US consumers have been fumbling with chip cards for a year now. Credit: Getty Images It's been a long year. At least, it feels that way if you spent it waiting to pay for things with your chip card.

[Billy Cheung] decided to build a crystal radio using a rather unconventional detector – the smart chip in a common credit card. This is possible because the smart chip on many credit cards ...

Korean secure access specialist Synic Solution launched an innovative, cost-effective, new generation card reader chip using a Cortus APS23 32-bit processor core.