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SIMカード

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General description

Mobile communications is one of the fast growing applications within the smart card industry, and the next generation of SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) cards and UICCs (Universal IC Cards) will feature a variety of additional customer services.

Background information

SIM cards are your smart silicon key to mobile communications.

The increased use of mobile phones in everyday life will continue to enhance mobility, with new services such as on-line banking and trading, ticket reservations, ordering food deliveries, internet access, weather reports and all different kind of location-based and personalized services. These additional services/developments are adding to the requirements on highly secure ICs to provide additional memory, highest performance, flexibility and full interoperability to SIM and UICC cards.

Products

NXP offers a complete portfolio of smart card ICs for mobile communications applications - from native 2G SIM cards up to high performance interoperable Java Cards for 2G+ and 3G applications.

The WE family of ICs (P8WE6017, P8WE6032, P8WE6033) are ideally suited and widely used as GSM SIM card ICs in GSM 2G and 2G+ applications. Enhancing this concept with its new SmartMX family, fully compatible with the WE products, NXP now offers the highest performance controllers in this segment.

NXP's SmartXA ICs easily fulfil the needs of extended 2G+ applications and interoperable Java-SIM cards that are paving the way to 3G.

For extended 3G applications, NXP's 32-bit HiPerSmart platform is the right choice for combining consumer and communications demands.

Customer benefits

NXP chip card ICs provide:

  • The most comprehensive, technologically advanced solutions for all your SIM/USIM/RUIM needs
  • Easiest, fastest, convenient, most secure access to any service anywhere at any time
  • Leading edge security ensuring complete freedom and access from your mobile device to any global network.