ABI Research: Chinese Smart-Card Manufacturers Gaining Market Share

Major growth in developing markets over the last two years has allowed smaller Asian vendors, such as Eastcompeace, Watchdata, Datang, and Wuhan Tianyu, to increase their market share to 16 percent in 2010, up from just 12.4 percent in 2009. Asian vendors are increasingly challenging the top four all European vendors, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur, and Morpho, who saw their market share drop from 71.4 percent to 66.6 percent in 2010. read more