A SECURE ELEMENT contains a certified microcontroller and embedded software. It is secure, personal and portable and comes in multiple form factors : smart card, USB token, microSD, etc. Eurosmart members manufacture and personalize such secure elements, as well as the software and secure infrastructure around it. Secure elements have a strategic role in protecting digital identities and are vital to ensure digital security and privacy. Eurosmart’s Market and Technology Committee analyses shipments and forecasts of secure elements, highlighting new trends and creating adequate segmentation. The figures (given in millions of units) are divided into 5 main areas:
Each year, we also point the part of contactless secure elements amongst the total amount of secure elements actually shipped or forecasted. Mobility and contactless transactions are key drivers for growth, thanks to the convenient and secure user experience they enable.
Eurosmart expects a sustainable market for 2022 and 2023 Eurosmart confirms continued resilience driven by renewed demand in eSIM, contactless payment cards, and governmental and healthcare solutions. Nevertheless, the market is expected to be impact...
Eurosmart confirms overall resilience of Secure Elements’ market Disclaimer Despite the pandemic and ongoing chip shortage, the latest Eurosmart market analysis confirms an overall resilient market in 2021. During H1 2022, Eurosmart also confirms con...
Disclaimer: Eurosmart can confirm the resilience in 2021 of the Secure Elements market despite the current pandemic and chip shortage.We take the opportunity to comment on key drivers and trends for 2021 and extending into 2022.However, and due to th...
Eurosmart, the voice of the Digital Security Industry, issued its 2020 figures for Secure Element worldwide shipments. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, which makes it difficult to size the market dynamics in detail, the monitoring of Eurosmart over the l...
A Silicon shortage, initially hitting the automotive industry and widely covered by the media over the last months, is now spreading to consumer electronics, as more and more household goods use computer chips. First announcements have already been m...
Despite COVID-19, Eurosmart confirms the resilience of worldwide shipment of secure elements General disclaimer The COVID-19 crisis brought deep uncertainty to the global economy. Therefore, forecast figures at the time of publication are exceptional...
COVID-19 General disclaimer Due to the uncertainty that COVID-19 crisis brought to the global economy, the consumer demand and the industry dynamics, along with the limited view we had of its impacts as of April 2020, forecast figures at the time of ...
Eurosmart, the voice of the Digital Security Industry, issued its 2018 figures for Secure Element worldwide shipments and the 2019 forecasts. The overall growth was 2,8% for a total exceeding 10,2 billion unit. Financial Services In 2018, the demand ...
Eurosmart, the Voice of the Digital Security Industry, announced the 2017 figures for worldwide secure element shipments and the 2018 forecasts. The overall growth trend is confirmed in 2017 (+3.6%) while the 2018 forecasts exceed 10 billion units. “...
Eurosmart expects steady business growth in 2017 and 2018 for the Digital Security Industry Cannes, 28th November 2017 – At the opening of TRUSTECH 2017, Eurosmart, the Voice of the Digital Security Industry, announced its annual forecast of worldwid...
2017 forecasts confirm sustained growth for the Smart Security Industry Brussels, 18th May 2017 – Eurosmart, the Voice of the Smart Security Industry, announced the 2016 figures for worldwide secure element shipments and the corresponding 2017 foreca...
Brussels, 19th of May 2016 – At its annual General Assembly in Brussels, Eurosmart, the Voice of the Smart Security Industry, announced the 2015 figures for the worldwide secure elements shipments and the corresponding 2016 forecasts. Timothée Mangen...
Eurosmart, the Voice of the Smart Security Industry, released the 2014 figures for the worldwide secure elements shipments and the smart secure contactless markets as well as the corresponding 2015 forecast. The data provided by Eurosmart consist of ...
Eurosmart announces total Smart Secure Device shipments of 7 billion in 2012 and expects 9% annual growth in 2013. Telecom • Rapid ramp-up of NFC deployment expected to continue with significant volumes of NFC SIMs • M2M technology opens the door to ...
At the General Assembly (3 May 2011, Brussels), Eurosmart has increased the final figure for shipments in Telecom market segment in 2010 to 4.2 billion; thereby bringing the total shipment of microcontroller based Smart Secure Devices to above 5.5 bi...
All market segments showed positive volume growth in 2009, demonstrating the resilience and capacity of innovation of our Industry. The main sources of growth by market segment were: Telecom – GSM penetration in emerging markets is fueling steady gro...
Telecom: We anticipate a growth in volumes during FY2009 in the range of 3% to 9% compared to FY2008, i.e between 3300Mu and 3500Mu. Emerging markets continue to fuel the growth in volume with, for instance, millions of new subscribers in India and 3...
Mobile communication: another year of strong unit growth: – Growth is driven by almost all regions and emerging countries such as India in Asia, Middle East and Colombia in South America – Chinese market is growing again in 2006 after a stable year i...
Mobile communication – Mobile communication confirms its status of the largest and fastest growing segment with a growth of 24% in volume compared to 2004 – Growth is mostly driven by emerging countries in all regions: Latin America, Eastern Europe, ...
– Memory smart cards declined by 15% and passed just below 1 billion mark shipment. – Microprocessor smart card very strong growth: 40% fuelled for the first time in history above memory cards shipments. – Wireless Telecom SIM Cards Very Strong Growt...
A tremendous growth of the wireless sector (+85%), with a major impact on the global revue of the smart card industry. – A high increase of the global processor cards market (+36%), as fast as the previous year. – A lesser progression of the global.....
– Return to growth of Wireless Telecom SIM Cards : +10%. – Banking/Retail microprocessor grew 16% reaching 175 Million units. – Total Microprocessor shipments grew 17% boosted by emerging segments such as Government/health, Transport, Pay-TV, IT Secu...
