Along with social development and industry matures, the semiconductor market in many areas of focus are from infrastructure/Central Office to the user side, the access control (Accesscontrol) market.
Access control market hotspots is no longer the traditional access control, attendance, building intercom, safe Cabinet, and is built around consumers carry mobile phones, laptops and mobile storage products, smart cards, electronic cards, electronic passports, and other applications. In this new development, biometrics and NFC/RFID are two key-driven technology.
Portable application to light portable fingerprint identification market
PC, mobile phone and mobile storage, various electronic products have become an everyday part of life and work, we use a large number of storage and transmission of important business and personal information, may involve personal privacy, bank account information, and corporate business secrets, to protect the security of such information becomes more urgent.
Past the usual way by setting a password to restrict devices, applications and files accessed practices disadvantage apparent, may each have dozens of various electronic products and account password, remember that they often exhausting, and biometric technology is the use of human biometric identity authentication, using very simple, convenient and safe, as technology progress and cost reduction, their use is more and more popular, the most typical is the fingerprint recognition.
2007 global biometric industry revenues will reach $ 3 billion, is used for access control by fingerprint recognition 25.3%.
International Biometric Group (IBG) in early 2007, released a report that in 2007 the global biometric industry revenues will reach $ 3 billion, projected 2012 growth to 74 billion.
The report shows, mainly for Justice's automated fingerprint identification and on-site scanning system (AFIS/Live-Scan) will account for the 2007 biometrics market 33.6%, used for access control by fingerprint recognition 25.3%, fingerprint recognition totals 58.9%. Other techniques include facial recognition (12.9%), iris recognition (5.1%), and voice recognition (3.2%) and vein recognition (3.0%).
The Center for research institutions shuiqingmu China further explained that as the fingerprint sensor (Fingerprintsensor) in size, cost (price reduced from $ 15 to $ 5), as well as accuracy and other technology advances, fingerprint identification product has been removed from the traditional time and attendance, access control, safe Cabinet and other fields extend to mobile phone, PC and peripherals, and other shipments in large areas of consumer electronics.
Applied to the fingerprint lock, attendance and access control system is the traditional optical fingerprint sensor and semiconductor one-touch-type fingerprint sensor, their market stable growth. And kindling consumer electronic fingerprint recognition application is the rapid development in recent years a new type of sliding/scratch-type fingerprint sensor, this sensor chip's main suppliers have AuthenTec, UPEK, Symwave, Atmel, Atrua FingerPrintCard, LighTuning and etc.
SMIC technology (Symwave) co., Ltd. Manager of analog circuit design Khanh said the bear from the sliding fingerprint sensor works when fingers slip out, the use of a simple sensor unit linear array collection fingerprint information, compared with conventional fingerprint sensor, it has the advantage of small size, cost, and low power consumption, particularly suitable for portable applications.
Sliding-type fingerprint sensor in 2003 ~ occurs around 2004, 2005 ~ 2006 perfect and start a lot into the laptop/phone merchant growth in 2007.
Shuiqingmu China Research Center said the 2005 introduced fingerprint laptop manufacturers have nearly 20 companies, covering all major laptop manufacturers, the original IBM PC sector was also issued fingerprint notebooks all biometric companies worldwide as the most recent biological recognition areas important event, in 2006, almost all laptop brands have launched a fingerprint notebooks, especially in the field of high-end business computer in almost become the standard.
The desktop also began to focus on fingerprint recognition, June 2007-hand SMIC publication of Tsinghua tongfang new Super Yang series PC is the launch of fingerprint recognition PC start, the future will have more of a fingerprint desktop, notebook product launch.
This is also reflected in the fingerprint sensor chip supplier performance.
Not long ago AuthenTec announced that the 2007 Q2 its fingerprint sensor chip shipments more than 300 million, exceeded its 2005 annual shipments. At the end of July 2007, the cumulative shipments exceeded 2,000 million, of which over the past year for shipments exceeding 1,000 million. This is mainly because of the strong PC market customer demand, AuthenTec fingerprint sensor is already in the top 10 global PC manufacturers for more than 200 types. The other is mobile, in its 2,000 million cumulative shipments of more than 700 million used mobile phones.
Benefit from a portable fingerprint recognition the strong growth of the market, at the end of June this year AuthenTec in successfully listed on the NASDAQ, another vendor UPEK is listing, SMIC has recently received a $ 12 million investment, 1,200 for next phase of growth.
Currently AuthenTec and UPEK is a portable, the two main fingerprint sensor chip suppliers, monthly shipments totaled approximately $ 200 million.
While the early focus
Mobile storage market SMIC will focus turned to the PC market, there is already a major supplier of desktop PC, using their fingerprint sensor notebook also began shipping. SMIC in 2004 launched by the end of the sliding type CMOS fingerprint sensor SW6888, main advantages is the low power consumption and high reliability.
Peter said, the bear from notebooks, compared to desktop PCs and mobile storage market shipments smaller, they are very sensitive to price, and the fingerprint is relatively high-end applications.
He explained that the desktop PC mainly take fingerprint keyboard, the keyboard has been very cheap; in addition, this years Flash prices very quickly, making the comparison of fingerprint flash drive.
The current increase in fingerprint recognition feature about 50 Yuan, in order to promote the application of these low-cost, SMIC scheme next year cost is half the existing scheme of new programmes.
For fingerprint hard disk and fingerprint Flash application, SMIC respectively and saipulasi and xinbang microelectronics both back-end controller manufacturers push full programme together.
NFC electronic payment and fingerprint recognition "result" mobile phone application
Relative to the PC and peripherals market, mobile phone market is undoubtedly more prospects, SMIC is and several mobile phone design company active cooperation.
Bear from Kyung also revealed that SMIC will be launched an improved version of SW6888, it remains a common chip, but due to back-end processor speed will decrease will be more suitable for mobile phones. He explained that the acquisition data SW6888 is very fast, fast signal capture, but the disadvantage is that occupy the back-end processors more resources, new chip based backend processor power automatic control fingerprint data rate. He stressed that: "while other vendors can also reduce acquisition data rate, but we were the first company to achieve Adaptive variable data rate for manufacturers. ”
The bear from the celebration that apart from lower-cost, smaller size and power consumption, future product development direction is in two parts: one is to continue to optimize the sliding fingerprint recognition sensor software and algorithm, as compared to the already very mature traditional optical sensor, it is still a new technology, new features; the second is different for different application requirements, the introduction of different products, such as a cell phone that much of the product.
AuthenTec and in so doing, it separately for PC and peripherals, cell phones and the three traditional access control application area has launched a series of products.
Their latest products for the mobile phone has been designed into AES1710 some smart phones, especially NFC mobile phone lock/unlock, mobile phone, the protection of sensitive information; licensing mobile commerce and mobile banking transactions; quick start frequently used applications; alternative mobile site features such as user name and password.
BenoitMakowka: identity control and NFC mobile phone application combining the future hotspots.
In fact, fingerprint recognition and electronic payment two technologies are mobile application "heyday" and promote each other.
Atmel company security microcontrollers programme market and application Director BenoitMakowka said: "because the NFC technology, we see identity control and mobile phone application together. This is similar to mobile banking, NFC technology, you can imagine some security access control application stored in the (U) SIM card. ”
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