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Since its inception, Synaptics has always been a leader in how people interact with their machines – we are known widely as the HMI leader. Our lasting legacy will probably always be around our expertise in touch technology – we’re the company that brought you the original TouchPad on laptops. But we are also behind many of the capacitance sensing, display and identification technologies that are second nature to consumers now.…

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Put simply, a smart screen is a battery-powered, touch-screen device that connects, shares, and interacts with other devices. It is also known as a wireless monitor and is used for activities that require little or no keyboard involvement. It is a relatively low-cost and simple way of connecting web apps, video conferencing calls, and sharing a workspace with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity.

Smart screens have become an exciting…

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Remote controls have tended to be practical, utilitarian devices with a well-deserved reputation for being the hardest to find when needed most. It doesn’t have to be this way in an era when users are using voice to control devices at home, on the go, in the car, or at work. Enabled by always-on voice (AOV) capability, remote controls can instead become a powerful command center to search, select and control the content, execute commands with…

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Category: IoT, Audio, Voice

三十多年前,弗得里克·法金先生(Federico Faggin)和卡沃·米德先生(Carver Mead)从事硅方面的研究,旨在开发计算能力不逊人脑的硅片;嗣后,两位创始人创立了新突思(Synaptics,以下简称新突思)公司,旨在将这一想法走向商业化。时至今日,新突思一直致力于使机械设备能够模仿人类的认知能力。

两位联合创始人可谓是业界巨擘,当然,如今的年轻工程师可能对他们并不熟悉。弗得里克·法金先生在英特尔开发了世界上第一款商用微处理器,这为他的事业铺平了道路。随后,他与人合伙创立了Zilog,这家公司在20世纪80年代制造了家用电脑广泛应用的Z80 8位微处理器。卡沃·米德先生是加州理工学院教授,他在晶体管超大规模集成(VLSI)方面进行了开创性的研究,这是现代微芯片的关键技术。他与人合著了第一本晶体管超大规模集成教科书,这本教科书已广泛沿用了数十年。之后,他开始探索将这些晶体管作为模拟器件用来模拟生物计算系统的潜力,开创了神经形态计算领域。

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想象一下,如果十年前的你今天早上出现在你的卧室里。什么会使她惊讶?你的孩子已经12岁了,并且你搬到了一个更大的房子里。这些都是可以预料到的。新技术看起来并没有什么未来感。现在的手机比过去大了一些,使用电力的汽车也多了一些,但即使是最先进的高科技设备也与十年前没什么不同。(好吧,如果她非常仔细地观察,她可能会注意到几个房间角落里的一些奇怪的冰球形状的设备,以及一个连接着家庭娱乐室电脑的庞大的头盔状的东西。)

然而,真正令十年前的你感到惊奇的是,如今的人们是如何与所有这些设备互动的。我们对着电灯开关说话;我们用指纹启动汽车;我们用手势来控制和解锁智能手机里的各种功能。

她可能会问:“究竟是什么改变使现在这一切成为可能?”部分原因是无处不在的无线互联网和连接到的强大的云处理技术。但同样重要的是快速发展的芯片技术,使得廉价的设备能够通过视觉、听觉和触觉与人互动。

新突思是人机接口技术的领导者,我们的传感器、…

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