"He said this is a form of laying-on-hands
So put your hands on the screens now --
Touch the screen! Touch the screen!
Heal! Heal! Heal!"
-- From "Jesus He Knows Me," by Genesis, 1991

Two years ago, Cypress Semiconductor (Nasdaq: CY) was left to dream of iPhone impersonators unleashing a wave of touchscreens across the technology landscape. Fast-forward to the present day, and touchscreen controllers from Cypress are shipping with every brand of smartphone from international champions like Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Samsung to hometown hero Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT). This market will keep Cypress on a healthy growth track for the foreseeable future.

Indeed, smartphone sales were hailed as a major business driver when Cypress reported much better first-quarter results than you would expect from normal seasonality. The consumer and computation division, where Cypress accounts for those controller sales, retreated 9% on a sequential basis to sales of $74.2 million -- but that's a jaw-dropping 43% above the year-ago figure. Cypress is nursing a backlog of orders where order bookings overshadow revenues billed by 34%, which shows continued strong demand for the company's products going forward.

Of course, Cypress isn't the only maker of touch-screen control chips. There are plenty of big, bad rivals like Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), Synaptics (Nasdaq: SYNA), and Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) -- but the fact that Cypress grows this division at breakneck speed despite all those powerful rivals speaks highly of the technology and the business sense you'll find there.

Great business should beget great returns, and Cypress has delivered 80% price gains over the last year to crush all the competitors I mentioned -- and the overall market. Do you believe, as I do, that the bulk of the touchscreen chip opportunity still remains untapped, and that the skyward chart climb will continue? Mosey on over to Motley Fool CAPS and vote for Cypress accordingly, dude.