Synaptics is a touchpad original equipment manufacturer provider. Synaptics is located in San Jose, California and was founded in 1986 by Carver Mead and Federico Faggin. As of 2005, the CEO is Francis Lee (businessman).

Synaptics provides many features in their touchpad drivers for free, including many advanced programming abilities. Their drivers will work with all their touchpads (which are usually incorporated by notebook computer makers), and will also provide some programmability for normal mice. Features include variable scrolling areas, corner tap areas which act as virtual buttons, and the ability to start any computer application or perform a computer keyboard sequence from a button, whether real or virtual. This means any of their products have up to six buttons . Their drivers are Microsoft Windows.

Synaptics is publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange with the ticker symbol SYNA.

The company is responsible for the control wheel on the iPod and iPod mini and the touchpads found on later Creative Zen devices.

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