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Multi-Touch Pioneer Stantum Opens U.S. Office
| Source: Stantum
BERKELEY, CA--(Marketwire - September 2, 2009) - Stantum (www.stantum.com), the Bordeaux,
France-based pioneering multi-touch technology provider, announced today it
has opened its first office in North America. Located in Berkeley, Calif.
(about 10 miles east of San Francisco and 45 minutes from Silicon Valley),
Stantum's U.S. office will enable the company to build new partnerships
with North American OEMs and touch-panel, display and silicon vendors, as
well as offer greater commercial and technical support.
"North America is a vitally important part of Stantum's global business
goals because it is a major market for developing gaming consoles, PCs,
smartphones, car navigation systems, touch panels and displays," said
Robert Pelissier, Stantum's vice president, sales & business development.
Since 2005, Stantum's successful deployment of multi-touch technology in
professional audio products has established its high robustness,
reliability, and solid intellectual property foundations. The company now
brings highly integrated and production-ready solutions to the market by
having its multi-touch technology licensed to leading semiconductor
companies.
"Stantum's multi-touch technology will be deployed in high-volume consumer
products by 2010," Pelissier added. "Throughout the world, many device
manufacturers and their vendors are currently evaluating Stantum patented
multi-touch technology for integration into their newest offerings. The
time is now ripe for establishing a presence in North America."
Heading Stantum's new U.S. office is Francois Jeanneau, director of sales &
business development, North America. With more than 15 years of technology
and international experience, Jeanneau brings a variety of sales, marketing
and business development skills to Stantum. Most recently, he was director
of sales for the Americas at UPEK, Inc., where he helped establish the
company's leadership position in the PC market for trusted fingerprint
biometric solutions. He has also held key marketing and management
positions at such companies as STMicroelectronics and PeopleSoft. Jeanneau
holds an engineering degree from ICAM France and an MBA from the University
of California, Berkeley.
"Because of its unmatched advantages, Stantum's unique multi-touch
technology promises to be a leading standard for mobile phones, mobile
Internet devices, game consoles and laptop computers," said Jeanneau. "I
am very excited to be bringing Stantum technology to the North American
market."
Stantum's technology portfolio offers true multi-touch interfaces that let
users simultaneously move an unlimited number of fingers, fingernails or
utensils such as styli on a screen. Fitting any form-factor, it enables
integrators to design extremely innovative multi-touch interfaces for their
own products, thus simplifying the development process and considerably
shortening a product's time-to-market.
More information is available at www.stantum.com or by email
(f.jeanneau@stantum.com).
About Stantum
Stantum has been the pioneering company in multi-touch display 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 (IP core, firmware and software) and associated
engineering and design services.