A test conducted by the independent Touch Panel Laboratories proved that a standard digital resistive touch panel can endure more than 20 million touches while remaining 100% functional and requiring the same low actuation force. Touch Panel Laboratories (http://www.touchpanel.co.jp) is a Japanese company established in 1998 that provides evaluation tests of touch panels and materials.

"The lifetime limit remains to be found," said Pascal Joguet, Stantum's CTO. "New test campaigns will be made, and we are confident that our technology can achieve even more touches."

The Touch Panel Laboratories industry-standard test featured hitting a single point repeatedly at a 250g force with a hard stylus. Fingers operation will lead to a greater lifetime because hitting with a hard stylus is far more intensive.

"These results demonstrate the superiority of digital resistive to analog multi-touch resistive – or AMR – in terms of lifetime usage," said Stantum CEO Robert Pelissier. "The AMR sensors that we tested encountered calibration issues as early as at one million touches, while digital resistive sensors had none after 20 million.

"These results underline the inherent robustness of digital resistive sensors. Unlike 4-wire or AMR touch panels, whose accuracy irrevocably deteriorates over time due to micro-scratches propagating on the ITO coating, digital resistive sensors' simple sensing scheme prevents them from being affected by resistivity changes."

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/multitouch-pioneer-jazzmutant-stantum-makes-cocky-three-finger/

IS2T® S.A. announces multi-touch Java support, embracing Stantum best-in-class multi-touch technology. IS2T optimized Java platforms offer application developers a tiny memory footprint, a high speed Java engine and optimized software library bundles to design Java applications for embedded systems. Stantum and IS2T have teamed up to enhance multi-touch technology on constrained devices, providing the embedded community with new opportunities to design compelling design-to-cost Human-Machine Interfaces for embedded devices with simple microprocessors providing computation performances as low as 40 MIPS. Users in automation markets such as home, building and industrial automation segments will benefit of new user's experience at affordable costs.

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Techbites: Why I’m excited about Stantum’s multi-touch technology

"the bottom line for me is that Stantum’s tech has the potential to enable applications that are unimaginable today"

PC Mag: Multitouch Firm Has No Fear of Apple

"Resistive screens have gotten a bad rap because earlier models took a lot of effort to press. But the latest resistive screens are competitive with capacitive screens in responsiveness, as I found out when trying a Stantum technology demo."

Engadget: Stantum multitouch Slate PC prototype hands-on

"this is basically the perfect touchscreen experience"

Electronics Weekly: ST adds multi-touch to lower cost resistive touchscreens

"It is wrong to assume that the world of touch control is moving entirely to capacitive touch technology."

Digital Marketing Talk: Stantum Slate PC – Resistive multi-touch awesomeness!

"Now, we have proof-of-concept that Resistive touch-screens can indeed outshine Capacitive touch-screen displays."

"As a proof-of-concept prototype, we were impressed by Statum's device"

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10435284-1.html

Stantum has the great pleasure to announce that its semiconductor licensee and partner ST unveiled a new multi-touch controller with unrivaled performances, and supporting screens up to 11”.

Named STM32TS60, the chip enables 10 simultaneous touches with a scan rate up to 250Hz in single or dual-chip architecture.

The chip benefits from Stantum’s digital resistive multi-touch technology, depicted by ST as “The ultimate technology”, with advantages such as Finger, nail or stylus touch capability.

For more information please visit ST’s web site   STM32TS60 literature   ST official press release

ENAC's Interactive Computing Labs have released a demo of Stantum's Slate PC running Fedora 12 with multi-touch capabilities.

The instructions are available here: http://lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/xorg.html

And here is a video demo:

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Gunze USA and Stantum Partnership

BORDEAUX, France, December 8, 2009 – Stantum, (http://www.stantum.com) a pioneer developer of multi-touch technology, and Gunze USA (http://www.gunzeusa.com), a world leader in resistive touch-panel manufacturing, today announced a partnership to co-design and deliver multi-touch solutions to the North American professional market.

The joint commitment will allow Gunze USA’s clients to benefit from Stantum’s multi-touch technology, with advantages such as:

• 10+ touches;
• fingers and stylus input;
• finger-pressure detection;
• low power consumption; and
• native Windows 7 support, with no driver required.

The two companies will co-design multi-touch modules based on the joint expertise of Stantum’s seven years of pioneering, proven multi-touch experience and Gunze USA’s leading manufacturing of touch-panels solutions, its workforce and its know-how.

