SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., the leading manufacturer of advanced smart card IC solutions, provides a full lineup of high performance smart card technology in mobile phones, Java cards, electronic passports, banking cards, transportation cards and e-commerce applications.

SAMSUNG Electronics started the Smart Card IC business in 1993, and now has become a leading player in the industry through seventeen year's rapid development.

SAMSUNG successfully developed first the world's hightest-density 512KB embedded EEPROM smart card IC in 2005 and 2MB embedded Flash smart card IC in 2006. This product is also the industry's first to utilize 0.13um/0.11um process technology to enable higher memory density on a smaller chip size.

SAMSUNG also developed 1GB embedded NAND Flash Super SIM card IC(S-SIM™), which incorporates NAND flash memory into the SIM card by utilizing SiP technology, and provides better smart card solution for the next generation mobile handset market.

These newly developed smart card ICs demonstrated the strong R&D capability of SAMSUNG Electronics, and further consolidated SAMSUNG's leading position in the industry.