Atmel and Corning Collaborate on Ultra-thin, Next-generation Touchscreens with Exceptional Multi-touch Functionality
31 March 2014 - 11:30PM
Atmel XSense® flexible touch sensors and 0.4mm Corning®
Gorilla® Glass enable groundbreaking, ultra-thin touchscreens for
consumer, industrial, and emerging applications
CORNING, N.Y. -
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ:
ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions,
today announced they are collaborating to develop ultra-thin
capacitive touchscreens with superior multi-touch performance for
next-generation applications.
This collaboration combines Atmel XSense® flexible
touch sensors with 0.4mm damage-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass.
Together, they deliver outstanding capacitive touch performance
through thinner flat or curved cover glass.
Additionally, the unique circuit design of XSense
enables narrower device borders, allowing for a more optimal
viewing area. The combination enables industrial designers to
create phones, tablets, notebooks, and other multi-touch devices
with sleeker, lighter, and more contemporary touch interfaces
without sacrificing reliability or performance.
Touch modules using cover glass thinner than 0.5
mm with relatively low conductive materials and non-optimal
microcontrollers have been difficult to implement due to low
signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and aliased touch events, resulting in
unsatisfactory multi-touch performance. XSense, combined with 0.4mm
or curved Corning Gorilla Glass, enables exceptional multi-touch
sensor panels that are thin, light, and damage-resistant.
"Our collaboration with Atmel accelerates the move
toward thinner cover glass and enables the use of curved
touchscreens for our customers designing next-generation
applications," said James Nagel, division vice president, Program
Development, Corning Gorilla Glass, Corning Specialty Materials.
"The toughness of 0.4mm and curved Gorilla Glass, coupled with the
remarkable touch performance and flexibility of XSense® enables the
most exciting consumer experience in the market today."
"Designers are demanding thinner and lighter
touchscreens but cannot compromise on multi-touch performance,"
said Jalil Shaikh, vice president and general manager of Touch
Materials, Atmel Corporation. "The combination of Corning's Gorilla
Glass with Atmel's XSense®, flexible touch sensor delivers
industry-leading, multi-touch performance while enabling thinner
mobile devices with cutting-edge curved surfaces for tomorrow's
consumer applications."
A sample device that pairs Atmel XSense® flexible
touch sensors with 0.4mm Gorilla Glass will be on display at
Computex Taipei in Taiwan, June 3-7.
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to update them in light of new information or future events.
About
Atmel
Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the
design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch
solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and
radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's
broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel
provides the electronics industry with complete system solutions
focused on industrial, consumer, communications, computing and
automotive markets.
Atmel XSense Flexible Touch
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About Corning
Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in
specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of
materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning
creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology
systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control,
telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass
substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops;
ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems;
optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for
telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery;
and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a
number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense,
astronomy, and metrology.
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Corning:
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974-5933
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Media Relations Contact -
Atmel:
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agnes.toan@atmel.com
Investor Relations Contact -
Corning:
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nicholsoas@corning.com
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