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Hitachi Introduces Sonys Contactless Smart Card Technology FeliCa |
Tokyo, JapanJune 5, 2002Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today announced
the introduction of FeliCa Technology*1 developed
by Sony Corporation (TSE:6758) for contactless smart card. Accrodingly,
Hitachi will develop the Operating System using FeliCa Technology for
its microcomputer to be built in smart cards and will ship such microcomputer
in December 2002.
In recent years, microcomputer built-in smart cards has been adopted
and used in various fields such as GSM-SIM*2
cards and W-CDMA-UIM*3 cards in communication
field, credit cards and cash cards in financial field, electronic
transportation ticket and ETC*4 cards in transportation
field. Contactless smart card system using FeliCa technology has been used for electronic transportation ticket of railroads and buses in domestic and overseas market. It has also been widespread used as a small amount payment card for stores, and also for ID cards. On the other hand, Hitachi has commercialized "AE-3 Series" with
8-bit CPU core and "AE-4 Series" with 16-bit CPU core as a microcomputer
for smart card, and received high reputation for the adoption of high
performance, high security, and high reliability in financial field,
communication field, and especially for GSM-SIM card for cellular
phone. In future, introduction of FeliCa technology will expand Hitachi's
product line-ups satisfying the needs from financial and communication
fields to transportation and distribution fields including built-in
Dual-way chip installing both contact and contactless interface.
"FeliCa" is registered trademark of Sony Corporation About Hitachi |
Information contained in this news release is current as of the date of the press announcement, but may be subject to change without prior notice. |
WRITTEN BY Corporate Communications Division |