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Smart cards

Siemens SLE5542 smart cards

Smart cards with memory or processor chips

A smart card is a standard-sized plastic card that contains an integrated circuit or ’chip’ which gives the card the ability to store and/or process data.


Smart card

Chip cards are mainly of three different kinds:
Memory cards, which contain storage but no processing or significant security capabilities;
Smart cards, which contain a processor, systems software and applications software and permanent data engraved into non-volatile memory, and some (less expensive) volatile memory for use as a working storage area.