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ETS 4.2 links to ETS 3.3: envoy's great attention to detail!!
bottom line: wave lost hp backing; wave lost infineon; wave has intel MBs, BUT intel's a bit player in the worldwide MB arena .... so, wave's task at hand is peddling it's open-source software until and IF if can make it to arrive the holy-grail of relatively high-margin services arena in 2007.
Dutton's a NON-EVENT
Snackman, $33K for a run "on the tape"!
Cyber-Security Competition, Armed Forces: Results in years past (4 running) have come out in May ... WOULDN'T IT ROCK IF WAVE'S TECH WON IT FOR WESTPOINT?!!!!!
"Waves' critical role" ACCORDING TO WHOM?! leap of faith in a CEO (SKS), who still hasn't much more to say than "really cool" ... not a personal attack on SKS, but most any company would've crashed and burned long ago, IF NOT FOR THE IP WITH THE NAME SPRAGUE ON IT ... as for business acumen, SKS has little or none, imo.
tampa, 6/7 YEARS LATER, SKS's is selling the same dream
RIGHT ON larry! SOME OF THE PRIVATE-INVESTOIR PEOPLE ASKING QUESTIONS ARE A GREAT REFLECTION OF WAVX SHAREHOLDER INTELLIGENCE!
tim, WHEN SKS states in public, specifically, Wave will benefit directly, by X%, from the projection X-OEM customer, THEN there's meaningful information. for now, it's just moer of the same noise.
SKS is bobbing & weaving, 'CAUSE HE SIMPLY HAS NOTHING OF MERIT TO SAY ABOUT THE FUTURE REGARDING WAVE REVENUE!!!
"signed a license agreement in the first quarter of 2005 with an embedded systems manufacturer to license the Wave TCG-enabled toolkit and KTM ES AD.
whatever. license agreements are framework. cash-in-hand pays salaries etc.
snack, DELL, Seagate, STMicro Intel and others will buy Wave's tech at a bargain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/solutions/en/security_solutions?c=us&cs=04&am...
NOT A SINGLE MENTION OR REFERENCE TO WAVE!... and, all the clamor here about Dell & Wave is nothing but EGG ALL OVER OUR COLLECTIVE FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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right, dig; SKS carrying daddy's torch's is sooo admireable... unless he tarnishes the sprague name by plowing through a $100 mil + only to leave shareholders with worthless paper... amazing how far a few "really cool"'s have gotten this guy -- must admit, SO FAR, LOOKS LIKE SKS MAY HAVE HOODWINKED ME TOO...
Snack, sellers > buyers = price drop... what don't you understand?
Snack, stealth accumulation, right?
cosign, years past, West Point competition (5 years runnning) results came out in early/mid May as i recall
Snack, you ARE the man ... master of all thinks obvious and all things Wave ... lest we forget, Microsoft has over 90% of the desktops worldwide AND the world of e-commerce WILL NOT blossom w/o 'softie's blessing
whatever Weby - dispel what you will, BUT WHEN YOU SUBMIT FACT DEMONSTRATING FINANCIAL COMMITMENT TO AND SUPPORT FOR WAVE'S SOLUTION(S), WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING TO DEBATE.... 'TILL THEN IT'S THE SAME OLD SONG & DANCE WITH NOTHING BUT SPECULATION.
bacteria, the NUT is: Microsoft has no CURRENT plan to develop a v1.2-compliant TSS for Longhorn .... delusionary thinking like that, bacteria, was part and parcel of many a co., that shriveled under the weight of 'softie when Microsoft decided it was time to do it the Microsoft-way.
JUST NKOW THAT IT'S WAVE'S IP THAT WILL CARRY WAVX -- IF THE IP'S NOT ENOUGH THEN GAME OVER. (i.e., all this other noise -- sign-on-line, TSS, CSP etc. etc. is just proof-of-concept stuff!!!....
oh, Weby?!... Trusted Computing requires LaGrande
LaGrande includes Wave
MSFT requires 1.2
when, and only WHEN ALL THREE (3) OF THOSE STATEMENTS use the verb "requires", will Wave's future be cemented.
