Arrow Electronics Announces Supply Channel Agreement with Ocular
April 03 2012 - 10:03AM
Business Wire
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today announced an agreement
with Ocular LCD, Inc. to serve as a distributor of Ocular’s
projected capacitive touch panel products in North America. Arrow
customers will have access to Ocular’s Crystal Touch line of touch
panels, which incorporates Atmel® maXTouch® technology, creating a
high-performance, smart interface that offers up to 16 simultaneous
touch points and can ignore unintended touches.
“As a current Atmel partner, it made sense for us to utilize
Arrow’s supply channel since they have a high level of technical
expertise with Atmel’s touch controller products,” said Joe
Fiamingo, president and chief executive officer of Ocular.
“Customers can now purchase a complete touch assembly with Ocular’s
projected capacitive sensor and Atmel’s touchscreen controller from
a leading provider of products, services and solutions.”
“We’ve had great success providing our customers with Atmel’s
leading-edge technology and we are anticipating new opportunities
in the capacitive touch panel market,” said Aiden Mitchell,
director of supplier marketing for Arrow Electronics. “The ability
to sell a touch sensor designed for the Atmel maXTouch controller
will give our customers a single source for projected capacitive
touch solutions.”
“Ocular’s Crystal Touch panels with maXTouch touchscreen
controllers provide a powerful solution for delivering true
multitouch function to a variety of applications,” said Jon
Kiachian, vice president of marketing for touch products at Atmel.
“The knowledge and expertise offered by Arrow, Ocular and Atmel
help pave the way for this emerging technology to expand into new
markets that can benefit from touch.”
Ocular products are readily available on
http://components.arrow.com/manufacturers/ocular/.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics (http://www.arrow.com) is a global provider of
products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users
of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow
serves as a supply channel partner for more than 120,000 original
equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial
customers through a global network of more than 390 locations in 52
countries.
About Ocular
Ocular LCD, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a leading
supplier of industrial touch panels and display products to the
embedded technology industry. Ocular’s innovative technologies
enable equipment manufacturers to quickly bring to market product
solutions with leading-edge, touch-enabled display capabilities. In
addition to products, Ocular’s extensive knowledge and 25 years of
experience allow the team to work closely with manufacturers to
design display capabilities that meet the unique requirements of
their applications, including the demands of extreme environments.
Ocular’s product realization services can combine customized
displays and true multitouch products into a fully integrated and
tested turnkey product. To learn more about Ocular, please visit
www.Ocularlcd.com.
About Atmel
Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the
design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch
solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and
radio frequency (RF) components.
Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property
(IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the
electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on
industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive
markets. More information is available at www.atmel.com
Atmel® and maXTouch® are registered trademarks of Atmel
Corporation or its subsidiaries.
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