Synaptics Inc.

History

Year	Detail
1986	Synaptics, now incorporated in Delaware, was founded in March 1986 and started shipping its products in 1995.
2016	The company collaborated with Valeo, an automotive supplier, on the automotive touchscreen that combines capacitive touch, ClearForce force sensing technology, and haptic feedback.
2016	BYD Automotive, a manufacturer of electric vehicles, partnered with the company to develop advanced touch controller solutions for its automotive touchscreen applications.
2017	The company acquired Conexant Systems, LLC, a provider of voice and audio processing solutions for the smart home, and the Multimedia Solutions Business of Marvell Technology Group, a provider of advanced processing technology for video and audio applications, to extend its human interface leadership into the consumer IoT era.
2018	The company partnered with Key Ecosystem to develop a comprehensive turnkey platform to enable television service providers to quickly deploy cost-effective and innovative Pay TV services to address the rapidly expanding Android TV market.
2020	The company acquired assets and manufacturing rights associated with Broadcom's wireless IoT business to expand Synaptics’ footprint across various applications, including home automation, smart displays and speakers, media streamers, IP cameras, and automotive.
2020	The company expanded its Low Power Edge AI applications by launching a new Katana Edge AI platform, addressing a growing industry gap for solutions that enable battery-powered devices for consumer and industrial IoT markets.
2021	The company launched its S9861 TouchPad modules and expanded its portfolio into the Chromebook market.
2021	Synaptics acquired DSP Group, a global provider of voice and wireless chipset solutions for converged communications, to strengthen its wireless connectivity portfolio and further accelerate its IoT diversification.
2022	Synaptics launched the SYN4778, the most minor, lowest-power Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) IC for IoT devices such as wearables, mobile accessories, asset tagging and tracking systems, drones, and transportation navigation.
2022	The company launched SmartBridge SB7900 local dimming IC to enable more extensive, higher-contrast, higher-resolution automotive LCDs while lowering overall power and cost.
2023	The company expanded its Match-in-Sensor (MiS) Fingerprint Authentication portfolio by launching the Triton FS7800 family of high-resolution single-chip Match-in-Sensor (MiS) fingerprint authentication sensors for secure biometric user access to PCs and other devices.
2023	The company launched the SYN43711 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 combo system on chip (SoC) to extend its portfolio of products tailored for the high-performance segment of the market.
2024	The company expanded its Veros IoT connectivity family with the SYN20708 dual-core system on chip (SoC) for Bluetooth 5.4 and IEEE 802.15.4 for dedicated home hubs, soundbars, automotive infotainment systems, control panels, and other consumer, automotive, healthcare, and industrial systems.
2025	Synaptics collaborated with Google on Edge AI for the IoT to define the optimal implementation of multimodal processing for context-aware computing and to further integrate Google’s MLIR-compliant ML core on the Synaptics Astra hardware with open-source software and tools.