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China IC Card/Smart Card Industry Report, 2006

Published: Feb/2007

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The report not only analyzes and predicts China IC card market and development but also probes into six global leading IC card chip suppliers and nearly 50 Chinese enterprises for IC card chip, COS and card packaging as well as the related equipment manufacturers.

EuroSmart, the smart card supplier alliance, has forecasted in Nov 2006 that the global IC card shipment in 2006 would increase 27% to 3.285 billion and will reach 3.7 billion pieces in 2007 and this forecast counted the figures of Chinese 2nd-generation ID card and public traffic card for the first time.

Global Memory Card and CPU Card Shipment, 1999-2007


According to the statistics of the Smart Card Society of China Information Industry Trade Association (SCS of CIITA), the shipment of China IC card was about 712 million pieces in 2005, up by 26.5% compared to the year of 2004, however the shipment value dropped 14.1% to RMB 4.332 billion as the decreased price especially slump of SIM card price, which were caused by more intensive market competition in China IC card market in the year of 2005.

The statistics of SCS of CIITA show, the issue volume of China IC card has jumped from 20 million in 1996, the first year of gold card project, to 451 million in 2005, increased by 21.3 times. Despite of SIM card shipment accounting for more than half of China total IC cards shipment in recent years, its annual issue rate is the lowest, accounting for only 40%, which results in the overall issue rate of China IC cards rather low, sharing only about 60%. ResearchInChina believes that as the issue growth of the 2nd-generation ID card, and the increase of the IC card in other application fields, the issue rate of China IC card will rise to more than 75% in the year of 2007.

As for the layout of China IC card industry, the development is disproportional in different regions. Except for the pertinent investment from the State, many fundamental development of China IC card industry mainly depend on local regions, so the processing-oriented and sales-oriented enterprises far outnumber the R&D enterprises, which, consequently, will cause the development unbalanced. The whole industry looks just like a pyramid, the high-end enterprises on the top of the pyramid take minority while the low-end enterprises take majority, so the competition varies in different levels.

As the result of the backward development of China semiconductor industry, IC card chip design is as weak as the other electronics products. Currently, the key IC card markets are basically dominant by the international semiconductor giants like Infineon, Renesas, Philips, and ST, etc. And China's domestic IC card chip design enterprises only have quite less market shares, and moreover, the technology level and product stability are also outdated.

Considering the information security, the 2nd generation ID card project is only turned over to Chinese enterprises. Therefore, the foreign-funded enterprises set their eyes on the other promising smart card markets. So the most competitive market for the domestic and foreign-funded enterprises is the SIM card market. Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd may be the only one Chinese chip manufacturer that could compete with the international manufacturers in this market.
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