The Washington Post

U.S. Passports to Receive Electronic Identification Chips

The State Department yesterday issued final rules for implanting electronic identification chips into all U.S. passports, despite continuing controversy over the security of the system and its impact ...
ZDNet

Europe speeds up electronic ID plans

EU citizens may be hit by a double whammy of electronic idenfication measures over the next two years with the introduction of health insurance ID cards across Europe and a new EU passport embedded ...
Electronic Design

Chip Consortium To Develop High-Security ID Cards

Semiconductor companies Infineon Technologies AG and NXP Semiconductors Germany (NXP) and chip card maker Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) are among eleven companies from six European Union (EU) countries ...
Electronic Design

Electronic ID welcomes paper-thin smart-card ICs

Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Ultra-thin smart-card ICs finer than a human hair, or a sheet of paper. Such chips, part of NXP Semiconductors’ SmartMX family, can now be manufactured at 75 m (0.000075 m) ...