Human interface firm Synaptics has credited strong sales in fingerprint authentication as the company announced a fiscal first-quarter profit of $23.8 million.Net revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 grew 66 percent over the comparable quarter last year to $470.0 million. Net revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 grew 66 percent over the comparable quarter last year to $470.0 million. Net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 was $23.8 million, or $0.62 per diluted share.”We are pleased to report record fiscal first quarter revenue and non-GAAP net income as healthy contributions from our fingerprint authentication and display driver products helped offset softness from our PC products,” stated Rick Bergman, President and CEO.”Synaptics is successfully executing across its expanding product roadmap, most recently with the inclusion of force sensing into our ClearPad touch offerings. We are experiencing increasing momentum for our fingerprint authentication and TDDI solutions, which we expect to be significant growth drivers in the second half of the fiscal year.”In September Synaptics reported that Lenovo has selected its Natural ID area touch fingerprint sensor, FS4202, for its latest smartphone, the Vibe P1.Meanwhile, a month earlier it announced that four of its fingerprint ID products, including arecently announced Match-in-Sensor solution, have officially been named FIDO Certified by the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance.

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