Synaptics, a privately owned company headquartered in the US, was founded in 1986 and employs approximately 1,770 individuals. The company specializes in semiconductor manufacturing, providing human interface hardware and software products. These products focus on areas such as touch, display, and biometrics, and integrate connectivity and AI-enhanced video, vision, audio, speech, and security processing capabilities.
On March 28, 2026, Synaptics published a guest paper by Saravanan Shanmugham, its Director of Software Engineering, detailing how to architect secure edge IoT systems with Wi-Fi 7. The paper highlights the necessity of integrating hardware-rooted trust, secure firmware management, and domain isolation into silicon architecture to ensure high-performance and long-term resilience for Wi-Fi-enabled devices. Previously, on March 26, 2026, Synaptics announced a limited edition Coral development board, developed in association with hardware partner Grinn Global and supply chain partner RS Group. This platform is based on Synaptics' Astra SL2610 AI system-on-chip (SoC) solution, incorporating an Arm Cortex-A55 processing core and the company's 1TOPS Torq neural processing unit (NPU). This NPU features the industry’s first implementation of Coral NPU technology, developed by Google Research.
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