Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 February 2002
Philips plays its
cards right with Gemplus
Philips Semiconductors is to supply its advanced HiPerSmart product family for a large part of the next generation of Gemplus 32bit smart cards
Philips Semiconductors has entered into an agreement with Gemplus Card International to supply its advanced HiPerSmart product family for a large part of the next generation of Gemplus 32bit smart cards. This new generation of cards, featuring open operating systems, will support advanced, secure and high performance applications and services including 3G wireless communications, mobile banking and online trading.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 February 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Based on SmartMIPS architecture, Philips Semiconductors' HiPerSmart computing platform will provide low power, high performance chip solutions enabling Gemplus to develop ground breaking, multi-application products for the next generation of smart cards.
"Philips Semiconductors' partnership with Gemplus marks an important stage in the evolution of the smart card market in terms of performance, security and memory capabilities", said Reinhard Kalla, general manager for chip cards at Philips Semiconductors.
"As an integral part of our roadmap, HiPerSmart highlights Philips Semiconductors' unrivalled position as the leading provider of highly secure and flexible smart card IC solutions and demonstrates our ability to combine advanced expertise in security, cryptography, flexibility and nonvolatile storage with leading CPU architectures".
The 32bit HiPerSmart computing platform will provide improved computing power - as required by interpreter-based languages and multi-application operating systems -alongside larger memory addressing performances.
This architecture provides instructions to support cryptographic algorithms, such as DES, AES, ECC and RSA, leading to a more flexible implementation.
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Benefiting from Gemplus' and Philips Semiconductors' expertise in smart card technology, this innovative architecture will pave the way for the development of the Universal IC Card (UICC) and the Universal Secure Identification Module (USIM).
USIM will be as important to 3G applications as SIM has been to GSM and will enable multiple applications to coexist on both the UICC and the network.
"Our work on designing a leading-edge card operating system will be largely enabled by HiPerSmart, the Philips 32bit computing platform based on SmartMIPSTM architecture.
Entering into this agreement, Gemplus recognizes that the technical leadership of Philips, as well as its expertise in security implementation will leverage the effectiveness of the SmartMIPS CPU core.
The combination of the cryptographic performances enabled by this architecture, together with the silicon technology from Philips Semiconductors, will allow Gemplus to reinforce its leading position in the smart card market".
said Jean-Luc Ledys, director of Silicon Technologies at Gemplus.
"Gemplus is committed to improving the potential of smart cards through the combination of innovative hardware and software, and will push this architecture to become a de facto standard for high-end PKI and non-PKI multi-application cards".
Philips Semiconductors' 32bit HiPerSmart is manufactured on 0.18um CMOS and will be available at the end of 2002.
Its introduction will complement the company's existing portfolio of chip solutions for smart cards, which include contactless hard-wired high-security 8 and 16bit smart card controller ICs and dual interface smart card controller solutions.
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