There were 13.70 billion chip cards shipped worldwide in 2017, up 13.2% over 2016. The number of payment cards with chips reached 3.65 billion, up 1.4%. Chip cards were also used for mobile phone handsets, transportation and ticketing, private label prepaid, telecom, and nonpayment applications. When comparing manufacturers selling payment cards with chips, Gemalto remained the global leader with a 24.62% market share, down from 26.49% the prior year. Gemalto manufactured 955.0 million payment cards in 2017 and 94.14% had chips. Idemia, which includes companies formerly known as Oberthur an...