Another Report Suggests NFC Support for iPhone 6, Chip to Be Provided by NXP
Apple will feature near field communication (NFC) technology in the iPhone 6 with a chip provided by Dutch company NXP Semiconductors, according to a
report from the
Financial Times. The chip will allow the iPhone to be scanned by payment terminals and ticket systems, while also allowing for further integration with other methods.
Throughout the past week, a number of rumors and reports from various sources have claimed that the iPhone 6 will gain NFC support. Evidence of NFC capabilities provided by NXP first surfaced earlier this week in a
claimed schematic, which showed the company's PN65 chip on the iPhone 6's logic board.
Yesterday, technology news website
WIRED and Apple blogger
John Gruber also suggested that the iPhone 6 would feature NFC, with the latter stating that Apple's NFC-based mobile payment system would use a new secure enclave coprocessor built into the company's new A8 chip, which was also
suggested by previous reports.
Last month, it was reported that Apple was
in talks with major credit card companies like Visa over a mobile payment solution that would utilize the credit card data already stored in millions of iTunes accounts. Apple also was said to be
interviewing senior payments industry executives to take on roles within the company, possibly indicating that the company has been hard at work on
creating its own mobile payments service.
Apple is expected to debut the
iPhone 6 and a
wearable device at an
event on September 9.
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Another Report Suggests NFC Support for iPhone 6, