Qualcomm's Atheros subsidiary has come up trumps again: this time in the form of a tiny NFC chip designed to use less power when transferring data over the airwaves. The snappily monikered QCA1990 is about half the size of existing NFC chips, and uses a 40nm fabrication process to significantly reduce the power needed. This …

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Monday 10th December 2012 08:42 GMT Anonymous Coward

Stalled

This three-way stand off between the network operators, the manufacturers and the banks is killing the whole thing.

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1. Monday 10th December 2012 19:57 GMT Gene Cash
  
  Re: Stalled
  
  Thank god...
  
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Monday 10th December 2012 08:53 GMT Joe Harrison

Comma

Hi! Monday morning pedant here. Please can we not import the American habit of replacing the word "and" with a comma. As in "40nm NFC tech easy on batteries, case sizes"

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2. Monday 10th December 2012 10:05 GMT FlossyThePig
  
  Re: Comma
  
  What about "best used for bonking against tills"
  
  Is it just me who reads the coarser British meaning first?
  
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  1. Monday 10th December 2012 15:39 GMT TeeCee
    
    Re: Comma
    
    No, that'll be everyone.
    
    Including the author and the editorial team at Vulture Towers....
    
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  2. Tuesday 11th December 2012 08:37 GMT Francis Boyle
    
    Re: Comma
    
    I see you're new here. Actually, I see you really are new here, so for your information the Register's unofficial motto is something like "Supplying the internet with its daily dose of good old British double entendre since the 1990s".
    
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Monday 10th December 2012 09:30 GMT Robert Forsyth

Broadcom and Austria Microsystems have had these for a year, already

http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s608051

http://www.broadcom.com/products/NFC/NFC-Solutions/BCM2079x-Family

http://www.ams.com/eng/Press/Release-Archive-2011/AS3911-NFC-Reader-IC

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1. Monday 10th December 2012 11:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Broadcom and Austria Microsystems have had these for a year, already
  
  @ Robert Forsyth
  
  Broadcom yes, but http://www.ams.com/eng/Press/Release-Archive-2011/AS3911-NFC-Reader-IC
  
  This is a reader device for credit card terminals and the like - a completely different beast.
  
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2. Monday 10th December 2012 11:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Broadcom and Austria Microsystems have had these for a year, already
  
  Do try and keep up. We all know that several companies make NFC chips. The article spells out why this one is different. Comments like this don't make you look cleverer than the writer; they make you look like a cock.
  
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  1. Monday 10th December 2012 12:56 GMT Robert Forsyth
    
    Re: Broadcom and Austria Microsystems have had these for a year, already
    
    I was more upset by 'the present a press release as an article'.
    
    The Broadcom chip can be either reader or tag, and I think a version (bonding option) has an embedded secure element (SIM) in the package (for mobile phone use). The aerials range from credit card size down to postage stamp, but this was last year.
    
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