New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 7, 2014 @08:54AM from the supported-by-one-used-book-store-and-a-dude-in-his-garage dept.

dkatana writes: NXP, having worked with Apple on Apple Pay, is now launching its PN66T module for secure NFC mobile transactions — for Android. It's intended to implement the same functionality of Apple Pay. While NXP claims the module is OS independent, the features clearly indicate that Android devices are the likely recipients of the SoC. The PN66T is Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMVCo) certified, and also supports American Express ExpressPay, thus fully covering the three big credit card companies, ensuring compatibility and interoperability with existing and future payment methods.

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SoC? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-07 09:00 · Score: 0, Insightful

Software on Chip? It would be good if things were better defined in the summary.
NXP is a huge secure element provider. by LWATCDR · 2014-11-07 09:03 · Score: 4, Insightful

NXP making a secure element for any OS is about as shocking as nVidia making a GPU.
That is what they do.

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