IDEMIA
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Idemia is a French multinational technical company headquartered in Courbevoie, France. It provides identity-related security services, and sells facial recognition and other biometric identification
Example of a Visa Debit card with IDEMIA chip
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A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card, is a card used to control access to a resource. It is typically a plastic credit card-sized card with an embedded integrated circuit chip. Many sma
IDEMIA
…Idemia Type SAS Industry Security, Identity management, Criminal justice, Border control, Banking, Telecoms, Access control, Public safety, Smart card Headquarters Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France Key people Pierre Barrial (CEO) Products Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems, Facial recognition…
Finnish national identity card
One of the first smart card prototypes, created by its inventor Roland Moreno around 1975. The chip has not yet been miniaturized. On this prototype, one can see how each pin of the microchip (center) is connected to the exterior world by a copper connector.
4 by 4 mm silicon chip in a SIM card, which was peeled open. Note the thin gold bonding wires and the regular, rectangular digital-memory areas.
Contact-type smart cards may have many different contact pad layouts, such as these SIMs.