Product category: Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: Spansion
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 February 2006
Flash-based chips to enable SIM card
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New secure high-capacity SIM card chips will enable manufacturers to deliver new solutions for distributing mobile content, securing delivery of applications and protecting digital rights.
Spansion is to develop a new class of secure high-capacity SIM card chips, enabling SIM card manufacturers to deliver new solutions for managing distribution of mobile content, securing delivery of applications and protecting digital rights management (DRM) Spansion is developing the first integrated solution that combines MirrorBit ORNAND products at 90nm with M-Systems' cryptography, logic and Flash file system technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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