“We are very pleased to work with Gunze USA,” said Francois Jeanneau, Stantum’s sales & business development director, North America. “Their superior quality of touch sensor solutions and their advanced manufacturing capabilities will enable North American customers to integrate multi-touch functionality into their products.”

Commented Aparna Sharma, president of Gunze USA: “We are excited to expand our product line and to include true multi-touch products in our portfolio. Stantum’s pioneering position in the industry now enables us to offer state-of–the-art multi-touch solutions to our existing and future customers.”

Gunze USA will provide these custom multi-touch modules to the North American market for use in industrial, automotive, defense, aerospace, medical, kiosk/point-of-sales, and other professional applications.

Unlike capacitive multi-touch, Stantum’s technology is particularly well suited to these professional markets, thanks to its:

• immunity to EMI issues, via easy coexistence with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth antennas around the screen;
• stylus input and high precision, enabling handwriting recognition; and
• ability to work flawlessly with gloves.

With this agreement, Gunze joins Stantum’s growing network of qualified touch-solutions partners and will benefit from the multi-touch pioneer’s dedicated support and design services.

About Gunze
Gunze http://www.gunzeusa.com is a world leader in resistive touch panel manufacturing. Gunze Ltd. Japan established Gunze USA in 1988 to better serve the needs of the North American market. Gunze works with OEMs and system integrators to design the most effective touch panel solutions. Gunze touch panels include polarizer and anti-reflective configurations with polycarbonate and glass substrates. Gunze designs and manufactures 4-wire, 5-wire and 8-wire touch sensors in their state-of-the-art facilities in North America and Asia for consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, medical, mobile, and POS/ kiosk applications.

About Stantum
Stantum has been the pioneering company in multi-touch technology since 2002, and in 2005 was the first company to market commercial products using a truly reliable multi-touch user interface. Today, Stantum’s patented and breakthrough multi-touch technology portfolio is available under license of IP bricks and associated engineering and design services. Stantum is headquartered in Bordeaux, France.

Guillaume Largillier, Chief Strategy Officer has been invited at the International Display Workshop Conference. His speech entitled "Specifying and Characterizing Tactile Performances for Multi-Touch Panels: Toward a User-Centric Metrology" will focus on  defining proper multi-touch performances measurements.

IDW will be held from December the 9th to the 11th in Miyazaki, Japan.

For more information: http://www.idw.ne.jp/

Microsoft Grants Windows 7 Logo Certification to Stantum’s Multi-Touch Technology

Stantum, a pioneer developer of multi-touch technology, today announced that its Slate PC demonstration platform has been certified “Compatible with Windows 7.” The certification was achieved for up to 10 simultaneous touch points, enabling users and developers to benefit from Stantum’s best-in-class multi-touch technology.

"This is good news for existing and future Stantum licensees,” said Stantum CEO Etienne Paillard. “Our pioneering experience, added to a long-term collaboration with Microsoft, has enabled this native multi-touch support since the first beta versions of Windows 7. Having the official logo now paves the way for OEMs considering our unique multi-touch technology for their future Windows 7-compliant products.”

Stantum’s technology enables virtually unlimited touch points, offering an outstanding experience for the end user and surpassing other multi-touch technologies, such as AMR (analog matrix resistive) and state-of-the-art projected-capacitive solutions.

The Slate PC demonstration platform features a 10.1-inch touch screen and exemplifies the major benefits of Stantum’s multi-touch technology:

• 10 or more simultaneous cursor points;
• finger and stylus input;
• finger-pressure detection;
• low power consumption; and
• native Windows 7 support, with no driver required.

Based on the Dell Inspiron Mini netbook platform, the demo is a slate PC with the multi-touch display screen replacing the keyboard. All operations – typing, handwriting, gestures, and classic cursor control – are input via the multi-touch screen, enabling an unprecedented user experience.

Unlike capacitive multi-touch, Stantum’s technology is particularly well suited to netbook and MID (mobile Internet device) form factors, thanks to:

• low solution cost;
• immunity to EMI issues, enabling an easy coexistence with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth antennas around the screen; and
• passive stylus input and high precision, enabling handwriting recognition and empowered Windows 7 interface usability.

More information is available at Microsoft’s Windows-qualification website: http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/ProductDetails.aspx?m=7&g=d&cid=400&aqid=5&sv=&f=86win7&pn=MDK10.1&oid=11170.

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