Stock Report: Synaptics Inc. (SYNA) Report Updated: May 20, 2013 | Print This Page

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 in China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the United States. The company offers its solutions primarily to the personal computer (PC) market comprising notebook computer applications, and other peripherals, including keyboards, mice, and monitors, as well as remote control devices for desktops, PCs, and digital home applications; and for digital lifestyle products comprising mobile smart phones and feature phones, video and music players, and global positioning devices, as well as a range of mobile, handheld, wireless, and entertainment devices. It provides custom human interface solutions for navigation, cursor control, and multimedia controls for various PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company’s products include TouchPad, a touch-sensitive pad that senses the position and movement of a person’s finger on its surface; the ClickPad, a TouchPad application, which eliminates the need for physical buttons; the TouchStyk, a pointing stick module; and dual pointing solutions, which combine a TouchPad and a pointing stick into a single notebook computer, enabling users to use the interface of their choice. Its products also comprise ForcePad, NavPoint, ClearPad, FlexPad, ClearButtons, ThinTouch, and TouchButtons. The company offers its solutions to mobile smartphone and feature phone OEMs, as well as various consumer electronics manufacturers. Synaptics Incorporated was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.