That, sir, is what you apparently "don't get".
Unquestionably, "The hockey stick is in play."
Howvever, sir Weby, point us to one (1) irrefutable peice of evidence that Wave has imminent contracts and licensing fee payments in store.
call me doubting thomas -- or whatever else you may prefer -- but, it continues to be hilarious: the absolute certainty of wave's success bandied about here... and, yet NARY EVEN ONE (1) MAJOR PLAYER KNOCKING ON WAVE'S DOOR ASKING FOR A PEICE OF THE IMMINENT TIDAL-WAVE OF REVENUE (i.e., strategic investment, co-development contracts... anything with dollars explicited committed to Wave)...
no, sir Weby, you're absolutely right, "[you] don't get it" -- because the simple act remains: the hugely brewing trusted-client, TPM world is in progress and, yet, none of the major TCG players have offered any assistance to Wave, but for a nod to Brain Berger getting the TCG marketing position (somewhat belatedly)... WAVE'S LEFT TO IT'S OWN DEVICES... if only i listened to a friend of mine at intel 6 years ago -- he said: What are Wave's prospects for revenues?.... HINDSIGHT'S 20/20!... AND I ASK ANYONE HERE PROVIDE GUIDANCE AS TO WHAT WAVE'S PROSPECTS ARE NOW VERSUS 6 YEARS AGO?
ANYONE EVER CONSIDER?... each year Microsoft delays it Longhorn/NGSCB efforts -- i.e., which Apple CEO Steve Jobs described last week as "shamelessly" copying his company's Mac OS X operating system. "They can't even copy fast," Jobs said at his company's shareholder meeting. Indeed, many of the features that Gates demonstrated Monday have been a part of the Mac OS since it was released in March 2001. -- THE LESS IT CANABALIZES ITSELF!! WAVE WILL HAVE 3 MEASLY YEARS REMAINING TO FULLY CAPITALIZE ON IT'S PETER-METER IP!!!!!!!!!!!
expected in December 2006 [Longhorn] - WAVX may survive MAYBE.
incidentally barge, i hope i'm wrong - i doubt, however, we'll see wavx break single digits in '05 - nary a word about the class actions? doesn't this concern anyone? if they were not meritorious, as SKS alleged, they'd have been dismissed by now, i believe.
dismissal not have taken place, i suggest SKS & co. are buying time by "settling" in advance against future earnings ... and the vultures lay low until wave starts taking in cash, a percentage of which is already spoken for as settlement/expense related to the class-actions
WHAT DON'T YOU GET ?!! Longhorn/NGSCB simply takes it to the next level wherein all commercial applications for trusted-computed/web-services are able to work in the familiar Microsoft environment .... like it or not, the world waits for Microsoft's lead ... and, while the CPU/OS infrastructure's being built out en masse as we speak, TRULY SIGNIFICANT trusted-computed/web-services RELATED REVENUE STREAMS WILL NOT BEGIN MATERIALIZING UNTIL Longhorn/NGSCB IS LOADED AND WORKING WORLDWIDE
barge: "reason [you're] excited about Lagrande without Longhorn, is that it offers the decent possibility of mass deployment of Trusted Computing THIS YEAR!" -- sorry chap, while there'll likely be "mass deployment of Trusted Computing THIS YEAR", which is apparently well on it's way, truly significant Trusted Computing-related revenues (of the Qualcomm magnitude a few years back) WILL NOT MATERIALIZE UNTIL SOFTIE'S FULLY ON BOARD WITH LONGHORN .... sure legrande ushers in infrastructure more quickly, BUT COLD HARD CASH PAID TO WAVE SYSTEMS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL SIGNED CONTRACTS ARE IN HAND .... AND WHO'S GOING TO PAY FOR A YET UNPROVEN FRAMEWORK PROVIDING FOR THE OMNIPRESENT WEB-SERVICES (A LA HP'S e-SPEAK), UNTIL IT'S TESTED, UP AND RUNNING, which, incidentally, will require Longhorn for full realization of robust and complex web-services?!!!
