Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (Japanese: アルプス電気株式会社, Hepburn: Arupusu Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, producing electronic devices, including switches, potentiometers, sensors, encoders and touchpads.
The Alps Electric Group has R&D, production and sales bases located in Japan and around the globe—in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Greater China.
[4] Since its founding, Alps Electric has supplied around 40,000 types of electronic components to over 2,000 manufacturers of home appliances, mobile devices, automobiles and industrial equipment worldwide.
Alps Electric focuses on human-machine and machine-machine interfaces for home appliances, mobile devices and PCs.
[9] Alps touchpad hardware is developed and manufactured by the Cirque Corporation, which they acquired in 2003;[10] however, the parent company continues to write their own drivers.