Controller enables the first smartphone with virtual edge keys

24th June 2015

Siobhan O'Gorman

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Atmel has announced that it is powering the borderless nubia Z9 smartphone with its maXTouch T-series solution. The company’s proprietary single-layer pattern brings a true borderless and futuristic industrial design for tomorrow’s handsets. The maXTouch mXT336T delivers these features, along with advanced algorithms and Atmel’s adaptive sensing technology to enable virtual edge keys and sliders, delivering interaction all the way to the edge of the phone. These features enable OEMs to develop new UI concepts, revolutionising the way users interact with their smartphones.

The mXT336T supports up to 10 touches with wake-up gesture libraries and calibration recovery to enable robust touch performance and excellent noise immunity for today’s after-market chargers in extremely noisy environments.

“Atmel’s single-layer on-cell solution is the first in the industry to deliver touch performance through patented sensor designs and innovative software algorithms,” said Binay Bajaj, Sr. Director of Touch Marketing, Atmel. “The borderless nubia Z9 design is a testament to our dedicated engineering team to provide the best human interface solution on mobile devices. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration with nubia and teaming together on more products with sleek, innovative designs using Atmel maXTouch solutions.”

“We selected Atmel’s innovative single-layer on-cell maXTouch solution to enable our first borderless smartphone design,” commented Ni Fei, CEO of the nubia brand. “Atmel’s adaptive sensing and edge-sensing technology enable the innovative edge keys and gestures in our flagship nubia handset.”