Smartphones with fingerprint scanner sensors on screen or in-display fingerprints are predicted to be easier to find next year.
The reason, the research firm Sigmaintell predicts, the number of sensor shipments will increase to 100 million units.
Over the past year, there are indeed many vendors that have planted the sensors into middle-class cellphone screens to their high-end production. Call it the Vivo X20 Plus UD that first introduced this technology.
Then followed by another flagship from Vivo, namely Vivo X21 and Vivo Nex. Do not want to miss, other Chinese vendors follow along like the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition, the Meizu 16 duo, and the Huawei Porsche.
This year alone, according to Sigmaintell, global shipping of fingerprint in-display sensors is estimated to have reached 42 million units. Sigmaintell predicts, the sensor in the screen will be in demand in 2019 thanks to a Korean smartphone vendor.
No vendor is mentioned, but rumors say Samsung will begin to immerse the in-display fingerprint on the Samsung Galaxy S10 which is the Galaxy's special anniversary edition. Samsung is also called to immerse the technology into the Galaxy A 2019 series.
Because the in-display fingerprint is attached to the OLED panel, it certainly affects the sale of the panel itself. Compiled by KompasTekno from Digitimes, Sunday (08/12/2018), OLED panel shipments in China are predicted to touch 100 million units by 2018.
Mostly bought by Chinese vendors such as Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo. Panel manufacturers based in China such as Tianma Microelectronics and Visionox are not as popular as Samsung, which is also a smartphone screen manufacturer.
But with the increasing adoption of OLED panels by Chinese mobile vendors, it is not impossible that they can improve the quality of their products in the future.
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