as usual, barge, you tout a "decent possibility" of a rosy picture that just ain't realistic in the timeframe you suggest.
lugan, you're in the WRONG tree IF you're "into a strict, conservative, money management program" -- that's a funny one!!!!
orda, "it's so quiet" 'cause IT'S SO QUIET! ... nothing more nothing less. funny how people here attach such self-importance to what ocurrs on this or other comparable message boards .... if anything, this messge board (from raging-bull days) probably served moreso to lead SKS right into to the sites of the class-action vultures with which wave is now contending.
yeah, trust, i expect WAVX to persist under $1 for the foreseeable future .... that said, i'm the first to wish i am wrong. however, any "expectations" are baseless -- that is unless he/she who proffers said expectation can provide factual basis for it -- my factual basis? i have no basis for thinking WAVX will act differently, UNTIL NEWS GUIDES US IN WAYS OTHERWISE.
How to Be Your Own Publisher - MyPublish.... still a possible killer app [under a different name; i.e., if Wave's IP covers it] for WAVX?
April 24, 2005
NY Times
THE BOOK BUSINESS
How to Be Your Own Publisher
By SARAH GLAZER
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/books/review/24GLAZERL.html
When Amy Fisher finished writing her memoir about shooting her lover's wife, she told her agent not to send the manuscript to New York publishers. Instead, Fisher, who made headlines in 1992 as the 17-year-old ''Long Island Lolita,'' turned to iUniverse in Lincoln, Neb. The company charges authors several hundred dollars to convert a manuscript into a book and make it available for sale online.
Fisher's ''If I Knew Then,'' which came out in September, is probably the first sure-fire success to start out under the imprint of a so-called self-publishing company. (Other self-published books, notably ''The Celestine Prophecy'' and ''The Christmas Box,'' became best sellers, but their success was a surprise to the publishing industry.)
iUniverse is one of more than 100 ''author services'' companies in a fast-growing industry aimed primarily at writers who can't get the attention of traditional publishers. Earlier this month Amazon.com got into the act, announcing that it had acquired BookSurge, a printing company with a self-publishing division based in Charleston, S.C. BookSurge uses print-on-demand technology that makes it possible to guarantee a two-day turnaround to print a book, even if only one customer orders a copy. For the first time, print-on-demand companies are successfully positioning themselves as respectable alternatives to mainstream publishing and erasing the stigma of the old-fashioned vanity press. Some even make a case that they give authors an advantage -- from total control over the design, editing and publicity to a bigger share of the profits.
It was the issue of control that appealed to Amy Fisher and her co-author, Robbie Woliver, editor in chief of the weekly Long Island Press, where Fisher has a column. They were confident that the book would sell well; indeed it appeared on the New York Times paperback best-seller list on Oct. 24, if only for a week. ''We figured we might make more money doing it this way,'' says Woliver, who called the royalties ''significantly higher'' than traditional publishers', though he would not reveal the percentage. (In a departure, iUniverse did not charge a fee for producing the book.) But he also notes that Fisher was ''determined not to be sensationalized'' by the media, which she says presented a distorted picture of her as a promiscuous teenager (perhaps following the lead of prosecutors in the shooting case, who maintained she had been a call girl). She wanted to control every aspect of the advertising and media interviews, Woliver says. ''We knew that wasn't going to happen with a traditional publisher.''
