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Synaptics Intros the Vega AI-Enabled Haptic Trackpad Technology

by Artem Alekseenko

Vega combines touch and force sensing on a single AI-enabled integrated circuit (IC), reducing latency and improving palm rejection.

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Revolutionizing Audio and Haptic Feedback: Synaptics Resonate’s Piezoelectric Transducers Create Audio Through Display Glass

by Omid Rahmat

Synaptics just did an official announcement to say that samples are ready to ship for its very cool Synaptics Resonate. This is a technology that uses a display’s surface as a sound and haptics transducer …

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Innovation Powers Ultra Large Multitouch Displays

by Artem Alekseenko

DISPLAX™ announced a successful collaboration with SYNAPTICS™ (Nasdaq: SYNA), which answers a long overdue need for a complete line of cost-effective, high-performance touch products for the education and office collaboration markets and a low-cost, …

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Synaptics to Acquire DisplayLink, Extending Video Interface Market Leadership

by Artem Alekseenko

Synaptics Incorporated announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire DisplayLink Corp., a leader in high-performance video compression technology, for $305 million in an all-cash transaction. The deal is expected to close in …

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Synaptics Announces Divestiture of Mobile LCD TDDI Business to Hua Capital

by Artem Alekseenko

Synaptics Incorporated, the leading developer of human interface solutions, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to divest its Asia-based, mobile LCD TDDI business to Hua Capital, through a special purpose entity backed by …

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Synaptics Exploits Marvell SoCs at the Edge

by Bob Raikes

Meeting only several times a year, it can be hard to keep up with Synaptics which started out with touch pads and then bought the display driver business from Renesas. That meant more display …

Synaptics Unveils New VR Display Driver and VR Bridge

by Andrew Fenn

Synaptics, a developer of human interface solutions, has announced sampling of its new ClearView R63455 display driver IC (DDIC), featuring dual-display 1000ppi 2K-per-eye resolution at 90Hz, combined with unique foveal transport support for VR …

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TDDI Chips To Reach 5 Million in 2018

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research has forecast that shipments of TDDI (touch and display driver integrated) chips will hit five million in 2018 with Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies expected start shipping in volume. Synaptics and FocalTech …

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Synaptics Now Sampling Two New ClearView OLED Display Driver ICs

by Damir Lokas

Synaptics Incorporated (NASDAQ: SYNA), the leading developer of human interface solutions, today announced expansion of its OLED display driver IC (DDIC) portfolio with two new solutions, the R66455 and R66451. The feature-rich Synaptics® ClearView™ …

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Synaptics Has New Driver and Fingerprint Chips

by Bob Raikes

Synaptics has a couple of new chips, including the R66452 which is a display driver for OLED smartphones and supports resolutions up to 1080 x 2160, HDR and 90Hz. The higher rate of refresh …

Synaptics Chips for Samsung?

by Bob Raikes

Chinese sources say that ASE and VisEra Technologies have won orders to package under-glass fingerprint sensors from Synaptics, to be used in the Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone. The FS4500 chip is reported to be …

Synaptics Developing Integrated Touch & Drivers

by Bob Raikes

It’s a while since we met with Synaptics and as a result we had a lot to catch up on. Historically, the company was known for its touch technology which is widely used in …