of displays used in mobile consumer electronic devices. Leadis supplies display drivers supporting the major small panel display technologies, including a-Si and LTPS TFT LCD's, color STN LCD's, and color OLED displays.

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to the anticipated features, capabilities, benefits, potential market size, intended uses and performance of Leadis' new OLED Driver IC, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in ramping new products into production, lack of market acceptance of our new products, delays in the integration of our ICs into consumer electronic devices, our reliance on third-party manufacturers, general mobile handset and semiconductor industry trends, and other risks detailed and from time to time in Leadis' reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2006. Leadis disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. (LDISG)

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