Self-publishing companies like iUniverse have been growing rapidly in recent years, displacing old-style vanity presses and competing with the number of titles produced by traditional houses. AuthorHouse in Bloomington, Ind., which leads the pack with more than 23,000 titles, sold approximately one million volumes between 1997, when it started business, and 2002; in 2003 alone, it sold another million volumes, mostly through online retailers, according to the company. Amazon would have some catching up to do to get to those levels; on the other hand, since it has nearly 47 million customer accounts, the potential growth for its print-on-demand business is obviously enormous.
The difference between traditional vanity presses and modern print-on-demand publishing is essentially technology. Instead of expensive offset printing, which mainstream publishers use, print-on-demand relies on a glorified digital printer. The top three self-publishers -- AuthorHouse, iUniverse and Xlibris, based in Philadelphia -- all use the technology, and introduced a total of 11,906 new titles last year, according to R. R. Bowker's Books in Print database. By contrast, one of the few remaining old-style vanity presses, the 56-year-old Vantage Press in New York, produces between 300 and 600 titles a year.
Meanwhile, for as little as $459, iUniverse will turn a manuscript into a paperback with a custom cover design, provide an International Standard Book Number -- publishing's equivalent of an ID number to place the book in a central bibliographic database -- and make it available at Amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and other online retailers. (Vantage charges anywhere from $8,000 to $50,000 for a limited quantity of copies, some owned by the author and the rest warehoused by Vantage.)
''Publishing has been an arcane specialist skill under the control of a guild of people that are unique and different from anyone else,'' the founder and chief executive of Xlibris, John Feldcamp, says. ''Those skills have been so complicated they haven't been accessible to normal human beings. What's happening is all the technologies of publishing are becoming increasingly cheap and accessible,'' as almost every aspect of production, including design and printing, has gone digital.
''Companies like Random House and Simon & Schuster are in the process of investing in highly valuable properties. They want to find Deepak Chopra; they don't want to find a writer necessarily who has an audience of 10,000 people,'' Feldcamp says. Ultimately, he predicts, ''companies like us will support the lion's share of content out there,'' though probably not of best sellers, he concedes. The majority of books produced by self-publishers sell a few hundred copies at most.
Choosing to operate occasionally as a traditional publisher and offering better financial incentives, as iUniverse did recently for Fisher, ''isn't very hard'' for print-on-demand publishers, Feldcamp says, ''because they operate under a far more efficient set of economics than classic publishers.'' For example, after an initial offset printing of 30,000 copies, iUniverse has relied on print-on-demand to meet orders for Fisher's book as they come in. That means ''no excess inventory sitting in a warehouse, only to be remaindered,'' the company's chief executive, Susan Driscoll, says.
In today's world, where books are increasingly bought online, getting one's book into the central bibliographic database, known as BooksInPrint.com, is the cyberspace equivalent of getting published. The database is the primary source for major distributors like Ingram Book Group, whose listings in turn feed into the computerized offerings at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders.
With all this democratic activity, self-published authors have essentially become the bloggers of the publishing world, with approximately the same anarchic range in quality that you find on the Web. Indeed, companies like AuthorHouse and iUniverse say they will accept pretty much anything for publication. ''That's the big problem with self-publishing and the stigma associated with it,'' Driscoll admits.
Most bookstores are reluctant to stock self-published books -- as their authors are disappointed to discover -- because they carry the vanity press taint, they aren't returnable and they aren't discounted as much as traditional books. In addition, major newspapers, including The New York Times, won't review vanity press books.
Driscoll is trying to overcome these obstacles with iUniverse's ''Star'' program, which will select two or three books a month that have passed an internal editorial review and sold more than 500 copies apiece. ''Star'' books will be returnable and competitively discounted, Driscoll says, and she plans to send galleys to magazines and newspapers in hopes of getting review attention. The company also presents those books to buyers at Barnes & Noble, which owns a minority stake in iUniverse, for display and stocking in its stores.
