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Synaptics develops human interface solutions based on touch, display and biometrics technologies for a large range of mobile computing, PC, entertainment and other consumer electronic devices. Customers include companies such as Acer, Amazon, Asus, Dell, Google, HP, HTC, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, BlackBerry and Toshiba. The products include touchpads, touchscreens, fingerprint ID and display integration technologies for devices including notebook PCs, PC peripherals, mobile devices, tablets and other consumer electronics. == History == Synaptics was founded as a neural network research company in 1986 by Kevin J. Kinsella, Gary Lynch, Lauren Yazolino, Federico Faggin (co-inventor of the microprocessor) and Carver Mead (VLSI pioneer). The company began to apply semiconductor hardware design techniques to a computing technology known as neural networks. The company started shipping commercial products in 1995, with its flagship TouchPad interface for notebook PCs. The TouchPad is a touch-sensitive pad for notebooks or keyboards that senses the position of a user’s finger(s) on the surface to provide screen navigation, cursor movement, application control, and a platform for interactive input. Synaptics went public in 2002 and is currently listed on the NASDAQ exchange. The IPO of 5 million common stock shares at a price of $11.00 per share received a 57% return at the close of Q1 2002. On November 7, 2013, Synaptics completed its acquisition of Validity Sensors, a fingerprint sensor vendor based in San Jose, CA. On June 10, 2014, Synaptics announced their acquisition of Renesas SP Drivers Inc., a Japanese company that specializes in chips that manage LCD displays. Synaptics purchased Renesas SP for approximately JPY48.5B ($475 million) for 100% of the company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Synaptics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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