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China will chip into NFC in major way
By Zhu Shenshen |
December 20, 2012, Thursday
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CHINA will become a major market for near-field communication technology and more than 100 million NFC chips are expected to be sold globally this year and 1.5 billion by 2016, US-based Broadcom said yesterday.
China's huge market size and support by China Mobile and China Unicom will help the new technology, said Broadcom, the world's top chip designer for wireless connections.
"China will become the catalyst for the new technology after it set up the mobile payment standard in the middle of this year," said Alex Chou, Broadcom's senior product marketing director of its mobile and wireless group.
China Mobile will officially start commercial use of NFC in 2013 and the world's biggest telco expects to sell 10 million NFC phones. China Unicom has started trial use of NFC in Shanghai in conjunction with the China Merchants Bank.
Chou also said a lower-cost combo chip, combining Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and NFC functions, will debut in the domestic market next year.
NFC allows smartphones and electronic devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity.
China's huge market size and support by China Mobile and China Unicom will help the new technology, said Broadcom, the world's top chip designer for wireless connections.
"China will become the catalyst for the new technology after it set up the mobile payment standard in the middle of this year," said Alex Chou, Broadcom's senior product marketing director of its mobile and wireless group.
China Mobile will officially start commercial use of NFC in 2013 and the world's biggest telco expects to sell 10 million NFC phones. China Unicom has started trial use of NFC in Shanghai in conjunction with the China Merchants Bank.
Chou also said a lower-cost combo chip, combining Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and NFC functions, will debut in the domestic market next year.
NFC allows smartphones and electronic devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity.
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