When you think about cherry, you think of Cherry MX switch or fruit. I am talking about today’s former, as the company behind the world’s most famous mechanical switch tells me that it is in the ‘new era’ with its latest, Cherry Eye. Mechanical, moving one side.
Cherry IK Analog is induced switches and, in the computer, in 2025, while talking to Cherry Global Product Manager, Gunner Shirk, I have been told that they are more reliable, flexible and somehow cheaper than mechanics.
“So if you have a TMR or old -breed hall -impact switches, you need a sensor to read the signal, and these sensors make these solutions very expensive,” says Cherry’s shirk.
“So our technology works without a sensor.”
How does it do? They Work? I am ahead of you, asking the shark just that moment.
“It uses a very basic electronic ingredient, called comparative. And at the same time, all work burden is mainly done on the keyboard by MCU (microckonular), and the cost goes to the level where the switch is cheaper than our MX switch.”
This means no magnet, only metal, and “contact lace” activities.
Cherry’s MX switch is a leading entity in the gaming and wide keyboard industry, and there is no doubt that the scale economies have been doing great work in favor of Cherry after he piles them for many years, which is why this cost analysis for IK is amazing. Shirk says that in addition to cost savings, these switches have more.
These switches also have “high life, because you no longer have rubbing on the mechanical contact system. It feels better because when the mechanical switch is pressed, the contact system presses the side against the trunk when it goes down, it is now over.”
“We are even more free to use in what material we want to use. Why? Because MX needs to avoid the heat of the soldering process.”
Shirk says a material that can be used for a smooth switch is pum, or poly oxymicin, which was not possible on traditional mechanical switches due to heat.
Cherry is planning a massive market with EI. This is not rather than excited/gaming classes, but here is not really a target here. If they are really cheap as much as Cherry, we can see that the membrane office board eventually kicks the bucket in favor of less valuable induction boards, which will be a great improvement. Although I suspect the membrane will rotate like a cockroach after Apocalypse.
As far as gaming on IK, Cherry did not completely rejected it, it is not paying much attention to the market. All of this comes to make the MCU so powerful that gaming features such as rapid trigger and fully make the Analog Activation possible.
I asked Shirk whether the high -speed trigger or analog features, such as the voting 80 HE or the NZXT function is found on Elite (to take some names), will be possible with the IK. What he said is:
“In terms of performance, now it is up to you (keyboard manufacturers) which MCU do you want to use on your keyboard. The MCU processing power is so high, maybe you can work more than that. The switch itself is dumb. The switch does not care so much.”
It is worth noting that Cherry has also announced a new MK series of magnetic switches that are actually designed for gaming, and it is likely that more matches for the current hall impact switches. And some more mechanical switches, so they are not yet dead. So there are more options.
“We say in Cherry, after 30 years of MX, this is the old age. Our combustion engine. This is a new era.”
No surprise, really, considering that these allegedly have half the cost to make a mechanical switch, which I still can’t really do my head. In fact, how much of this cost will be needed to return to PCB and MCU is not yet fully clear, but clearly, for any really analog features, MCU will have a associated cost to be beflowing, reliable and beyond feeling.
One thing I had to ask Cherry when I was with him, his first wave of induction switches, what happened to the MX multi -point, which was announced and as part of Dicke’s booth, was shown in computer 2024, then disappeared from the scene. Later the same year, Ducky issued a keyboard with an induction switch, but these were particularly Not Cherry’s MX Multi -point switch, but Ducky’s own. You can read more about the people involved in my Dicky One X review.
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“The first switch we did, which we relied on a very specific sensor, which made the whole solution very expensive. Also, the switch results, such as the initial activity point, was not so impressive. So it has improved a lot of improvement through the new design.”
“We have (IK) switch, and more precision, and pre -activation, has a lot of, better response curves.”
It all seems to be better on many keyboards, a long -standing switch. I hope Cherry will stick to her. It would also be something to look at in gaming space, if a manufacturer tries to benefit from these benefits for any gaming board, but it certainly looks like we will remain with the hall effect.
I also talked about voting in computer, the company is the first company to popularize the Analog gaming keyboard, and it also said: It is sticking to the hallway for now. Then there is no rush to hop on the next thing for gaming, but someone is sure to try.
Cherry wants to hope for something new, regardless of: Cherry Ic “falls 2025”.