But only about 150 titles have been chosen for this treatment out of the company's approximately 20,000 titles. Steve Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chief executive, cautions, ''If a writer would like to get a book into bookstores, iUniverse is not the right route.'' Only about half a dozen iUniverse books will be stocked in his stores at any one time, he estimates. At the same time, he says, ''we would like publishers to have their eye on iUniverse'' as a ''farm team'' for promising new authors.
In that regard, self-publishers can point to a few success stories. Natasha Munson, a single mother in Atlanta, recently received a $250,000 advance and a two-book contract from Hyperion after she published her first book through iUniverse in 1999 at a cost of $99. (Prices have risen since.) In May and June Hyperion will bring out both books, inspirational guides for African-American women. Munson says stores were ''skeptical'' of self-publishing and it was difficult to persuade them to stock ''Life Lessons for My Black Girls'' in 1999 (now called ''Life Lessons for My Sisters''). Instead she made sales by sending promotional postcards to black sororities and sending e-mail messages to book clubs.
Eventually, Munson sold more than 20,000 copies of the book. That impressed a New York literary agent, David Dunton, who contacted her after reading a magazine article about her last spring. Dunton says he normally views self-publishing as the ''land of last resort.'' But he adds that publishers these days are looking for appealing personalities like Munson who can promote their own books on the talk show circuit. ''It's not all about the writing anymore,'' he said. ''You have to look good and sound good.''
Unfortunately, aspiring writers eager to believe that a publisher has chosen them can also be led astray. Last year more than 130 writers petitioned the attorney general of Maryland and other government agencies to investigate PublishAmerica, a print-on-demand company in Frederick, Md., which describes itself as a ''traditional publishing company'' on its Web site.
The authors say they were duped when they signed contracts with the company, because it is actually a vanity press. In press accounts and in promotions to its writers, the company has maintained that it is highly selective. But Dee Power, an Arizona writer in the forefront of the petition campaign, questions that claim. She says PublishAmerica accepted a bogus manuscript from her that repeated the same 10 pages eight times and changed the main characters' names halfway through. She and other writers say they were shocked by the sloppy editing of their manuscripts and falsely led to believe that stores would stock their books. (The government agencies have so far declined to investigate.)
PublishAmerica does not charge a fee; it pays a ''symbolic, token $1 advance'' to most first-time authors, the company's president, Larry A. Clopper, told me. The irate authors contend that the way the company makes a profit is by demanding a list of 100 of the author's friends and family members, whom they bombard with order forms, and by persuading authors to buy books themselves. To that Clopper responds that most authors agree to provide the list, and that the largest source of the company's revenue comes from established booksellers. As for the company's selectivity, while he conceded that PublishAmerica accepts ''far more'' manuscripts than the traditional publishers, Clopper said, ''We reject them all the time because of poor quality.''
Another complaint the authors had was with the PublishAmerica contract, which gives the company exclusive rights to publish a book for seven years (in contrast to iUniverse, for example, whose contract permits an author to shift his book to another publisher at any time). Clopper now says that PublishAmerica is offering an amendment to the standard contract that will permit authors to publish elsewhere -- though they have to request it.
Such disputes aside, self-publishing has attracted the interest of some major publishers as well as booksellers. ''What's interesting is the capability of having micro-niches that are so small that publishers would not be interested in publishing them in the traditional way,'' says Richard Sarnoff, the president of Random House Ventures, which owns a minority stake in Xlibris. ''Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding,'' a best seller at iUniverse.com, might be a good example of that, not to mention ''Be Brief. Be Bright. Be Gone: Career Essentials for Pharmaceutical Representatives,'' which has sold more than 10,000 copies -- all online, according to David Currier, one of its co-authors.
Sometimes self-publishing offers a second chance. Laurie Notaro, a former columnist for The Arizona Republic, was turned down by more than 70 publishers when she sent out her first book, a collection of humor essays about life as a young single. So she turned to iUniverse. A literary agent saw an ad Notaro placed on Amazon.com, on the page for the ''Sweet Potato Queens'' series, which also appeals to a female audience. The agent took on Notaro and sold her collection to Villard, which had rejected the book on its initial rounds. Notaro's ''Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club'' reached No. 10 on the Times paperback best-seller list in 2002.
