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1-7 Yukigaya-otsuka-cho<br> Ota , Tokyo , Japan <br> 〒 145-8501
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Electronics devices
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() produces
Electronic Device s, including
Touchpad s. Alps is a
Multinational Corporation , headquartered in
Tokyo ,
Japan . The nearest rail station to the headquarters is Yukigaya-otsuka station on the Tokyu Ikegami line. The company was established in
1948 . As of
2004 , the CEO is
Masataka Kataoka . Alps is also well-known for the
Alpine brand of
Car Audio .
Alps licenses their touchpad hardware from
Cirque Corporation , but write their own drivers. Their drivers are
Windows certified. They all have simple features such as edge
Scrolling , but no programmability. They are mostly found in
Sony Notebooks . They also manufacture keyboards for Apple computers, including the original Macintosh and the first iMac.
They also created
Printers , but have since dropped support of them.