About Synaptics
Synaptics designs human interface chips, meaning the controllers that let people interact with devices. Its products include touch controllers, display drivers, fingerprint sensors and processors for audio, video and connected devices. It is a fabless chip designer, so it sells silicon rather than systems. Federico Faggin and Carver Mead founded the company in 1986, and it is headquartered in San Jose, California. It went public in 2002 and trades on Nasdaq. It originally became known for laptop touchpads.
Synaptics was founded in 1986 and is based in San Jose, CA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, AI Accelerators. Its shares trade as SYNA on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- Touch Controllers
- Display Drivers
- Edge AI
What Synaptics works on
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.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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