Neubiberg, Germany, September 10, 2007–Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX) retained its global market leadership in chips for card applications in 2006. In a recent report entitled “Global Smart Card IC Study 2006”, the US market research company Frost & Sullivan confirmed that Infineon achieved market leadership. In 2006, Infineon’s market share was 29.1 percent of the overall chip card IC (integrated circuit) market, totaling about $1.9 billion U.S. dollars according to Frost & Sullivan. This makes Infineon the global market leader for chip card ICs for the tenth consecutive year. The market research company also affirms that Infineon is the market leader in volume shipments of security microcontrollers for chip cards. Infineon shipped 844 million microcontroller units in the 3.06 billion microcontroller market, leading it to exceed the 27.5 percent mark.

Neubiberg, Germany, September 10, 2007–Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/ NYSE: IFX), the world’s leading supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for chip cards, today announced it is the sole chip supplier for the largest patient healthcare card in United States. Siemens, Mount Sinai Medical Center and Elmhurst Hospital Center have formed a health smart card alliance to deploy up to 1.2 million Patient Health Smart Cards to link as many as 45 affiliated and related medical facilities in the New York metro area. The patient health smart card trial has begun late 2006 and is scheduled to end in 2007. In 2008, the health smart card alliance expects to issue approximately 500,000 smart cards which integrate a highly secure Infineon microcontroller.

New card personalization center has the capacity to meet growing demand in Finance and Public sectors

São Paulo, Aug 30, 2007–Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, opens a new Personalization Service Center in Brazil in order to better address the demand of its customers in the Finance and Public sectors of the Brazilian and South Cone markets (Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina). The new Barueri center, in the State of São Paulo, will deliver advanced personalization and distribution services for Gemalto’s secure personal devices. The new facility will enhance the capabilities of the company’s existing Curitiba’s production center, in Paraná, which has been producing chip cards since 1999 and is compliant with the highest levels of security required by Visa and MasterCard.

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 13, 2007–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), a world leader in digital security, today announces that it has successfully delivered Mexico’s first smart card driving license to the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico. The contract includes 900,000 driving licenses over a period of 3 years. This new card also acts as a reliable ID document and opens up the potential for additional e-schemes like healthcare for the benefits of all citizens.

Executive arrives to ensure a good technical interface with clients

Sagem Orga of Brazil is one of the world leaders in the Smart Card market, announcing the hiring of Fernando Ulbrich to coordinate technical support of telecommunications, banking, healthcare, and identity. This executive arrives in the company to ensure a good interface between the clients with the technical department, for example internal management of projects in the company.

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Carlos Henrique S. Airam has been appointed to lead Operations Management with the challenge of a team involved in technology and reduction in operational expenditures

Sagem Orga of Brazil is one of the world leaders in the Smart Card market, announcing the promotion of Carlos Henrique. S. Airam to Operations Management. This executive has graduated from Rio de Janeiro Federal University in Chemical Engineering and specialized in paper and PVC, and has since been leading the coordination of plastic cards in the Rio de Janeiro’s plant.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/–Mounting security threats across the world and the positive spillover effects of smart card use in government ID and other applications continue to drive the growth of the global corporate security (physical and logical) smart card market. Successful use in the government sector clearly establishes the potential benefits of smart card systems, leading to improved awareness and adoption levels among the corporate sector. However, lesser-developed countries are yet to overcome challenges related to affordability and lack of IT infrastructure, but are likely to overcome these medium term barriers over the course of the forecast period.

Banamex, a subsidiary of Citigroup, plans to carry out Mexico’s first MasterCard PayPass contactless trial in McDonald’s fast-food outlets in the city of Monterrey. As part of the pilot, contactless terminals will be installed at all McDonald’s restaurants in Monterrey.

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MADRID, SPAIN, November 30, 2006–Telvent GIT S.A. (NASDAQ: TLVT), the Global RealTime IT Company, announced today that it has signed several contracts with the operator of the Mexico City Federal District’s metro system. Under the contracts, which have a combined value of approximately two million euros, Telvent will upgrade control systems for the metro’s electricity infrastructure, and supply transport ticketing based on contact-free technology.

VeriFone says it has just supplied its 150,000th point-of-sale system to Mexico as part of the Central American country’s terminalization program.

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