Infineon teams with Intel for high-density (HD) SIM cards

After buddying up with IBM earlier this year on a 32-nanometer semiconductor, Infineon is now teaming with none other than Intel to produce high-density (HD) SIM cards. Announced today at the Cartes Trade Show in Paris, the agreement will spark a "strategic technology collaboration" which will see Infineon producing modular chip solutions while Intel offers up memory capacities from 4MB to 64MB. More specifically, a 32-bit security microcontroller will be provided by Infineon, while the partnership's other half throws in its "leading-edge flash memory technologies, capabilities and manufacturing." Apparently, the HD SIM will play nice with "data-intensive mobile applications, services and over-the-air downloads" which are likely to become more pervasive in the coming years, and current market research shows that these very devices will account for "six- to eight-percent of the total SIM card market in 2010." As for availability, look for samples to land in Q2 of next year, but don't expect 'em to be manufactured en masse until the first half of 2009.

[Via EETimes]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2007 9:48AM]

Don't Orange already do a 512MB sim card? I am sure they made it available in the HTC Oxygen?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2007 10:02AM]

Do they really have to give the abreviation "HD"... Next thing I know, someone will be gloating that their sim card has better quality because of HD.

HD - High Definition
HD - Hybrid Digital
HD - High Density

I should have copywrote the abreviation HD... man would I be rolling in the dough now.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2007 10:53AM]

Aha it was called MegaSIM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/16/megasim_launch/

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2007 12:15PM]

Looks like they both went to the same logo design people :o

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2007 12:16PM]

I'm pretty sure that Infineon logo is for the race track in California; not that this site is concerned with accuracy..

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/engadget-knocks-4-billion-of-apple-market-cap-on-bogus-iphone-email/

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2007 1:52PM]

No, the swooshy thing is our corporate logo. Rumor has it it's supposed to be a stylized wafer, but even here in HQ no one knows for sure :)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2007 10:15AM]

Did anyone not notice the 4mb - 64mb is it not to read 4gb-64gb?