Samsung Electronics introduced a 90nm smart card IC with high data storage capacity for subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and mobile TV.
The advanced 90nm process technology has been first applied to a 288-kilobyte (KB) electrically erasable and programmable read only memory (EEPROM) embedded smart card IC with plans by the year end to introduce a flash embedded version.
Samsung also introduces two new lower-density versions; a 72KB- and a 144KB- embedded EEPROM SIM card IC in 90nm process technology.
Market research firm Frost & Sullivan expects the smart card market to reach US$ 4.3 billion this year and grow to US$ 7.6 billion by 2012 at an annual compound growth rate of 15 percent.
