Samsung to Produce WriteTouch Sensor Panels

Much of the experience that a user has with a pen computer is defined by the quality and capability of the digitizing system. In an effort to increase the popularity of pen-based solutions by bringing advanced technology to the screen, Symbios Logic Inc. and Scriptel Holding, Inc. teamed over three years ago to develop an innovative electrostatic digital pen and finger touch system known as WriteTouch.

All of this research is about to get very real as Samsung, South Korea’s largest electronics company, has announced that it has readied its pilot facility to meet the initial production levels of glass sensor panels used with the WriteTouch digital pen technology. This amounts to approximately 50,000 units per month beginning in 1995 according to Mr. S.S. Lee, executive director of Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd.

The WriteTouch package includes the cordless, electrostatic digital pen (digitizer) technology, together with Samsung’s sensor panel and necessary software drivers. According to Vance Holloway, president of Scriptel Corporation, Samsung has achieved current product yields in excess of 90%. Together, the companies are on schedule to deliver the final product later this year as scheduled.

Earlier this year, WriteTouch announced its support for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 95 operating system. They are doing this by supplying a software driver permitting OEMs to employ the new digitizing technology in their range of pen and finger enabled computers. As you’ll recall, Windows 95 includes support for the pen as a native input device, along with the mouse and keyboard.

Scriptel Corporation
Vance Holloway
4145 Arlingate Plaza
Columbus, OH 43228
(614) 276-8402

Samsung Display Devices Co. Ltd.
S. S. Lee
331/210-7800