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IMS Research has been publishing smart card market reports since 1996 and has
just completed research on its 2008 Edition. This edition presents market
forecasts from 2007 to 2013 for the smart card installed base, volumes of
smart cards shipped and volumes & values of smart card ICs shipped.
The report breaks down the market by:
- Application (e.g. SIM, banking, conditional access, transport, multi-
application, etc)
- Country (15 country splits provided)
- Interface (i.e. contacted, contactless)
- Type (i.e. memory or microcontroller)
- Core bit-width
- Memory size
- Form factor (e.g. card, token, secure SD, SIM plug-in)
In addition to these market breakdowns a number of key issues are explored.
These include examining to what extent NFC & mobile TV will prevent further
price erosion in the SIM card market, which countries will drive smart card
use in the health/government sector, which countries will have large chip and
pin/EVM rollouts, the influence of China and Chinese suppliers, the impact of
IT security on the smart card market.
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