Synaptics Incorporated

Synaptics Incorporated was founded in 1986 and is based in Santa Clara, California. Synaptics Incorporated develops and supplies custom-designed human interface solutions that enable people to interact with various mobile computing, communications, entertainment, and other electronic devices. The company provides custom interface solutions for navigation, cursor control, and multimedia controls for PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It primarily targets the personal computer (PC) market and the market for digital lifestyle products, including mobile smartphones and feature phones, portable digital music and video players, and other select electronic device markets with its customized interface solutions. In addition to notebooks, other PC applications for the company's technology include peripherals, such as keyboards, mice, and monitors, as well as desktop and PC remote control applications. Its solutions for the PC market primarily include the TouchPad, a touch-sensitive pad that senses the position of a person's finger on its surface; the TouchStyk, an integrated pointing stick module; and dual pointing solutions, which combine both a TouchPad and a pointing stick into a single notebook computer enabling the users to use the interface of their choice.

Synaptics user interface solutions for digital lifestyle products comprise the ScrollStrip and TouchRing, which are scrolling solutions that enable users to navigate through menus and content; LightTouch capacitive buttons, which provide illuminated button functionality; and MobileTouch, NavPoint, and ClearTouch solutions. Synaptics sells its products to PC OEMs, as well as to various consumer electronics manufacturers primarily in the United States, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore, and Malaysia.