AuthenTec Opens New Office, Expands Technical Team in Japan

Business Wire,  July 13, 2008  

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New Sales and Application Center Enables AuthenTec to Address Growing Demand for Fingerprint Sensors

MELBOURNE, Fla. and TOKYO -- AuthenTec (NASDAQ:AUTH), the world's leading provider of fingerprint sensors and solutions, announced that it is expanding operations in Asia with the opening of a new sales office and application center in Tokyo, Japan. The new office and application staff expansion in Tokyo will enhance AuthenTec's customer support and allow the Company to respond to the growing demand for fingerprint sensors. AuthenTec has had a sales office and technical center in Japan since 2005, and its fingerprint sensor sales in Japan have nearly doubled from 2004 to 2007.

Japan has been a key region supporting the rapid deployment of fingerprint sensor-enabled cell phones, PCs and other consumer electronics. More than 20 million PCs use an AuthenTec fingerprint sensor for convenient security and the Company is a sensor supplier to the majority of PC manufacturers in Japan. Moreover, nearly 9 million cell phones in Japan include an AuthenTec sensor to support m-commerce, online banking and for securing the device in the event of loss or theft.

"Our new office and application support center in Tokyo will give AuthenTec better access to customers and enhanced resources to address the growing opportunity for our portfolio of products in Japan," said Kengo Kobayashi, President of AuthenTec K.K. "With an expanded technical staff and a new location in the business center of Tokyo, AuthenTec looks forward to offering enhanced support to the world's leading OEMs operating and based in Japan including Casio-Hitachi Mobile, Fujitsu, JRC, Kyocera, Lenovo, Mitsubishi, NEC, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba."

AuthenTec will offer fingerprint sensor sales, field applications engineering and technical support through its new Tokyo location at the following address:

White Akasaka Bldg. 5F

5-4-13 Akasaka

Minato-ku

Tokyo 107-0052

Phone: 03-5114-5688

FAX: 03-5114-5689

About AuthenTec

With more than 30 million sensors sold worldwide, AuthenTec is a world leader in providing fingerprint authentication sensors and solutions to the high-volume PC, wireless device, and access control markets. AuthenTec's award-winning sensors take full advantage of The Power of Touch[R] by utilizing the Company's patented TruePrint[R] technology to deliver the most convenient, reliable and cost-effective means available for enabling touch-powered features that extend beyond user authentication. The Company's customers include: Acer, ASUSTeK, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, HTC, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Samsung, and Toshiba, among others.

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