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NXP pips Infineon to First position
NXP and Gemalto are the highest ranked smart card and IC vendors within ABI Research’s latest government, healthcare and citizen ID Competitive Assessment.
The assessment consists of full year 2011 and first half 2012 market shares and two vendor matrices, one for secure ICs and the other smart card vendors.
Gemalto was the clear winner within the smart card vendor matrix, 8 points ahead of second place. The IC vendor matrix was hotly contested with only 1.3 points separating first and second place. NXP just pipped Infineon to first position, through a better overall implementation score and leading market share. This category also measured global presence/reach, breadth of services offered, influence, and contract delivery.
Although NXP ranked first overall it was Infineon that was awarded the highest score for innovation driven by the following individual factors:
- Its Integrity guard security solution which consists of two CPU’s which constantly check each other for irregularities to further reduce risk of compromise.
- Migration to solid flash, as an additional security barrier.
- Very high bitrate contactless solutions, allowing larger memory capacity and faster transaction speeds.