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UPEK Extends Fingerprint Solution Leadership With Over 70 Million Hardware and Software Products Deployed, UPEKLeads the Industry in Delivering Fingerprint-Based Identity ManagementSolutions for Consumers and Businesses

02/02/2010

Feb. 2, 2010 -- UPEK®, Inc., the world's leading supplier of fingerprint solutions for consumer, business, and government applications, today announced that as of the closing of 2009 the company had shipped over 20 million copies of its Protector Suite® identity-management application software to contribute to a grand total of over 70 million fingerprint products shipped, including application software, USB computer peripherals, secure processor ICs, and silicon fingerprint sensors. UPEK's solutions are used in PCs, mobile phones, and other devices for consumer, business, and government applications.

UPEK offers the most complete product line of biometric fingerprint solutions including convenient password management software, TouchChip® and TouchStrip® fingerprint sensors and modules for consumer and industrial electronics, the world's only government-certified silicon fingerprint sensors, and its Eikon® line of USB computer peripherals. UPEK's fingerprint solutions are also the most broadly deployed, with sensors and software being utilized for consumer, commercial, and government applications in laptops from most major PC manufacturers, a broad range of keyboards and computer peripherals, memory and storage devices, smart card readers, mobile phones and terminals, door locks and access control terminals, safes, payment services, and many other applications. UPEK's new product offerings, including its recently announced line of fingerprint touch controls for mobile phones, position the company to extend its leadership position to emerging growth segments like mobile and wireless.

"Managing identity is an ever-increasing challenge for both consumers and businesses in an on-line and connected world," commented Alan Kramer, UPEK founder, president, and COO. "UPEK was established nearly six years ago with the vision of delivering hardware-software solutions that give consumers, businesses, and governments the combination of convenience and security they need for managing and protecting their identity. Now having shipped over twenty million copies of Protector Suite application software and over fifty million fingerprint security devices, we are gratified to see that our products have clearly fulfilled a market need and our vision of hardware-software fingerprint solutions has set a new direction for our industry."

About UPEK
UPEK, Inc. is the global leader in providing fingerprint solutions that help consumers, businesses, and public agencies manage identities conveniently and securely. UPEK authentication hardware and software are integrated into laptops from the world's top five largest PC makers, as well as USB flash drives, external hard disk drives, and mobile phones from leading manufacturers. UPEK's ecosystem of over 100 hardware and software partners enables strong authentication solutions for market verticals including healthcare, banking, education, and government. UPEK offers the only silicon-based fingerprint sensor that is FIPS 201 certified for authentication of millions of US government employees and contractors. UPEK also provides consumer packaged goods including the CES award-winning Eikon Digital Privacy Manager, the only fingerprint reader on the market that supports PCs and Macs. UPEK products make your digital world safe and personal.

UPEK, the UPEK logo, TouchChip, TouchStrip, Eikon, and Protector Suite are registered trademarks or trademarks of UPEK, Inc. in the United States and other countries.