1991年，公司创始人饭塚哲哉怀着搭建起一个可以让以工程师为代表的“人财”最大限度地发挥自身能力的平台的初衷下创立了THine电子，并于2001年成功上市。

THine电子是通过模拟和数字LSI的规划・设计，进行销售的半导体设计公司( 没有工厂) 。THine Elctronics的技术，基于独自技术的创造力，以及通过为众多客户提供支持而积累的技能，获得了信赖。通过高清晰度电视等所必须的高速接口和电源控制技术，在消费者和事业活动等贴近人们身边的应用得以拓展。并且通过聘用新型人才，使快速准时提供产品以及选择最适合的制造工程成为可能，并充分挥发会作为半导体设计公司利器-应变能力，实现与时俱进。再有，与合作伙伴合力，以混合信号技术作为核心加速实现附加价值。

以人工智能、自动驾驶、IoT为首，世界正在不断地革新与变化中，半导体产业一直在支撑着其核心。

THine Elctronics以创造出新的知识资产为目标展开它的事业，在接口技术中运用其丰富的知识见解，向世界的应用市场提供了独特的附加价值。

在全球半导体产业持续成长同时，随着应用市场的越加复杂化，为对应该趋势，THine Elctronics从LSI及系统解决方案的两方面为市场提供其独特的附加价值。

为此，THine Elctronics采取以下重要措施。首先，以接口技术为轴心为解决客户的难题开发新产品。其次，利用THine Elctronics的特长展开模块事业，致力于为提高客户的附加价值提供各种方案。更进一步重视合作联盟，持续摸索与企业并购及合伙企业的共赢机会。

THine Elctronics将秉持着其创业精神--「人才资源最大限度地的充分发挥」利用优秀的人才及团队合作精神，实现与全球市场的客户、合伙公司一起扩大成长市场，为社会做出贡献。

研究开发出具有竞争力的产品群的战略
THine电子是研究开发型企业，为了生产出具有竞争力的产品群，视电路设计为中心的研究开发为企业的核心功能。
因此，特别重视聘用有能力的人才，利用经营高层以及学会的广泛人脉，采用有实际ＬＳＩ开发业绩的工程师和有高水平的研究业绩的大学毕业生。THine电子公司的工程师有超过一半的人拥有博士和硕士学位。

采用成熟程序
THine电子产品，为保持选择代工厂的的自由度，设计方面以成熟的半导体工艺为前提。换而言之，是用比其他公司晚一代或两代的工艺实现同等的性能。THine电子即便使用已成熟的生产工艺，在产品的规格上也具有竞争优势，高速、低功耗、宽幅动作范围等引以自豪，是价格优势的主要原因。
能够用成熟的工艺，生产出高性能、高品质的产品，汇聚人才是其基本因素，这些人才不只是相关图像处理的逻辑IC设计技术人员，也是挑战设计极限时的精通高速模拟电路的人才，是对ＣＭＯＳ工艺经验丰富的人才，能够进行对含半导体的能量带构造解析的人才。能够汇集这些人才，进行复合项目编组，是THine电子最强所在。

设计开发的高速化和效率化
因为能够应对称谓为DOG YEAR的信息设备的产品开发周期速度，所以THine电子的开发速度能够保障领先于业界的产品投入。因此，人力财力的因素自不必说，也配置了最先端设计开发工具。并且，为缩短开发时间，积极地运用公司内外的ＩＰ核、形成战略联盟相互提供IP、切入ＩＰ核市场。另外，不仅设计工具为了推进研发，引进高速混合信号测试设备，确立高速信号评价测试技术。

开发合作
THine电子，从应用产品制造大企业ＩＤＭ(Integrated Device Manufacturer：覆盖从半导体的设计开发到生产的垂直统和制造商）到图像ＬＳＩ制造商等，与有特色技术的供应商形成了战略开发合作。给这些合作伙伴，选择性的提供THine电子的核心技术ＩＰ核，进一步强化合作关系。
获得世界性的技术标准
为了使先进的THine电子产品技术、ＩＰ核构架成为世界标准、我们加入了各种规范组织、积极参加在行业团体会议和IEEE关联的国际学会主办的研讨发表。

获得专利
为了保护基于独自技术的领先优势，THine电子进行了很多的专利申请。画像显示驱动电路、同步电路、数模转换电路、ＣＭＯＳ工艺的动态存储器结构、画像数据的编码方法、信号时钟产生方法等、不仅在电路设计、在半导体工艺、信号处理方式等多方面拥有特长。

Tetsuya Iizuka has more than 40-year experiences in semiconductor industry with worldwide talented networks. He made THine’s start-up in 1991 in order to create a public entity, where talented team members find enormous opportunities to achieve their goals, and in 2001 THine Electronics went IPO at Japanese JASDAQ market. 

