Fingerprint Cards AB announced that the company's biometric Match-on-Chip PC solution is integrated in the Asus Expertbook B5 laptop. This is the first Asus Windows PC product that integrates Fingerprints' Match-on-Chip solution, which is on Microsoft's approved vendor list (AVL) for Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security. In Match-on-Chip solutions, the users' biometric data is stored on a separate MCU.

This offers higher security than the so-called Match-on-Host systems, where biometric authentication usually occurs in the computer's CPU. While Fingerprints offers both varieties, The company expects Match-on-Chip to continue growing at the expense of Match-on-Host. Match-on-Chip solutions have a higher average selling price (ASP) and currently account for the main part of addressable market in the PC area.

Fingerprints' capacitive sensor solution for PCs, in combination with tailored software and algorithm, perform fast fingerprint matching in line with the highest security standards while optimizing user convenience.