MagnaChip Looks to Expand Reach of OLED Displays Through Partnerships

MagnaChip Semiconductor announced Tuesday it plans to partner with companies to develop and standardize OLED-based human-interface capabilities for smart touch, stylus and fingerprint technologies based on its OLED display driver integrated circuits. The first partnership is with Elan, developer of smart human machine interface applications, including capacitive touch-screen controllers, capacitive trackpads and fingerprint sensors. The companies plan to expand capabilities of OLED displays for next-generation consumer, communication, computing, industrial products and automotive displays, it said. Referencing customer demand for stylus inputs on screens, MagnaChip said it will work with Elan to bring its stylus technologies to rigid and flexible OLED displays. Elan supports pen protocols defined by Huawei, Microsoft and Wacom.