It seems like most of the smartphones and feature phones that we see lately feature touchscreen of one sort or another. Some touchscreens are capacitive and some are resistive and what you can use to control the screen, be it a finger or a stylus, depends on the type.

Samsung has unveiled the world’s first mobile display driver IC with embedded touch screen control functionality. The driver controls a capacitive touchscreen that supports soft touch and multi-touch functionality.

The new driver integrates the controller and display driver into a slimmer profile that allows designers to build a slimmer device. Samsung didn’t comment on a date when we can expect to see the new display driver IC in a device.

[via Samsung]