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BIO-key partner IDEX announces the first design win for its new mobile touch fingerprint sensor.

GlobeNewswire 8-12-2014

An Asian second tier mobile OEM has selected IDEX for its smartphone flagship model with a launch date scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2014. In line with industry practice, the OEM wishes to remain undisclosed at this stage.

"IDEX has been focussing on commercialising our best-in-class fingerprint sensor technology and leveraging our strong IP for the mobile mass market. We have recently launched and sampled mobile device customers with our swipe sensor and first generation touch sensors and these sensors have received very high interest. Our products are now being evaluated by several mobile OEMs," said Dr. Hemant Mardia, CEO of IDEX. "IDEX is seeing strong demand for small area touch sensor solutions to implement into new flagship mobile device programmes. OEMs are focussed on the user experience afforded by small touch sensors. This design win represents the first commercial selection of IDEX sensors for a smartphone program and is a very important milestone in our business progression," he added.

To support these products into commercial volumes, IDEX has implemented a high-volume manufacturing and supply capability with its partner CrucialTec, who is a leading established fingerprint sensor module integrator for the mobile device industry.

Note: A design win is the decision by an OEM device vendor to incorporate an IDEX sensor component or technology in a product development for a commercial model or models. The IDEX sensor solution is scheduled to be included in the product providing the customer proceeds to launch the device in the market.
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Remember this from March 2014:

IDEX and BIO-key offer a combined solution for secure user identification, leveraging IDEX's best in class fingerprint sensors, a new generation of powerful recognition algorithms, together with proven BIO-key secure multifactor authentication software. The combined solution and IP creates the potential for significant value-added services to be developed with market-leading customers," stated Dr. Hemant Mardia, CEO of IDEX.