France-based Inside Secure announced it has shipped 10 million NFC chips this year through Oct. 15 and told NFC Times that most of the chips come stacked with embedded secure elements that could support ID, payment and other secure applications.
Although Inside didn’t mention the names of buyers of the chips in its announcement today, nearly all of the 10 million in shipments have likely gone to Research in Motion for certain NFC-enabled Bold and Curve BlackBerry models and other phones RIM might introduce over the next few months. Inside earlier this year had confirmed it was supplying RIM with NFC chips.
The chip vendor also has confirmed supply to U.S.-based rugged phone maker Sonim Technologies and has announced it will provide Chinese handset maker ZTE with NFC chips.