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Infineon Introduces 32-Bit Smart Card Controller with 400 kBytes Flexible EEPROM

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 in Library

Customer Programmable Memory Shortens Time-to-Market for New Applications to One-Third

Munich, Germany / Paris, France - November 18, 2003 - Today at the “Cartes 2003” show in Paris, Infineon Technologies, the world’s number one supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for chip cards, announced the availability of new members of its 32-bit security controller 88 family. Featuring highly flexible on-chip memory of as much as 400 kBytes of configurable EEPROM, the new security controllers allow smart card manufacturers to ship products with new customized software configurations - equivalent to former customer-specific ROM-mask based products - in just two weeks.

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