THine Electronics, Inc. is a global leader in high-speed serial interfaces and provider of mixed-signal LSI. THine offers new and valuable solutions for our global customers based on our own innovative technologies. 
The current LSI industry supports the core of evolutionally changing ecosystems such as artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and internet of things. In such ecosystems, THine takes a leading role to achieve innovations for new solution in the area of high-speed interface technology that THine has accumulated valuable experiences and know-hows to deliver THine’s original value added for global application markets.
While global semiconductor industry grows continuously, its application becomes more complicated. Under such situation, THine delivers value added by its LSI products as well as by its differentiated system solutions through its original innovation from Japan. In order to accelerate such leading role in LSI and system solutions, THine continuously develops new innovative products to solve customers’ problems especially in terms of interface solution. In addition, THine offers module and system solutions with differentiated advantages for customers to deliver values leveraged by such integrated systems. Moreover, THine intends to structure alliances with strategic partners to achieve win-win collaboration and M&A opportunities. 
Since THine Electronics’ foundation, THine has kept its key corporate concept, which is the "Fusion of Talented People and Managerial Resources." Based on such concept, THine intends to achieve the team’s contribution to society, making talented people’s team works to affect industries’ growth with customers and partners in the global markets.

Core function to generate excellent products
THine Electronics is an R&D-oriented firm; our core function is research and development centered around circuit design breeding specialized products with competitive excellence. We therefore attach great importance to recruiting the top talent. Our recruiting activities can draw on the global human networks of our executives in the business and academic worlds, and bring us both engineers who have proven experience in LSI development and newly graduated engineers with sophisticated expertise. This is why approximately more than half of our engineers are first-rate specialists with PhDs or masters degree in engineering fields.
Adoption of mature processes
To give us a good deal of freedom in selecting foundry firms, our product design is premised on well-established semiconductor processes. We can boast of low power consumption, wide operating margins, and all of which justify our price premium. Companies could not generate products with high levels of performance and quality through mature processes unless they have a team of first-rate personnel. Moreover, this team cannot consist entirely of logic LSI design engineers in the area of image signal processing; in order to challenge design limits, it must encompass engineers who are versed in handling high-speed analog circuits, have a wealth of experience in CMOS processes, and know how to analyze the physical properties of semiconductors, including the energy band structure.This ability to organize project teams with a diverse mix of personnel is another one of our key strengths.
Faster and smoother design and development
To keep abreast of the fast-paced dog-year product cycle in the sphere of information equipment, our development speed is rapid enough to turn out leading-edge products. This speed is backed not only by our R&D talent but also utilization of the latest tools. Furthermore, we are making vigorous use of IP cores, both internal and external, to shorten the time required for development. To this end, we form strategic alliances for mutual IP sharing and participate in the IP core market. In addition to the EDA tools, we introduced high-speed mixed signal testers for enhancement of our development process, establishing technology for high-speed signal testing. 

Alliance and development
We have formed strategic alliances for development with the major integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) also producing the applied products as well as venture firms in possession of unique technology, such as Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Silicon Motion, Inc. These alliances are reinforced by selective supply of our IP core to the partners.
Adoption of technology as global standards
To establish our advanced product technology and IP core architecture as global standards, THine is a member of various standards groups, and is also taking an active part in industry conferences and IEEE related conferences.
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Strategy of patents
To protect the advantage derived from our original technology, we have filed numerous patent applications in a variety of areas in circuit design, semiconductor processes, and signal processing. Specific examples are driver circuits for image data display, synchronization circuits, digital/analog conversion circuits, dynamic memory structures based on CMOS processes, image data encoding, and clock signal generation.