Bringing the pen tech in-house will cost about $200 million say Israeli media sources



From Hexus:

Microsoft looks set to buy-in the technology behind the Surface Pro 3 stylus. Israel based N-trig are the makers in question and Israeli media has reported that a deal has been done where Microsoft acquires the stylus designer for a cool US$200 million. At the time of writing neither company has made any comment about the deal. The proposed deal will see N-trig's 190 strong workforce integrated into Microsoft Israel's R&D structure.

N-trig specialises in stylus computing and its technology is used in dozens of pen input based Windows systems. Of course the most well known of these is the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. Microsoft famously swapped out Wacom technology, as used in the Surface Pro (& Pro 2) for N-trig's system and many users are very pleased with the fast and accurate stylus input it affords. It seems like Microsoft liked the technology so much it has now bought the company - Remington style.

  Microsoft expected to buy Surface Pro 3 pen maker N-trig