''New York houses miss out on a lot of books that have worked,'' says Notaro's agent, Jenny Bent of the Trident Media Group, who also represents the ''Sweet Potato Queens.'' ''I've had a fair amount of success selling self-published books.''
To some in the New York publishing world, self-published books still carry the stigma of the old vanity presses. But other editors say self-publishing can be a plus if an author has sold a healthy number of copies that way. Angelle Pilkington, an editor at Puffin, was impressed that one author, Charisse Richardson, had sold 10,000 copies of her first children's book, ''The Real Slam Dunk,'' through her own efforts. ''It was a very nice number and added some credibility when we got the manuscript,'' she says. Puffin's sister imprint Dial brought out the book, about two African-American children who get career advice from a basketball star, in February, and will publish a second children's book by Richardson in the fall.
Fireside and Touchstone, formerly paperback divisions of Simon & Schuster, have reissued a half-dozen self-published books successfully, according to Mark Gompertz, publisher of both houses. Most recently, Fireside brought out Matthew Kelly's inspirational book, ''The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day With Passion and Purpose,'' which sold 100,000 copies as a self-published book. Under the Fireside imprint it became a New York Times best seller.
In a retail world increasingly dominated by national bookstore chains, it's hard to sell books by new authors without a track record, according to Gompertz. ''I often say to these people, 'You should try self-publishing first, get yourself known on Web sites and start building an audience and sales; when you have it, come back, because then we can make the case that we can get you out in a big way.' ''
Some established authors have turned to self-publishing because they're unable to interest their publishers in a new genre. Piers Anthony, who is known for fantasy and science fiction titles, has published more than 15 books with Xlibris, either to release serious historical fiction or to make out-of-print books available. Joyce Maynard, William F. Buckley Jr. and Marlin Fitzwater, the former White House press secretary, are among the authors who have turned to self-publishing to bring their books back into print.
One New York literary agent, Harvey Klinger, recently advised a best-selling author to publish her latest novel with iUniverse after it was rejected by several New York houses. According to Klinger, publishers complained that Kathryn Harvey's ''Private Entrance'' -- which he describes as ''sexy suspense'' -- fit into neither the ''chick lit'' category nor the older woman's audience (sometimes called ''hen lit'').
''The self-publishing route has become a viable alternative for a lot of these authors who can't conveniently categorize what they're doing,'' Klinger says. With the trend toward publishers consolidating, the number of houses where authors can seek out bids is also diminishing, he notes. ''I think the growth of iUniverse and small-press publishing is a direct result.''
Some industry observers suggest that established authors and novices who aspire to commercial success will remain a small fraction of the self-publishing industry. At six of its Philadelphia-area stores, Borders has been offering a take-home self-publishing kit for $19.99 as an experiment. For between $299 and $598, customers can have a manuscript converted into a book by Xlibris, be listed on Amazon.com and get shelf space in Borders.
Michael Spinozzi, executive vice president of the Borders Group, notes that the future of self-publishing may be in altogether less commercial forms. ''People are looking to come away with 20 copies of something very personal and very important to them: a cookbook with all the recipes they've collected through their lives; capturing a sporting season or a major occasion,'' he says.
Indeed, someday you may be able to walk into your grocery store and convert your Christmas photos into an instant coffee-table book written in your own deathless prose, Xlibris's Feldcamp predicts. Almost anybody will be able to say, ''I published my book last week.''
Sarah Glazer last wrote for the Book Review in December about electronic books.
