AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), the world’s leading provider of fingerprint sensors and solutions, established a global record today with the shipment of its 25 millionth sensor. AuthenTec has shipped over 15 million sensors in the past 16 months, compared to the prior 10 million sensors shipped since the Company’s founding in 1998.  AuthenTec’s fingerprint sensors, based on the Company’s patented TruePrint^® technology, bring Power of Touch^® features including security, convenience, personalization and navigation to over 17 million PCs and more than 7 million cell phones worldwide. 

To celebrate this milestone, AuthenTec is sponsoring an international Big Ideas contest for the 25 best application ideas that take advantage of AuthenTec’s award-winning fingerprint sensors. Millions of people each day draw upon the Power of Touch to eliminate passwords, protect their phones and laptops from theft, shop online, or open their front door. The uses and applications in which fingerprint sensors can make life better are almost endless.  The 25 winning ideas will be selected by a panel of technology enthusiasts, and winners will be awarded prizes which include the first place prize of an AuthenTec-enabled laptop PC and a $25 gift card for the 24 runners up.  Big Ideas may be submitted until November 30, 2007 at the contest Web site, www.25Mandcounting.com.