Mobile Payments, Security Lifting Smartphone Fingerprint Sensor Market, Says IHS
Fingerprint sensors are an expected feature in smartphones, driven by biometric security and mobile payments, said an IHS report Monday. The sensors are also being used more in tablets and notebook PCs, said IHS. The iPhone leads the segment in…
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fingerprint sensors, with 499 million shipped in 2015, up from 316 million in 2014, said IHS. Growth will continue each year until 2020, when fingerprint sensor shipments will peak at 1.6 billion units, it said. Apple, which acquired fingerprint-sensor maker AuthenTec in 2012, led the fingerprint sensor market in 2015 on the popularity of the iPhone 6s and iPads, said analyst Jamie Fox.