SHARP PIONEERS THE BIG CHIP

Japan's Smart Microelectronics boasts that is 1-megabytes flash memory chip is the first such chip used in an actual smart card rollout.

Besides high memory capacity and contactless interfaces accessible to all the applications. Cards with the 1MB chip have already been deployed in the field in some multiapplication projects, notes Sharp.

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