Smart cards certain to approach importance of DRAMs in industry
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Smart cards will become nearly as significant as DRAMs in the electronics business by the year 2000. The number of smart cards, also called IC cards, distributed around the world, is expected to reach 3.5 billion in 2000, the same number of DRAM units that will be released in the world market in the same year. Smart cards' ICs, whose worldwide market of 3 billion yen is expected to reach 25 billion yen in 2000, remains primarily destined for Europe, the region that accounts for 70% of all smart cards issued in 1997.
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World: Smart cards will become nearly as significant as DRAMs in the electronics business by the year 2000
Publication Name: Office Equipment & Products
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 0387-5245
Year: 1998
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Established in Europe, smart cards poised to span globe
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The worldwide use of smart cards is expected to increase quickly with the coming of the new millenium. The technology, introduced sometime in 1988, is receiving renewed impetus with the latest advances in digital information and computer networks that has provided a practical use for the cards on a large scale. The cards, which is being used extensively in Europe, is currently undergoing its first implementation in North America and Japan where it is starting out as better versions of the present telephone cards.
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World: The use of smart cards is expected to increase quickly with the coming of the new millenium
Publication Name: Office Equipment & Products
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 0387-5245
Year: 1998
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