[Reader-list] New Report Just Published China IC Card and Smart Card Industry Report, 2007-2008 - 186

[Taha Mehmood]

Dear All

More industry reports.

No rhetoric just plain,cold money-

Excerpts from the summary of a report posted on a website-

1. In 2007, Infieon had the best sales performance in global IC card
chip Market, followed by NXP, Samsung, Atmel, Renesas and ST
Microelectronics, they are all together had 92.1% shares of global IC
card chip market.

2. The global SIM card shipment has reached 2.6 billion cards in 2007,
up 27% year-on-year; the overall percentage of 3G SIM cards was 14%.
According to SIM Alliance, the market scale of SIM card will break 3
billion by the end of 2008, considering the great demand from mobile
operators in developing countries. For example, China Mobile, the
global largest telecom operator, had ordered more than 280 million
cards in the first three quarters of 2007, rising 60% compared to the
same period in 2006. Moreover, the shipment of mobile phone card was
650 million in china in the year of 2007. India market also enjoyed a
dramatically growth, its mobile phone card shipment had increased to
194 million cards in 2007 from 123 million cards in 2006, rising 58%
year-on-year; Latin America, Mid East and Africa were also achieved a
great market growth in 2007.

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Taha

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New Report Just Published China IC Card and Smart Card Industry
Report, 2007-2008 (Second Edition)


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31.07.2009 11:07:02
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report related to the Electronic Component and Semiconductor industry
is available in its catalogue.

More information regarding this report:China IC Card and Smart Card
Industry Report, 2007-2008 (Second Edition)

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The report


has made depth analysis and forecast of China IC card market, focus on
the six key global IC chip suppliers, and nearly 50 manufacturers in
china of IC card chip, COS, card packaging and IC card device.

The global SIM card shipment has reached 2.6 billion cards in 2007, up
27% year-on-year; the overall percentage of 3G SIM cards was 14%.
According to SIM Alliance, the market scale of SIM card will break 3
billion by the end of 2008, considering the great demand from mobile
operators in developing countries. For example, China Mobile, the
global largest telecom operator, had ordered more than 280 million
cards in the first three quarters of 2007, rising 60% compared to the
same period in 2006. Moreover, the shipment of mobile phone card was
650 million in china in the year of 2007. India market also enjoyed a
dramatically growth, its mobile phone card shipment had increased to
194 million cards in 2007 from 123 million cards in 2006, rising 58%
year-on-year; Latin America, Mid East and Africa were also achieved a
great market growth in 2007.

>From the figure above, it can be seen that the total IC card shipment
keeps a growth; meanwhile, the shipment ratio of CPU card keeps an
increase as well, however, the memory card shipment declines. The
growth of memory card shipment in 2006 and 2007 was mainly attributed
to second generation ID card project and bus card project in china,
about 300 million ID cards and 30 million bus cards were issued
respectively during the period. According to the Eurosmart, the
shipment of CPU card will reach as many as 4.205 billion by the end of
2008.

According to China Information Industry Trade Association, IC card
shipment in china was 1.08 billion cards in 2005, up 91.8%
year-on-year; and the shipment value increased 11.1% to RMB 5.607
billion. In 2006, the shipment was 1.676 billion cards, rising 55.2%
year-on-year; and the shipment value rose 32.4% to RMB 7.426 billion.
The shipment reached 1.993 billion cards in 2007, ascending 19%
compared to 2006; and the shipment value was RMB 8.165 billion, only
increased 9%, which was mainly due to the price drop, especially the
dramatic price drop of SIM cards.

Based on the information from China Information Industry Trade
Association, by the method of time series and taking the factors into
account like the second generation ID card project and EMV transfer
project of bank cards as well as the 2008 Olympic Game,
ResearchInChina estimated that IC card shipment in China will reach
2.02 billion cards by the end of 2008, and the shipment value will
reach RMB 9.21 billion.

In 2007, Infieon had the best sales performance in global IC card chip
Market, followed by NXP, Samsung, Atmel, Renesas and ST
Microelectronics, they are all together had 92.1% shares of global IC
card chip market.

During 2007-2008, the development of China IC card market is featured
as enhanced application in traditional sectors as well as continual
new applications. In addition, the application system has entered the
new updating period (such as social insurance CPU card and non-contact
CPU card).