PixArt Imaging

PixArt Imaging Inc. (原相科技, commonly "PixArt"; ticker TPEX: 3227 on the Taipei Exchange) is a Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company founded July 13, 1998, and headquartered in the Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. It is publicly listed and independent, with offices in the US, Malaysia, China, Japan, Korea, and Denmark. Third-party workforce data puts headcount at roughly 700–750 (Revelio Labs: ~740 as of 2026; TradingView: 735 for 2025). Consolidated revenue was NT$8.35 billion in 2024 and NT$9.13 billion (~US$290M) in 2025, a record year.

Products / operations. PixArt designs CMOS image sensors (CIS) and related sensing/navigation ICs. Its largest line is optical mouse and gaming-mouse sensor chips — it describes itself as the leading supplier of application-specific CIS and largest supplier of mouse sensor chips. Other lines include multi-object tracking and optical motion sensors, gesture and proximity/ambient-light sensors, capacitive and optical touch controllers, heart-rate PPG and far-infrared health sensors, RF/BLE SoCs, global-shutter and TDI image sensors (including a space-grade TDI sensor), industrial-control sensors, and custom ASIC design services. End markets span PC peripherals, gaming consoles, wearables, smart home, surveillance, automotive, industrial automation, robotics, and unmanned vehicles. It has also diversified via acquisitions, including Raynergy Tek (reported 2024).

Patent-litigation posture. PixArt is an operating company, not an NPE. In the tracked data it appears only once, as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant) — consistent with a product company targeted rather than a patent asserter. It has no asserted patent portfolio in this dataset.

Notable case. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. PixArt Imaging Inc., No. 6:22-cv-01077 (W.D. Tex., filed Oct. 12, 2022, assigned to Judge Alan D. Albright) — a patent-infringement suit by Cedar Lane, a Canadian entity widely characterized as a patent assertion vehicle that has filed dozens of suits and asserts acquired patents. Stanford's NPE Litigation Database flags Cedar Lane as a non-practicing entity and the case as asserting acquired patents; it was voluntarily dismissed on Nov. 1, 2022.