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Synaptics Announces OmniPass Identity Management Software for Fingerprint TouchPad Solution

LAS VEGAS, Nov 18, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --

Synaptics(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA), a leader in touch pads and other human interface solutions for mobile computing and communications devices, today announced the introduction of OmniPass application software and OmniROM Preboot Authorization for its Fingerprint TouchPad, co-developed with Softex Incorporated. This identity management software allows end users to replace keyed passwords with fingerprint authentication, and can be used to access the system at start up, log on to the Windows operating system, network, and email, enter Web sites, unlock a screen saver or access any type of secure application. The software is bundled with Synaptics' Fingerprint TouchPad module, which combines Synaptics' leading TouchPad interface device with the AuthenTec EntrePad(TM) AES3500 fingerprint sensor, allowing Synaptics to offer notebook OEMs a complete integrated biometric security solution.

"OmniPass allows even novice computer users the convenience and security of biometric authentication without having to learn complicated software," said Francis Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer of Synaptics. "With OmniPass, Synaptics' integrated Fingerprint TouchPad module offers the first practical biometric solution for secure system access and password replacement." 

    OmniPass boasts convenient features:
    -- Enrollment Wizard guides the user through the easy, four-step
       enrollment process.
    -- Password Vault allows a user to replace numerous logons and passwords
       with a single fingerprint scan.
    -- Single Touch Log On allows the user to securely perform pre-boot and
       Windows authentication with a single touch of the finger. For added
       security, the file encryption feature enables users to selectively
       encrypt and decrypt files.
    -- Screen Saver Locking feature automatically locks the system after a
       user-specified period of system inactivity.
    -- OmniPass Control Center supplies tools that allow multiple users and
       user profiles and manages startup authorization options and security
       levels.

"Biometric devices offer consumers a convenient and robust method to authenticate themselves to their machines and the network," said Roger Kay, director of client computing at IDC. "You always carry your finger around with you and never lose it, and no one else can spoof that they're you."

About Synaptics Incorporated

Synaptics develops advanced interface solutions for products as diverse as notebook and desktop computers, mobile computing and communications devices, automotive applications and security solutions. Synaptics products include: TouchPad(TM), the industry standard notebook pointing device; ClearPad(TM), a capacitive touch screen solution; TouchStyk(TM), a modular capacitive pointing stick solution; Spiral(R), an inductive, proximity sensing pen input system; cPad(TM), an LCD TouchPad; TouchScreen, a capacitive touch solution for large displays; and QuickStroke(R), a proprietary Chinese handwriting recognition software. More information about Synaptics can be found on the World Wide Web at www.synaptics.com.

About Softex Incorporated

Founded in 1992, Softex Incorporated is a leading supplier of system level software for personal computers and workstations. Softex has been named as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States by Inc. Magazine. Softex system software products have shipped on millions of personal computers from most of the top-tier OEM manufacturers. Headquartered in Austin, TX, Softex also provides custom system software development services to the computer industry.

For more information on products and services, contact: Softex, Inc. at: 9300 Jollyville Road, Austin, TX 78759. Phone: 512-452-8836 FAX: 512-795-8702 or visit the company's website at: www.softexinc.com.

This press release contains "forward-looking" statements about Synaptics, as that term is defined under the federal securities laws. Synaptics intends such forward-looking statements to be subject to the safe-harbor created by those laws. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, expectations of Synaptics success in the PC market with the Fingerprint TouchPad product. Synaptics cautions that these statements are qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (a) market demand for Synaptics products (b) market demand for OEM products using Synaptics products, and (c) the failure of Synaptics products and OEM products to deliver commercially acceptable performance, and (d) other risks as identified from time to time in Synaptics' SEC reports, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and Annual Reports on Form 10-K. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Synaptics on the date hereof, and Synaptics assumes no obligation to update such statements.

CONTACT: Amanda Mena of Synaptics Incorporated, +1-408-434-0110, ext. 178, or amena@synaptics.com; or Jennifer Ackman of Edelman, +1-650-429-2758, or jennifer.ackman@edelman.com, for Synaptics Incorporated. 

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SOURCE Synaptics Incorporated 

Amanda Mena of Synaptics Incorporated, +1-408-434-0110,
ext. 178, or amena@synaptics.com; or Jennifer Ackman of Edelman,
+1-650-429-2758, or jennifer.ackman@edelman.com, for Synaptics Incorporated

http://www.softexinc.com

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