This market data report focuses on data from all leading secure IC vendors. The data includes estimates covering annual secure IC shipments delivered to the following vertical markets: authentication ICs, enterprise and access ID, NFC embedded secure elements, government and healthcare citizen ID, payment and banking, pay TV/conditional access, retail and loyalty, SIM, SWP SIM telecom/payphone, transportation, and "other" applications. Additional granularity is provided with shipments split by interface covering all the major regions: Latin America, North America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In addition to the market forecast are a set of market shares covering the leading secure IC vendors active within the overarching smart cards and embedded secure IC market alongside market specific shares analysis covering payment & banking, government ID and SIM card ICs for the first half of 2018.