ContactlessNews | NXP ships 25 million SmartMX chips to Feds

Monday, January 17, 2011

NXP is seeing demand for some of its contactless smart card chips. “We are pleased to share that we have now shipped more than 25 million SmartMX high-security chips for a variety of applications in U.S. government,” said James Sheire, manager of government programs at NXP during the Smart Card Alliance’s Smart Cards in Government Conference held November 16-19, 2010.

“NXP is also excited to see it’s secure smart card technology adopted in a variety of programs for increased security, reliability and convenience and especially new areas like cybersecurity,” Sheire continued.

Sheire also commented how federal contractors are adopting the credentials not only for access for contracting work, but also to upgrade and improve their own systems.

NXP helps Germany get ready for automated fare collection

NXP Semiconductors has been selected to take part in the implementation of Germany’s nationwide ticketing standard, VDV Kernapplikation (VDV-KA).

NXP’s SmartMX family of secure microcontrollers enables an interoperable public transport ticketing scheme. More than five million contactless card based on NXP’s SmartMX technology has been supplied to the cities of Berlin, Frankfurt and Hamburg in support of the e-Ticket Deutschland program.

More than 100 million Nigerians have no official identity

Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced on Wednesday at the 4th West Africa Information Communications Technology Congress 2012 that more than 100 million Nigerians lacked official identification in the country’s national identity database.

GPI receives multiple orders for RFID casino currency

Gaming Partners International announced that it has received three orders to supply casino chips and plaques totaling just under $4.7 million.

The company will produce approximately 700,000 custom Bourgogne et Grasset (B&G) premium casino chips for Venetian Macau Limited’s Sands Macau and Sands Cotai properties. GPI will also produce over 80,000 B&G RFID plaques to Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM)’s Grand Lisboa property.

MULTOS ships 100M cards in 2011

MULTOS technology providers saw a record breaking 2011 with over 100 million chips being delivered to customers in just one year, bringing the current MULTOS issuance total to well in excess of 300 million cards, reports MAOSCO Ltd., the Secretariat of The MULTOS Consortium.

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