Cypress Semiconductor Shows Off TrueTouch Display

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Video of a new prototype out of the Cypress Semiconductor’s Silicon Valley laps emerged today. They’re new multi-touch screen, called the TrueTouch, is capable of tracking up to 10-fingers on it’s display. While you likely won’t buy a TrueTouch display for yourself, their technology might start showing up in computer displays and mobile phone touchscreens.

Their current prototype is 14-inches, but Cypress can easily scale their screens anywhere from 7-inches (for tablets and netbooks) to 17-inches (for big notebooks). Their screens will work out of the box with Windows 7. As we saw with the 3M touchscreens, support for Mac, Linux and earlier versions of Windows will probably be able to be patched in.

Cypress, who produce OEM parts for manufacturers, has been producing touch screens for sometime and (they say) they were pioneers in the capacitive touchscreen space. Since they were founded in 1982, they’ve amassed 1650 patents and another 1100 are pending.

Obviously, with the iPhone, iPad and Nexus One, multi-touch is a big deal. We’ll only see more of it in the future (to be honest, it’s more realistic than consumer 3D) in computers, mobile phones and other of our gadgets.

“With the current buzz around tablet PC products, this technology is one of the hottest new capabilities from Cypress. Our TrueTouch touchscreen solution was the industry’s first to offer multi-touch all-point tracking of unlimited fingers,” Cypress vice president Dhwani Vyas said in the press release.