Quanta Computer Inc (廣達電腦), the world’s biggest contract notebook computer maker, inked a memorandum of understanding with local chip designer PixArt Imaging Inc (原相) yesterday to use PixArt chips that will enable touch features on its new laptops and PCs running Microsoft Corp’s new Windows 7 system.
The first shipment of laptops and all-in-one PCs will hit the stores ahead of the Christmas shopping season, PixArt said in a filing to the Taiwan Stock Exchange after the stock market closed yesterday.
PixArt’s CMOS optical touch technology would be a more cost-efficient solution than rival touch technologies such as capacitive and resistant technologies, especially when used in PCs with screens bigger than 10 inches, PixArt chief executive Sen Huang (黃森煌) said in the statement.
PixArt is a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corp (聯電), the world’s second-biggest contract chipmaker.
PixArt makes CMOS image sensors and develops its own touch technologies.
On June 4, the Hsinchu-based chip designer signed an agreement with SMART Technologies to license the Canadian company’s Digital Vison Touch patent and related know-how.
At the time, PixArt said it was working with a major Asian original design manufacturer to build application specific integrated circuits that integrate touch capability in PCs and laptops.
The stock price of PixArt jumped by nearly the 7 percent daily limit to NT$231, while Quanta Computer rose 3.49 percent to NT$53.4 yesterday.
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