page_title: Synaptics
section_title: Products
hierarchical_section_title: Synaptics / Products
caption_attribution_description: English: Fingerprint scanner by SynapticsItaliano: Lettore d'impronte digitali
context_page_description: Synaptics is a publicly owned San Jose, California-based developer of human interface hardware and software, including touchpads for computer laptops; touch, display driver, and fingerprint biometrics technology for smartphones; and touch, video and far-field voice technology for smart home devices and automotives. Synaptics primarily sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and display manufacturers.
  Since its founding in 1986, the company's notable innovations include the first ever computer touchpad, touch technology for the click wheel on the classic iPod, touch sensors used in numerous Android phones, touch and display driver integrated chips, and biometrics technology for fingerprint sensors. All touch and fingerprint technology on smartphones was based on capacitive sensing up until the introduction of optical fingerprint sensing in late 2016.
context_section_description: Synaptics' product offerings focus on human machine interface technologies, including touch, display and audio. The company also sells technologies through acquisitions, including fax/modem and imaging solutions.
  Touchpad products: Touch-sensitive trackpads that sense the position and movement of one or more fingers on their surfaces. The TouchPad's core market is notebook PCs.
  ClearPad touch controllers: Capacitive-touch controllers with minimal size and low power requirements, tailored for compact displays and mobile devices.
  Natural ID (capacitive) and Clear ID (optical) fingerprint sensors: Fingerprint authentication sensors combining biometrics and advanced encryption. Synaptics' fingerprint ID sensors can also function within smartphone displays, making it possible to eliminate the home button and bezels around the screen.
  ClearView display drivers: Display driver integrated circuits for LCDs and OLED displays.
  TouchView integrated touch and display controllers: Single and two-chip products with both touch and display technology, which allows devices to be thinner and lighter at lower costs.
  AudioSmart far-field voice DSPs: Audio hardware and software for voice-enabled devices, including products with Alexa and Cortana.
  AudioSmart digital headset SoCs: Audio codecs for headsets and other accessories.
  VideoSmart multimedia processors: Technology for TVs, set-top boxes, and over-the-top streaming devices (including technology acquired through the purchase of Marvell Technology Group's Multimedia Solutions unit).
  ImagingSmart image processors: Silicon and software products for document and photo imaging controllers, digital video, fax, and modem, acquired with the purchase of Conexant.
caption: Synaptics Clear ID fingerprint sensor
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