There were 5.76 billion payment cards shipped in 2014 and 45.32% were embedded with chips, up from 39.89% in 2013. Shipments of payment cards with chips totaled 2.61 billion, an increase of 449.5 million or 20.8% from 2.16 billion in 2013. The other 3.15 billion payment cards shipped only had magnetic stripes. Total shipments of microchip cards reached 10.04 billion last year, a 12.1% increase over 2013. Shipments of chip cards for SIMs used in mobile handsets totaled 5.74 billion last year, up 8.6%. SIM cards accounted for 57.14% of all chip cards manufactured in 2014. Payment cards accoun...