$10 mil INCOMING to WAVX: maybe next year, IF EVER
ABSOLUTELY kite: "If Intel was truly interested in helping and rewarding Wave for stellar IP and sweat, they would have done it already." -- CLEARLY, to date, intel's tech investment group viewed other investments to be more attractive, AND WAVE'S APPARENTLY NOT PROVIDED ANY BASIS FOR VIEWING WAVX IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT
sure barge, stick to your guns: HOWEVER true your assertions are -- and, i incidentally agree with you -- miracles aren't generally honored as payment of salaries, bonuses and/or utility bills .... ALBEIT, one may surmise that SKS & Co.'s salaries and bonuses stem from miraculous results?!... oh yeah, revenue?! clearly an irrelevant metric ... SKS & Co.'s performance is stellar by any measure .... right.
http://www.gi-de.com/portal/page?_pageid=44,64735&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Releasedate: 12-Apr-2005
Giesecke & Devrient and Wave Systems Announce Strategic Partnership
Security Solutions Combining Smart Card and Trusted Computing Software Technologies to be demonstrated at the CardTech/SecurTech Annual Conference April 12-14, 2005 in Las Vegas
http://www.gi-de.com/portal/page?_pageid=44,64735&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Releasedate: 07-Apr-2005
Giesecke & Devrient Wins Third Digital Tachograph Contract
Irish order for 100,000 Tachosmart cards runs until 2009
Releasedate: 23-Mar-2005
Visa or MasterCard? Two applications on one platform
Cooperation between Giesecke & Devrient and Visa International increases flexibility for card issuers
Releasedate: 14-March-2005
German Health Minister receives e-health care card
Releasedate: 10-March-2005
German Interior Minister Otto Schily visits Giesecke & Devrient
Releasedate: 08-March-2005
Giesecke & Devrient Expands Activities in Central America
Bavarian Minister President Stoiber opens group's new production facility in Mexico. Roughly $10 million invested. Growing demand for security solutions in Central and South America.
Releasedate: 07-February-2005
Reliable, decorative counterfeiting protection for brand packaging
Releasedate: 01-February-2005
Infineon and Giesecke & Devrient Introduce a Leaner, Meaner Chip Card Package; New Production Method Enables to Add Extra Functionality Relatively Quickly and Makes Card’s Chip Package Even Tougher
Joint News Release by Infineon Technologies and Giesecke & Devrient
Releasedate: 28-January-2005
Expanded test phase for U.S. electronic passports will incorporate smart card technology from Giesecke & Devrient
G&D, through its partner EDS, was awarded a contract by the U.S. Government Printing Office
Releasedate: 24-January-2005
Leading card suppliers create Smart Payment Alliance
Birth of industry-wide association to facilitate and promote chip-based payment cards
Releasedate: 18-January-2005
Secure, user-friendly computer access in hospitals using smart card and PIN
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Computer Associates (CA) offer an integrated, smart card based security solution for medical staff in hospitals and clinics that also supports the electronic health professional card.
Infineon and Giesecke & Devrient Introduce a Leaner, Meaner Chip Card Package; New Production Method Enables to Add Extra Functionality Relatively Quickly and Makes Card’s Chip Package Even Tougher
Joint News Release by Infineon Technologies and Giesecke & Devrient
**** [not too] old news, however, still good to see close cooperation among wave's numerous bed-fellows --- NOW, if only they'd pay Wave some cash ALREADY!!!!!
Regensburg, Munich / Germany – February 1, 2005 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX) and Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) have jointly developed an innovative production method for chip packages specifically for use in chip card applications. The FCOS (Flip Chip On Substrate) method unveiled today is the first in which a chip card IC is rotated or flipped inside the module housing it. The functional side of the chip is attached directly to the module by means of conductive contacts; conventional gold wires and synthetic resin encapsulation are no longer required. The new attachment technique saves space in the module; additionally, it is even more robust than the conventional wiring solution. This means that the whole module handles high mechanical stresses better like those encountered, for example, when a chip card is sent by post and passes through the postal system’s sorting machines.
