DIGITIMES Research, fingerprint recognition has become a basic high-end smart phone to go (2017) Although the Apple flagship iPhone X model does not use fingerprint sensor (fingerprint sensor), use face recognition Way, but the global smart phone with fingerprint sensor shipments still reach 920 million, the penetration rate of about 64%, with the estimated growth in shipments of smart phones and mobile payments and other needs of heating up in 2020 equipped with fingerprint sensor smart phones Shipments of up to 1.25 billion, the penetration rate will exceed 75%.
DIGITIMES Research pointed out that Fingerprint Cards (FPC), a fingerprint sensor manufacturer, is a start-up in Sweden. Due to the business opportunities arising from fingerprint sensing technology, revenue of the company increased by more than 650 times in 2013 compared with that in 2013. Rapid growth also attracted the United States, Investors from mainland China and Taiwan are actively investing. With a sharp decline in ASP and a rise in the number of competitors, FPC's revenue in FY17 is forecast to have dropped by 53% from FY16 to FY17, and operating profit margin has also dropped from 31% And 39% to an estimated 6-7% in 2017. In contrast, Goodix turned its main product to fingerprint sensor in 2016, with its revenue in 2016 up more than 4 times from 2013, and 2017 Although many manufacturers have joined the war, but annual revenue estimates can still grow 25%, from the revenue point of view beyond the FPC, becoming the world's largest supplier of fingerprint sensor. DIGITIMES Research said that as fingerprint identification is the most Cost-effective biometric identification, growth opportunities for smart card applications such as tablet PCs, laptops, automobiles, government and corporate access control, and even payment-enabled smart card applications are not only in mobile phones.
