Synaptics is a name that keeps surfacing in the rumor mill regarding UniBoss adoption.

Now we see the Gesture Suite.

Could UNXL be their supplier ? If not now, when ?

Windows 8

Synaptics Gesture Suite™ Windows 8 for TouchPad™

The Synaptics Gesture Suite (SGS 12.3) provides users with a powerful and intuitive way to be more productive and interactive with their Windows 8 notebook systems.

SGS 12.3 was developed from analyzing the most common user workflows, from entertainment activities such as viewing photos and listening to music, to productivity activities such as accessing emails and presentations. The result is an intelligent, usability-optimized model in the form of a customizable touchpad driver and control panel that makes it easy for consumers to understand and discover features. SGS 12.3 represents a growing portfolio of gestures available on Synaptics interface solutions. These new gestures are compatible with Microsoft Windows 8, extend the Windows 8 “Touch First” touchscreen experience to notebooks, enhancing the value and productivity of notebook PCs and peripheral devices that use the Synaptics TouchPad family products.

Features

• Optimized performance across Synaptics’ industry leading TouchPad family
• Ensures seamless gesture interoperability
• Designed to support superior usability across the entire gesture suite

Windows 8 TouchPad Gestures in SGS 12.3 and later

Windows 8 TouchScreen Gestures

Synaptics ClearPad™ Series 7 touchscreen solution portfolio offers the broadest and most advanced variety of clear capacitive sensing solutions. A ClearPad touch sensor provides an easy-to-use, discoverable interface for screen navigation, selection, interactive input, and much more. Users activate the underlying graphical user interface buttons and controls by touch.

The Synaptics image sensing Series 7 premier touchscreen solutions enable Microsoft’s new “Touch First” user experience.

The Windows 8 based ClearPad Series 7 portfolio includes the heritage of the single ASIC ClearPad 7300 solution that is designed to Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows RT touchscreen requirements up to 12.”

The ClearPad 74XX Series when designed for Windows 8 specifications can support up to 15.6” touchscreens.