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ABI Research: 7.95 billion smart cards shipped in 2012
ABI Research “Smart Card & Secure ICs Research Service” estimates that in 2012, 7.95 billion smart cards and 7.99 billion IC’s shipped—a rise of 9.4% and 12.0%, respectively YoY. IC revenues hit a new high, with NFC RF and secure elements providing a more established proportion of IC revenues which totaled US$ 2.69 billion (EUR 2.0 billion) in 2012.
In terms of overall IC market shares, NXP moved to the number one position for revenues. Samsung maintained the number one position for units shipped. Infineon has maintained its number one position for the smart card market (excluding NFC and embedded security).
Transparency anticipates US$ 7.9 billion smart card market by 2018.
Transparency Market Research (TMR), a US-based market intelligence company providing business research reports and consulting services, just published “Smart Card Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, And Forecast, 2012 – 2018.”
According to Transparency the global smart card market was valued at US$ 4.5 billion (EUR 3.4 billion) in 2011 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.7%. The market is expected to reach US$ 7.9 billion (EUR 6.0 billion) by 2018. The telecommunication sector is the largest revenue generator for the smart card market, contributing about 50% of the revenue.
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) market opportunity to represent over 570 million security solutions according to Smart Insights Report
Intelling, a consultancy specializing in secure transactions, publishes a new Smart Insights Report: “Smart authentication to tackle BYOD issues” that delivers information and forecasts about security issues and solutions triggered by employee-owned devices being used for work. This Smart Insights Report brings an analysis of solutions and business forecasts for secure solutions to the BYOD market on a global basis.