Fingerprint recognition chip business opportunities surge

Following Apple's iPhone, iPad series products carrying fingerprint identification capabilities, Google camp also plans to follow up, although many chip makers are actively investing in fingerprint recognition chip market, but there are not many companies with actual shipping capacity, in the second half of 2014 The IC design industry is eager to announce the launch of a new generation of fingerprint identification chip solutions. However, terminal brand customers still seem to prefer to use international large-scale fingerprint identification chips. Cross-strait IC design companies have to eat this pie, and I am afraid they have to wait.

The IC design industry pointed out that since the end of 2013, MediaTek mobile phone chip platform personnel have been continuously searching for potential fingerprint identification chip partners around the world. They have visited 10 chip developers, and they have not found a mature fingerprint identification chip solution. In the end, Huiding Technology, which has been invested and reinvested, will personally perform the operation, and will launch relevant fingerprint identification chips in the second half of 2014. It will be used in a new generation of mobile phone chip platforms and is expected to start shipments in the first half of 2015 as soon as possible.

As the technology of cross-strait fingerprint identification chips is not yet mature, many tactics have been adopted recently, including E-Lontech’s announcement of cooperation with Xingyou Technology, Duntai and IDEX strategic alliances, and Taiwan’s factory Aegis technology, joint ventures, and former equivalents. It is also optimistic that the fingerprint identification opportunity in 2015 will be used in a large number of Android mobile device products, and it is also actively seeking possible partners in the near future.

However, the fingerprint identification chip technology has a high threshold, involves too much digital, analogy and mixing technology, and even has to integrate software and firmware. Manufacturers need a certain learning curve. For example, AuthenTec, which has been acquired by Apple, has accumulated more than 10 years of experience. Although the IC design industry is interested in the business opportunities of the global fingerprint identification chip market, it must still have a learning curve to overcome the chip and module technology thresholds in order to promote its own chips to the market.

According to the IC design industry, the fingerprint identification function has become an important application for next-generation mobile device products. In addition, the unit cost of the module occupies a low total cost of the product, but it will help improve the user experience. In the second half of 2014, the new IC design industry's fingerprint identification Chips and modules are all new.

However, considering the patent, quality control and supply capacity considerations, it is expected that the 2015 global fingerprint identification chip business opportunities will still be mastered by international chip makers. Cross-Strait IC design industry may still need some time to prove the cost-effectiveness of their fingerprint identification chip solutions. Advantages have the opportunity to enter the brand supply chain.