“This achievement adds yet another milestone in Infineon’s outstanding track record of certified security products,” said Dr. Helmut Gassel, Vice President and General Manager of the Chip Card & Security ICs business unit at Infineon Technologies. Contactless applications have to cope with very tight power and time constraints. Interactions between card and reader have to be terminated within approximately 0.5 seconds. The high-security contactless chips of the SLE 66PE family considerably shorten authentication times by speeding up encryption and decryption operations. Their very high transaction speeds of up to 848 kbit/s for communicating with the reader device is twice the speed of today’s typical transaction. monika.sonntag@infineon.com www.infineon.com/security