Wireless docking demo at Synaptics.
Wireless docking demo at Synaptics.
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Get ready for wireless docking monitors, architecture wars and better chip supplies | Synaptics CEO

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

The semiconductor industry has gone through a whipsaw in the pandemic, with a couple of years of parts shortages causing product delays, inflation and long waits for buying products. We’re now in a global economic downturn that may flip things around and ease the shortage.

Amid this turmoil, Synaptics has been pushing ahead with improvements in chips that are going into a wide variety of products, including PC monitors, virtual reality headsets and cars. Its touch-sensor products go into just about anything that you control with a finger touch. And more of those products are getting infused with artificial intelligence (AI).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.