Date: 18/10/2011

Infineon to supply >40% of the security MCUs for e-health cards in Germany

Infineon Technologies AG is set to supply more than 40 percent of the security microcontrollers for the 60 million electronic health cards, which German statutory health insurance companies started issuing in October 2011. The microcontrollers used come from the SLE 78 family.

"Infineon is the global market leader in security chips for e-health cards and health insurance cards," said Dr. Helmut Gassel, President of the Chip Card & Security Division of Infineon Technologies AG. "In employing our security microcontrollers, the German electronic health card is using one of the currently most advanced security technologies to provide a particularly high level of long-lasting protection for the insurance holders' data."