About Elan Microelectronics
Elan Microelectronics is a Taiwanese chip designer known for touchpad and touch controllers and fingerprint sensors used in laptops and other devices. Its products process sensor signals rather than serve as general-purpose compute processors, so it is a peripheral and edge-device record in this directory. The Hsinchu location and 1994 founding year in the existing record could not be confirmed from the sources checked for this update, so the description leaves them out.
Elan Microelectronics was founded in 1994 and is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs. Its shares trade as 2458.TW on TWSE.
Compute Technologies
- Touch Controllers
- Fingerprint Sensors
What Elan Microelectronics works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
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