Infineon Technologies has revealed new embedded security controllers aimed at top-end handsets and smart wearables at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona.The new products in the firm's SOLID FLASH-based SLE 97 product family have been designed to accommodate new market requirements for memory capacity to securely store biometric data or encryption keys on the security controller, such as fingerprint authentication enabling FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) standards.”Embedded Security builds a rock-solid foundation for the next-generation smartphones and mobile applications,” says Juergen Spaenkuch, Head of Platform Security at Infineon Technologies.”We enable various players in the mobile ecosystem to differentiate themselves from their competitors by realizing unique yet highly secured mobile solutions based on the new SLE 97 security controllers.”The secure elements provide the industry's highest memory capacity of up to 1.5MByte and are available with ultra-small packages, said Infineon.”The SLE 97 security controller family has explicitly been developed for the maximum performance and for high security to address the high-end UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card) and the embedded Secure Element markets”, wrote Infineon. “The product family has now been extended by adding security controllers with 1.5MByte and 1.3MByte memory density”.

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