Maxim køber Innova Card
Maxim Integrated Products overtager nu firmaet Innova Card, der har specialiseret sig indenfor 'secure' microcontrollerteknologi til bl.a. POS-terminaler (in english).
Maxim Integrated Products has acquired Innova Card, a privately held, fabless semiconductor company whose focus is advanced secure microcontroller technology for financial terminals.
The transaction bolsters Maxim’s presence in the $350M financial transaction terminal semiconductor market.Maxim products, such as the DS5002 secure microcontroller, pioneered the development and use of silicon for secure transaction terminals with innovative encryption techniques for protecting application code, custom-designed environmental sensors to enhance a terminal’s physical security, secure cryptographic hardware accelerators to ensure transaction integrity, and battery-backed nonvolatile zeroizing SRAM for secret key storage.
Innova Card has developed a highly integrated, secure 32-bit MIPS microcontroller and a precertified POS terminal reference design. In addition, they supply advanced customer support tools, including secure software libraries and a secure implementation of the Linux operating system. Innova Card has reduced the POS terminal design cycle time from 24 months to 6 months, substantially reducing the R&D burden and risk for the many companies that want to enter the POS terminal market.
- Financial institutions, businesses, and governments all want to move from cash transactions to electronic financial transactions for convenience, efficiency, and accountability reasons. Innova Card’s open platform, based on their 32-bit secure microcontroller and precertified reference design, will open the market to dozens of terminal makers, lowering implementation costs and accelerating the growth of the electronic transaction market throughout the world, says Maxim Division Vice President, Chris Neil.
