Chan Wanich-NEC consortium, a Thailand-based company that prints the country passports, has selected Oberthur Card Systems to provide smart card chips for the documents. The contract calls for Oberthur, which is based in France, to supply several million chip modules for Thailand’s e-passport, beginning with an initial rollout of 1 million cards this year. Oberthur is contracted to provide a 64-kilobyte contactless chip, which will be embedded in the passport’s outside cover. The chip will store the passport-holder’s name, date of birth, address, fingerprint and a photograph.