“Cowen and Company advised investors to buy shares of Synaptics ahead of the company’s quarterly earnings report, saying Apple Computer could soon rekindle its relationship with the user-interface company,” Peter Kang reports for Forbes.
Kang reports, “On Monday, Cowen analyst Robert Stone upgraded Synaptics to ‘outperform’ from ‘neutral’ and said the company, which makes touch-sensor components for PC notebook computers and MP3 players, will likely receive a ‘meaningful but minority role’ as a components supplier to Apple as early as the fiscal first quarter of 2007.”
Kang reports, “Andrew Neff of Bear Stearns was a bit more cautious on a potential reunion with Apple, according to a note sent to clients on July 21. ‘While trade reports continue to point to a possible design win at Apple for iPod, timing remains uncertain,’ the analyst wrote.”
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I’m almost certain that these are the folks
who manufactured the trackpad for the first
PowerBook that contained one (don’t remember
which model that was.
GIMME THE NEWER NEWTON!!
…. oh right…. touch pads, not touch screens…. which company supplied some of the touch screen technology for the originals?
Oh yeah, it was the “blackbird” series. I’ve
worked on a lot of them. They were a pretty
good line.
http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/2k0512.html
The VERY Satirical Realist,
Not sure who did the Newton screens,
Sharp perhaps?
I think Apple has ditched Samsung for making the new iPod/parts.
1: Samsung potential competitor threat
2: Samsung BlueRay DVD drives failing miserably
3: Samsung executive spouting off his mouth about winning the Apple contract.
4: Samsung generally makes garbage products.
First rule about Project Mayhem is, you don’t talk about Project Mayhem
Please bring them back! The trackpads on my last two 17″ P’Books have driven me to despair!
Synaptics, suckling at the proverbial teet (again).