Samsung Fingerprint IC Chip SoC Announced

Feb 20,2024
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Samsung has revealed what it calls the" assiduity's first" each-by-one point security chip (IC) for payment cards. The S3B512C chip reads biometric information via a point detector, stores and authenticates data with a tamper-evidence secure element (SE), and analyzes it with a secure processor. While primarily designed for payment cards, it could also be used for" pupil or hand identification, class or structure access, the company said.

Substantially, however, the new chip could make it easier for banks and others to make biometric payment cards. The result performs in line with Mastercard's rearmost security specifications for payment cards, while also conforming to transnational security norms (CC EAL 6) for" guarding high- value means against significant pitfalls," according to Samsung.

Last time, Samsung blazoned that it was uniting with Mastercard on a biometric scanning payment card with an erected-in point anthology. It said at the time that the tech would" borrow a new security chipset from Samsung's LSI business" rather than using Mastercard's tech, so the new S3B512C chipset appears to be what it was pertaining to.

The chip could also allow for brisk and safer relations when making purchases, Samsung notes. It removes the need for a Leg law and indeed uses anti-spoofing technology to block fraudulent styles like artificial fingerprints.

It seems absurd that in 2022, people are still swiping cards and subscribing for purchases. Given Samsung's manufacturing chops and influence, still, the chip has the implicit to make biometric payment cards more mainstream. Samsung did not mention any launch guests or other details.