Last year there was only one smartphone with a fingerprint reader - this was Apple iPhone 5S. In February this year, appeared model of Galaxy S5 Samsung, and later fingerprint appeared in the smartphone HTC One Max. The last two models use the platform of Synaptics, which in 2011 led by the former CEO of ATI, Rick Bergman . The company rose to Synaptics touchpad (touchpads) for laptops. Fingerprint sensors for smart phones open up new horizons . And Synaptics hopes to not miss their chance.
Golden Dream Rick Bergman, admits in an interview with CNet, this accommodation is a fingerprint reader in the area of the display. Such decisions will appear in a couple of years, not before. There are many technological problems that requires to solve. However, the agenda is to popularize conventional fingerprint sensors placed below the display on the power button. Synaptics Company assure that at the next February Mobile World Congress event will showcase a lot of smart phones with fingerprint sensor. This case will be truly massive. Coupled with biometric passports it opens wide the way for population control.
Synaptics also note that the company continues to improve the fingerprint scanners. Necessary to increase the response time of the platform to the device to recognize the host without delay.