Atmel’s XSense competes in the rapidly evolving flexible display market. Essentially, XSense is a high-performance, highly flexible touch sensor which allows engineers to design devices with curved surfaces and even add functionality along product edges. This offers manufacturers the capability to build light-weight, sleek, edgeless smartphones, tablets and other touch-enabled devices.
Atmel’s XSense technology has been chosen as a finalist candidate for EDN China’s “Top 10 Innovations Affecting Our Future” award.
Indeed Atmel’s XSense was recently featured in an EEWeb article, with the publication describing the technology as the “next step” in touchscreen product evolution.
With XSense already in production, OEMs have already started implementing it in the next generation of disruptive, touch-enabled devices.
Jennifer Colegrove, who owns Touch Display Research in Santa Clara, Calif., says the potential market for XSense and similar technologies will increase from $200 million in 2013 to $4 billion by 2020, primarily for tablet computers and other larger mobile devices.
