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Qualcomm Teases in-Screen Fingerprint Sensors for 2018 Phones

Jun 29, 2017

Qualcomm is building fingerprint sensors that will work via our phone screens and arrive as early as Summer 2018, the company announced at MWC Shanghai today. The series of next-gen sensors will adopt ultrasonic technology to scan ...

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iPhone, Android Phone Designs Could Be Revamped by New Fingerprint Scanner

Jun 29, 2017

Smartphones launched as soon as next year could feature a bezel-free design thanks to new fingerprint scanning technology announced by Qualcomm. The US chipmaker has long supplied components to major phone makers like Apple and Samsung, ...

Tags: Fingerprint Scanner, Smartphones

Latest iPhone 8 Schematic Leak Turned Into Render - and It Looks Just as Bad

Apr 24, 2017

This week we saw yet another purported iPhone 8 leak in the form of some schematics which appeared to show the handset’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the rear of the device. It didn't make for the sleekest-looking design we've ...

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Unity Opto Adjusting LED Lighting Product Mix

Apr 14, 2017

LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology is decreasing production for light bulbs and increasing that for more profitable lamps, with the proportion of lighting revenues for the former to slip to 20% and the latter to rise to ...

Tags: LED packaging, LED lamp

Samsung's Latest Ploy Could Make Future Galaxy Smartphones Cheaper

Nov 11, 2016

In its war against Apple et al, Samsung is dragging the production of more and more smartphone components under its own banner. Samsung has been developing fingerprint sensor chips since last year, with a view to begin manufacturing the ...

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Taiwan Fingerprint Sensor Suppliers to Post Strong

Sep 17, 2016

Taiwan-based fingerprint sensor suppliers including Egis Technology (Egistec), Elan Microelectronics and FocalTech Systems are set to post brisk sales for the third quarter of 2016 buoyed by strong demand for smartphones, according to ...

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China's Share of Fingerprint Sensor Shipments up

Aug 26, 2016

Due to fast growing use of smartphone-based mobile payment services in the China market, both international and domestic vendors, including white-box ones, have adopted fingerprint recognition functions for their smartphones. Consequently, ...

Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, smartphone

Prices for Handset Peripheral Chips Falling

Aug 25, 2016

Prices for handset peripheral chips have started to fall, squeezing further profits generated from phones, according to industry sources. Peripheral ICs for handsets include power management ICs, radio-frequency (RF) chips, modem chips, ...

Tags: Handset Peripheral Chips, LCD driver

Moto G and Moto E Aren't for The Chop After All

Feb 7, 2016

Motorola has refuted reports that its Moto G and Moto E smartphone lines are to be culled. The company's Chinese owner, Lenovo, recently revealed that the Motorola brand was to be phased out, and that the American entity's phone range was ...

Tags: Motorola, Moto G, Moto E, smartphone

Apple's Alchemy Turns Sapphire Into US Manufacturing Jobs

Nov 5, 2015

The factory in Mesa, Arizona, had never been intended to house the manufacture of a gemstone. Ahead of the photovoltaics industry’s 2011-2012 meltdown, First Solar had built it with the aim of producing 280 MW worth of solar panels ...

Tags: Arizona, photovoltaics industry, Alchemy Turns Sapphire

Competition Looming for Fingerprint Sensor Market

Jan 26, 2015

The increasing number of suppliers of fingerprint identification sensors heralds keen competition in the sector's short-term future. Furthermore, the offering of integrated IC parts that combine LCD driver IC, touch-controller IC and ...

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Prices of Fingerprint Sensors Likely to Fall Below Us$5 in 2015

Jan 12, 2015

With China- and Taiwan-based suppliers eager to expand their presence, prices of fingerprint sensors are likely to fall below US$5 in 2015, according to industry sources. Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, FocalTech Systems, Egis ...

Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, Sensor

The Nexus 6 May Have Been Destined to Tout a Fingerprint Scanner

Dec 9, 2014

The Nexus 6 may have been destined to tout a fingerprint scanner, the Android source code has revealed. ArsTechnica dig some digging through the Android Open Source Project code for the Nexus 6, and discovered a commit removing ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Google

Sapphire Substrate Non-LED Applications Are Projected to Reach a 32% Share in 2014

May 28, 2014

Out of sapphire substrate non-LED applications, mobile devices have shown the strongest demand. Sapphire substrate non-LED applications are projected to reach a 32% share in 2014, with mobile device applications taking a 21% share, ...

Tags: LED applications, mobile devices

New iPhone 5s/5c Choose Sapphire Crystal to Create The Home Button and Fingerprint Sensors

Sep 12, 2013

The newest addition to the Apple family, the iPhone 5S/5C will be launched later this month. The addition of fingerprint recognition technology incorporating sapphire crystal has greatly benefitted substrate manufacturers. Crystal Applied ...

Tags: Fingerprint Recognition Technology

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