Removing the need for the wiring used in existing methods frees up space in the module, which is therefore able to accommodate a larger chip. Typically, the standard maximum chip size has been around 25 square millimetres. Using the new technique, it should be now possible to add extra functionality to the card relatively quickly, without the time- and cost-intensive space optimization work typically required in chip development.
Alternatively, the space savings provided by the FCOS method can be used to shrink the modules in which existing chips are housed. Smaller modules are already in demand for certain applications. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), for example, approved a smaller form factor for SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) cards in mobile phones at the beginning of 2004. ETSI wants to see dimensions of just 12 mm x 15 mm in future, a specification for which the smallest possible modules will be required.
Infineon’s responsibilities in the FCOS project included the fundamental development work, the design of the module and the development of the production method for FCOS modules. Both companies then brought their expertise to bear to ready the FCOS technology for practical chip card applications. G&D contributed its knowledge of chip card production, built the new module into the card body and conducted all of the card qualification tests necessary to confirm its suitability for high-volume production. Infineon and G&D will each market FCOS independently.
New FCOS technology already in widespread use
FCOS module technology is ready to go and is suitable for use with the standard production process for smart cards with contacts. The new packaging technology has passed its practical test. Infineon provided the more than 70 million FCOS modules which G&D integrated into prepaid phone cards already in circulation in Mexico.
The FCOS method is in principle suitable for use in all types of chip card including not only prepaid telephone cards and SIM cards for mobile phone network access, but also healthcare cards, personal entitlement cards for access to official services online, bank cards for electronic payment and company ID cards.
FCOS modules: only 6 times thicker than a human hair
The module, the gold contacts which can be seen on the left side of the chip card, is the structure that houses the chip. It connects the chip to the reader and is thus the card’s gateway to the outside world. FCOS module technology accommodates memory chips and microcontrollers equally effectively. Conventional chip packages are currently around 580 micrometer (µm) thick on average; FCOS modules not more than 500 µm. A human hair, by way of comparison, is typically around 80 µm thick.
Market position of G&D and Infineon in the smart card sector
Infineon estimates that it had a market share in excess of 25 percent in 2004 and was thus the world’s leading producer of chip packages for chip card applications. Data from US-based market researchers Gartner shows that Infineon was the world market leader in chips for chip card applications in 2003, supplying approximately 1.1 billion chip card ICs to a market with a total volume of just over two billion units (a market share of 53 percent). Gartner puts the total value of the chip card ICs market in 2003 at around USD 1.26 billion, giving Infineon a market share by sales revenue of 41 percent.
According to international growth consultants Frost & Sullivan, G&D is the world's number three manufacturer of chip cards in the year 2003, with a market share of approximately 17 percent of the about two billion chip cards issued in 2003.
Further information about Infineon’s chip card ICs available at www.infineon.com/security.
Further information about smart cards and smart card applications from Giesecke & Devrient available at www.gi-de.com.
About Giesecke & Devrient
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is a technology leader in the supply of smart cards, sys-tems and solutions for telecommunications, electronic payment transactions, trans-portation, health, ID, loyalty and multimedia applications as well as Internet security (PKI). G&D is also a leading provider of banknotes and securities as well as currency processing equipment.
The Giesecke & Devrient Group, headquartered in Munich / Germany, operates subsidiaries and joint ventures all over the world. G&D employs around 6,800 people world-wide and generates an annual revenue in excess of 1,05 Billion Euro. For more information, visit www.gi-de.com.
About Infineon
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solu-tions for automotive, industrial and multi-market sectors, for applications in communi-cation, as well as memory products. With a global presence, Infineon operates in the US from San Jose, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and in Japan from Tokyo. In fiscal year 2004 (ending September), the company achieved sales of Euro 7.19 billion with about 35,600 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX). Further information is available at www.infineon.com.
This news release and press photos are available at www.infineon.com/news.
For further information please contact:
Ulrike Zeitler
Phone: +49 (0)89 4119-1189
Fax: +49 (0)89 4119-2020
ulrike.zeitler@de.gi-de.com
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