Synaptics Incorporated to Showcase New Human Machine Interface Innovations at CES 2020
January 06, 2020 at 06:30 pm IST
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Synaptics Incorporated announced it will showcase its diverse portfolio of technology at CES 2020 where visitors will experience intelligent innovations spanning edge computing, AI, automotive, smartphones, audio headsets and hearables, AR/VR headsets, broad PC solutions, media streamers, voice assistant devices, smart displays and smart cameras. Synaptics is driving a new generation of high-performance smartphone touchscreens by leveraging its widely-adopted touch controller and display driver technologies. At CES, the company will showcase its latest on-cell premium features including active pen support, face detect, and support for high report rates of 90Hz and 120Hz displays in preparation for ongoing growth in OLED displays and a global 5G rollout. Synaptics will showcase its new VideoSmart™ VS680 solution, a computing SoC that combines a CPU, NPU, and GPU. This new multimodal platform with integrated neural network accelerator is purpose built with perceptive intelligence for applications including smart displays, smart cameras, set-top-boxes and media streamers. At CES, the company is also launching a new TD7850 Automotive TDDI solution for touchscreens up to 15 inches. Pioneered by Synaptics, its automotive TDDI solutions integrate sophisticated touch and display technologies into a single chip, while enabling superior optical performance over conventional touchscreens. Demonstrations will also include multiple display color matching, and a display featuring an integrated capacitive-based physical knob on the panel. The company will also showcase its automotive-specific fingerprint technology. Showcasing leadership in personal headset audio technology, Synaptics will demonstrate its upcoming True Wireless Stereo (TWS) AudioSmart™ platform featuring immersive high-resolution sound, integrated AI, voice, active noise cancellation (ANC) and much more. High-performance USB-C wired solutions will also be on display. In the AR/VR space, Synaptics will demonstrate a complete end-to-end GPU to display pixel VR experience. This will include an LG V50S smartphone (powered by its OLED touch & display ICs), tethered via USB-C to a Pico REAL Plus VR headset (enabled by its video interface bridge & 4K display ICs). For PC solutions, Synaptics will demonstrate its latest SecurePad™ (TouchPad™ with an integrated Natural ID™ fingerprint sensor), fingerprint sensors integrated with keyboards and power buttons, and a variety of TouchPads used on Dell, HP, Lenovo and other customer notebooks. The company will also demonstrate its ConnectSmart™ video interface solutions including a portable PC docking station driving an 8K television among other accessories.
Synaptics Incorporated is a developer and fabless supplier of mixed signal semiconductor solutions. The Company delivers complete chip, firmware and software semiconductor solutions that allow its customers to integrate advanced functions into their end products. It serves Internet of things (IoT), personal computer and mobile markets. Its IoT market solutions consist of wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and global positioning system, or GPS) products, System-on Chip (SoC), products, display and touch-integrated circuits for use in automobiles, and a range of audio and video products and solutions. It provides custom and semi-custom product solutions for navigation, cursor control, and access to devices or applications through fingerprint authentication, and human presence detection solutions, for many of the PC OEMs. Its mobile product applications include smartphones, tablets, large touchscreen applications, as well as a variety of mobile, handheld, and entertainment devices.