Goodix is a Chinese supplier of fingerprint and touch technology and was showing its modules for a range of smartphone applications. Wins have included:
- Xiaomi Mix2 – rear ceramic sensor
- Nokia 6 – front mounted glass covered sensor
- ZTE Axon 7 Max – live fingerprint detection
- LG Stylus 3 – rear fingerprint with hard coating
- Huawei P10 and Matebook X
- Vivo X20 – rear with hard coating
- Oppo R11s – rear ceramic covered
- Amazon Echo
Other brands that the company works with include Lenovo and Asus (it’s in the ZenBook Flip S). It is also in the Amazon Echo Show and Echo Dot.
What does Goodix do that others don’t that enables this success, we asked? The company told us that it uses sine wave driving, rather than square wave driving, which would reduce the noise and higher frequences inherent in square waves.
A feature that we had not previously spotted and which is supported by Goodix in the Matebook X, and also on the Dell XPS 13 is a combined fingerprint and power button. This means that the system is both powered on and logged in in a single touch.
Goodix supplies the power/login button on this Huawei system. Image:Meko
The company has a full range of biometric controllers and at the show, the company, was showing its latest controllers for pens and supports tilt functions on apps that support Windows Ink technology. The pens have batteries, rather than using wireless power and the pen supports pressure. The company also makes touch pad controllers.
Last year, Goodix highlighted new technology that puts a fingerprint detector underneath a transparent OLED, its ‘Invisible Fingerprint Sensor’ (IFS). The company told us this year that its technology is ‘close’ to commercialisation and would be rolling out at large scale although staff wouldn’t give us names!
The Goodix IFS sits under an OLED. Image:Meko
