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2024

Emerging Haptic Actuators to Disrupt the Market, Says IDTechEx

Haptics might fly under the radar, but they form a major industry that offers serious user experience benefits to consumers. IDTechEx forecasts a US$7.1 billion market for haptic technology in 2035, with much of the growth in this market being fueled by the adoption of haptics in new classes of device.

Automotive Haptics to Be a Multibillion-Dollar Market by 2035

In 2024, the largest market for haptics is in smartphones, but as the smartphone market stagnates, the industry is looking towards automotive interiors as the major opportunity for the next decade.

Haptics 2025-2035: Technologies, Markets, Players

IDTechEx Report: Sam Dale

Boréas Technologies

Boréas Technologies is a fabless Canadian semiconductor company supplying low-power drivers for piezoelectric actuation and sensing. Haptics are the primary commercial use-case to date, with micro-pumps for applications including mobile device cooling expected to be important in the near-future.

2021

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IDTechEx interviewed Simon Chaput and Stuart Nixdorff of Boréas Technologies at the time of their launch of a new reference design for haptics in wearables. This profile describes that launch and other company updates.

Immersion Corporation

IDTechEx spoke to John Griffin and Linda Quach, VP Products & Marketing and Director of Marketing respectively at Immersion. They presented their updated corporate deck and we had a wider discussion about the state of the haptics industry and the evolving position of Immersion within it.

2020

Boréas Technologies

IDTechEx caught up with Simon Chaput, President of Boréas Technologies at their booth on the Canadian pavilion at the LVCC South Hall at CES 2020.

2019

Cambridge Mechatronics

IDTechEx caught up with Dr Marc Scholz from Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd. at the IDTechEx Show. They were presenting their latest progress with SMA-based haptic actuators.

Haptics at CES 2019

As the largest consumer technology event in the world, haptics always has a prominent place within CES. This short article includes summaries of the various conversations which IDTechEx had on the subject of haptics at CES 2019.

2018

Boréas Technologies breathe new life into piezoelectric haptics

IDTechEx spoke to Boréas Technologies' Founder and CEO Simon Chaput about their product and their ambitions to disrupt the haptics market today.

Boréas Technologies

IDTechEx interviewed Simon Chaput, Founder and CEO of Boréas Technologies Inc.. They are a fabless semiconductor company commercializing low-power drivers for piezoelectric haptics. They have begun sampling to customers and are launching development kits from October 2018.