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CTA launches open API standard to support radar-enabled contactless applications

By Tom Phillips • 25 January 2022 • Updated 25 January 2022

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has released an open API standard to support and facilitate the development and implementation of interoperable radar sensing systems which, like NFC-enabled technologies, can be used to add contactless and hands-free functionalities to devices across a wide range of use cases... More

TI opens NFC wearable design challenge

By Rian Boden • 11 June 2015 • Updated 25 June 2022

Semiconductor maker Texas Instruments is running an NFC wearable design challenge, inviting developers to use its RF430FRL15xH NFC sensor transponder to create wearable health and fitness applications... More

TI offers NFC sensors

By Mike Clark • 12 December 2014

Texas Instruments has introduced an integrated NFC sensor transponder that combines an ISO 15693 compliant NFC interface with a programmable microcontroller, non-volatile FRAM, an analog-to-digital converter and SPI and I2C interface... More

Premo introduces compact NFC antenna

By Sarah Clark • 19 March 2014 • Updated 30 June 2023

Premo's z-axis NFC antenna

Premo's z-axis NFC antenna

A new NFC antenna aimed at today’s slimmer smartphones has been introduced by Premo... More

TI adds NFC chips for vehicles

By Mike Clark • 9 January 2013 • Updated 23 January 2024

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments has launched a family of wireless combo-connectivity solutions for the automotive industry at the CES show... More

Authentec sells Embedded Security Solutions division to Inside Secure

By Sarah Clark • 19 November 2012 • Updated 24 May 2024

Authentec

The sale suggests that Apple’s interest in acquiring Authentec lies with the company’s innovative combined fingerprint and NFC solution, which is not part of the division being acquired by Inside Secure, and will lead to renewed speculation that Apple will include NFC in future iPhones and other devices. More

Infineon gains support for DCLB

By Mike Clark • 12 November 2012 • Updated 19 January 2024

Ten device manufacturers are now using Infineon‘s Digital Contactless Bridge (DCLB) interface to enable a fast and secure connection between an embedded secure element and an NFC modem, the chip maker reports... More

Stollmann adds support for Texas Instruments NFC chips

By Mike Clark • 29 October 2012

Stollmann and Texas Instruments

Stollmann and Texas Instruments

Software stack specialist Stollmann has expanded its NFC stack to include support for Texas Instruments’ TI TRF79xx family of NFC chips... More

Texas Instruments adds smart meter development board with NFC

By Mike Clark • 10 October 2012 • Updated 22 May 2024

TI's Smart Meter Board

TI's Smart Meter Board

Texas Instruments has unveiled a development board for smart meters that includes support for NFC... More

Telecom Italia to test NFC in Milan

By Sarah Clark • 27 February 2012 • Updated 27 February 2012

Telecom Italia's Marco Patuano

Telecom Italia's Marco Patuano

The Italian mobile network operator is to work with French technology cluster Pole SCS on the development of a range of innovative NFC services which will be introduced first in the city of Milan from later this year. More

TI enters NFC phone chip market

By Sarah Clark • 13 February 2012 • Updated 13 February 2012

Texas Instruments' WiLink 8.0 combo chips

Texas Instruments' WiLink 8.0 combo chips

The semiconductor giant has launched WiLink 8.0, a new family of all-in-one combo chips that include an integrated NFC controller chip and come “paired and pre-tested” with embedded secure element chips from both Infineon and NXP. More

Plug-in dongle adds internet to TV — and comes with NFC

By Joe Davies • 10 January 2012 • Updated 10 January 2012

Always Innovating's HDMI dongle

Always Innovating's HDMI dongle

Always Innovating has shown off a reference design for an NFC-enabled plug-in device that transforms any television with an HDMI input into an internet-connected screen... More

TI NFC tech heads to POS

By Mike Clark • 5 October 2011 • Updated 9 October 2023

Chinese POS specialist ViewAt has produced a reference design for a modular point of sale system that incorporates PCI security and NFC capabilities... More

Texas Instruments enters NFC market

By Sarah Clark • 9 August 2011 • Updated 28 July 2022

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments

TI has announced its first NFC product, an NFC transceiver that supports peer-to-peer communications and card emulation as well as read/write functionality and is designed to be built into a wide range of industrial, commercial and consumer products. More

NXP denies takeover talks — but reveals price it could accept

By Christopher Brown • 12 April 2011 • Updated 6 May 2011

Chip maker NXP is not in takeover talks, its chief executive has said, although he would consider an offer like the one Texas Instruments made for National Semiconductor, Reuters reports... More

Gentag announces low-cost NFC/RFID phone

By Sarah Clark • 10 February 2011 • Updated 24 November 2022

Gentag's GT-601

Gentag's GT-601

The US$119 GT-601 NFC handset is designed for “people who are concerned only with basic voice communication, mobile payments, social networks, and diagnostics using a low-cost mobile wireless device,” says Gentag. More

Broadcom to enter NFC market, buys Innovision for $47.5m

By Sarah Clark • 18 June 2010 • Updated 3 October 2022

Semiconductor giant Broadcom Corporation has announced it has agreed to acquire UK-based NFC specialist Innovision Research & Technology in a deal valued at US$47.5m... More

Innovision unveils next-generation NFC phone technology

By Sarah Clark • 4 June 2010

Adding NFC functionality to a mobile phone will soon cost less than a dollar, says Innovision’s Stephen Graham, with 15% to 20% of all the handsets shipped in 2012 set to include the company’s low-cost NFC technology. More

ABI ranks contactless transaction and NFC chip suppliers

By Sarah Clark • 13 November 2009 • Updated 13 November 2009

NXP Semiconductor has been ranked at the top of the latest edition of ABI Research’s Contactless Transaction IC Vendor Matrix... More

Innovision deals expected to lead to low-cost mass market NFC phones

By Sarah Clark • 1 June 2009 • Updated 12 July 2023

Three new licensing deals should see NFC being built into mass market handsets for under $1 — but not until 2013, says Innovision CEO David Wollen. More