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Court ruling in Apple’s favor could force HTC to switch touch-sensor supplier

Monday 12 December 2011 @ 12:06 pm
The maxTouch sensors from Atmel used by HTC may soon be replaced with similar products by Synaptics or Cypress Semiconductor. HTC may be forced to change its touch-sensor supplier based on a court ruling later this week. The issue is that Atmel’s sensors use “touch ITO pattern” technology which is very similar to some of [...]