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Industry | Touchpad, Touchscreen, Secure touchscreen |
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Genre | Capacitive Touch Solutions |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | GlidePoint, GlideTouch, GlidePath |
Owner | Alps Electric |
Website | www |
Cirque Corporation is an American company which developed and commercialized the first successful capacitive touchpad, now widely used in notebook computers. Cirque develops and sells a variety of touch input products, both in original equipment manufacturer and end-user retail form. Cirque was founded in 1991 by George E. Gerpheide, PhD, and James L. O'Callaghan, to commercialize the GlidePoint technology invented in the 1980s by Gerpheide.