Actionable Benefits
- Pinpoint the current market dynamics for contactless migration across eight key applications to better target the higher-value form factor proposition.
- Enhance competitive strategy assessments by understanding the secure Integrated Circuit (IC) vendor landscape to identify strategic partnerships and competitive threats.
- Determine where to place strategic and market emphasis by identifying and targeting the largest growth opportunities within saturated and flattening smart card IC markets and emerging embedded secure IC opportunities.
Research Highlights
- Regional smart card IC forecasts, ending 2030, covering eight different applications—access control, government ID, payments, pay TV, retail and loyalty, SIM, payphone, and ticketing.
- Regional embedded secure IC forecasts covering authentication ICs, Near Field Communication (NFC) controllers, and NFC eSEs and eSIMs.
- Total shipments and contactless shipment data splits across all applications—access control, government ID, payments, pay TV, retail and loyalty, SIM, payphone, ticketing, NFC controllers, and eSE and authentication ICs.
- Full year 2024 secure IC vendor market shares covering the complete market, as well as individual market share analysis covering the total smart card market, embedded market, and the SIM and payment markets.
Critical Questions Answered
- How is overstocking expected to impact future results and how long will the impact continue?
- How did the chip shortage impact the smart card IC market, how did it affect chip Average Selling Prices (ASPs), and when will ASPs begin to decline?
- Which embedded secure IC variants, e.g., authentication ICs, Embedded Secure Elements (eSEs), and Embedded Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs), present the best revenue opportunity?
- What is the total market size for the top three smart card IC verticals: SIM, payment, and government Identity (ID), and how will this progress over the next 5 years?
- How will key market applications, most notably SIM and payments, progress in markets that are rapidly saturating and reaching full maturity?
- What are the key application segments that will drive higher-value migration to the contactless interface?
- What regions present the best smart card and embedded IC volumes opportunity over the next 5 years?
- Who are the leading suppliers within the secure IC market?
Who Should Read This?
- Strategy planners within smart card and secure IC organizations.
- Sales and marketing leaders looking to understand the market volume opportunity and benchmark organizational performance.
- Other ecosystem players working in strategy, sales, and marketing capacities, including contact plate, sensor, and card module vendors looking to understand the Total Addressable Market (TAM) size.