Synaptics has announced its play for the tablet touchscreen market, with the new ClearPad 7200 Series of capacitive touch-panels. Available in sizes up to 10.1-inches, the ClearPad 7200 Series supports up to ten simultaneous points of contact together with the usual multitouch gestures like pinch-zoom and chiral-rotate.
Unsurprisingly, the company is billing the new touch-panels as offering high accuracy, low latency, a high report rate and precise finger disambiguation. They should start showing up on various different devices, too, since they support Windows 7 touch together with Linux-based OSes such as Android and, we’re guessing, Google Chrome OS.
Synaptics expects the first OEM products using the ClearPad 7200 Series panels to hit the market in late 2010, though there’s no word on how the new touchscreens compare in price to existing capacitive technology.