Norwegian fingerprint sensor manufacturer NEXT Biometrics has revealed that it needed to expand its engineer team in recent due to sales growth.”We have experienced a massive growth in customer projects and need to grow our organisation to serve these, ” said CEO Tore Etholm-Idsøe comments.”Over the last months engineers from Microsoft, ASIC designers from Cypress and FAE's from ST Micro and Qualcomm have joined NEXT. We are of course very pleased to see that NEXT is perceived as an attractive employer by top class technologists”.The company this week showcased a fingerprint sensor coupled with NXP Semiconductors' LPC54100 microcontroller at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.Etholm-Idsøe said,”we find that NXP with their focus on low-power and the NEXT offering is a natural match. NXP is a leading innovator in the microcontroller space and NEXT is excited to demonstrate a low-power, biometrics solution that enhances user convenience with mobile devices.”