In the wake of the technology's deployment on the Samsung Galaxy Note7, East Asian firms expect iris recognition to become a much more widely spread feature on new smartphone models.Sources at the chip firm Xintec said orders for iris recognition chips will boost 2017 revenues, reports DigiTimes.Xintec, an affiliate of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) specializes in packaging services for CMOS image sensors as well as MEMS and fingerprint sensors, and will start fulfilling new orders for iris-recognition solutions in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to a Chinese-language MoneyDJ.com report.Xintec is expected to enter mass production for iris-recognition chips in 2017, which will boost the backend house's revenues for the year, the report cited market watchers as saying. New orders for iris-recognition sensors include those for the chips that will be embedded in the 2017 series of iPhone, the watchers were also quoted in the report.Xintec has responded saying the company does not comment on particular products and customer orders.In other news, Xintec disclosed in an August 5 filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) that the company will spend a total of US$16.77 million from August 6 to March 31, 2017 converting its 8-inch wafer-level packaging lines. The proposed capacity adjustment is to respond to customer demand.IR LED chips can be used for facial recognition and biometric sensing such as physiological measurement functions in smart wearables, the sources told DigiTImes in a separate article entitled: “Smartphone vendors likely to follow Samsung to adopt IR LED-based iris recognition”.

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