Germany taps NXP for national ID smart card chips SecuObs

- Germany taps NXP for national ID smart card chips SecuObs - L'observatoire de la sécurite internet - Site d'informations professionnelles francophone sur la sécurité informatique
NXP Semiconductors announced that its SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen to power the new German contactless National Identity card. The German government has selected NXP as the supplier of an inlay solution containing a SmartMX chip, packaged in an ultra-thin module. Issuance of German contactless ID cards, which will replace the current paper-based IDs, will start in November. More than 60 million cards are expected to be rolled out over the next ten years.