(iTers News) - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, China's foundry chip maker, has ramped up wafer productions for fingerprint sensors to supply its key customers like Fingerprint Cards AB.


Fingerprint sensor is the most crucial foundamental building block technologies for fingerprint identification and automatic collection. Fingerprint identification is considered as the safest  way to authenticate users'  identity for smartphones, tablets and other mobile computing products, Internet of Things (IoT), banks and mobile payments, computer peripherals, and physical access control. 



SMIC's fingerprint sensors manufacturing solution has complete independent IP design modules and delivers excellent yield rate and cost optimization. In addition, SMIC's wafer solutions for fingerprint sensor adopt a special coating protection process which enhances the surface coating's hardness to make it more solid and scratch resistant.


Fingerprint identification is one of the brightest markets, as users are increasingly wary of security breaches on their mobile banking and financial transactions with smartphones and tablet PCs.  According to IHS, there were 4.5 million smartphones shipped with integrated fingerprint sensors in 2012. Shipments of fingerprint sensors-embedded smartphones jumped 10 times to 45.7 million in 2013, and will reach 525 million units in 2017.


According to SMIC, Fingerprint Cards AB, or FPC, a provider of fingerprint sensors, has its product based on one of SMIC's stable and robust semiconductor process. FPC is dominating the fingerprint sensor-based personal identification market, as the chip maker has secured huge number of design-wins in 23 launched Android mobile devices, and its market sahre in the fixed space is in excess of 80% as it sells chips to all major Chinese banks. This is confirming FPC's leading position in the market for capacitive fingerprint sensor devices, as well as demonstrating SMIC's outstanding manufacturing and service capabilities to provide competitive products to customers and help them hit and enlarge their target market."


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