Editing Alps Alpine (section)

==Business divisions==
'''Alps Automotive''' division focuses on provision of custom products and modules, including control panels and steering modules, for specific vehicle models, and components compatible with any vehicle.<ref name="Alps Business Areas">{{cite web |url=http://www.alps.com/e/company/business_area.html |title=Company Business Areas |access-date=April 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419015032/http://www.alps.com/e/company/business_area.html |archive-date=April 19, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

'''Alps Home and Mobile''' divisions focuses on provision of switches, potentiometers, sensors, and other components through to multi-input devices like touch panels and GlidePoint™ to home, mobile and PC markets. Alps Electric focuses on human-machine and machine-machine interfaces for home appliances, mobile devices and PCs.<ref name="Alps Business Areas"/>

'''Alps Industry, Healthcare & Energy''' divisions focuses on provision of a wide variety of products, including sensors, power inductors, switches and communication modules, to industry, healthcare and energy markets.<ref name="Alps Business Areas"/>

Alps touchpad hardware is developed and manufactured by the [[Cirque Corporation]], which they acquired in 2003;<ref name="Cirque Corporation website">{{cite web |url=http://www.cirque.com/company/alpselectric.aspx |title=Cirque Corporation Website: Alps Electric Co. |access-date=April 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627211616/http://www.cirque.com/company/alpselectric.aspx |archive-date=June 27, 2014 }}</ref>  however, the parent company continues to write their own drivers. Their drivers are [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] certified. They are mostly found in [[Sony]], [[Toshiba]] and [[Dell]] [[laptop|notebooks]], as well as the [[OLPC XO-1]]. They also manufacture keyboards for Apple computers, including the original Macintosh and the first [[iMac]].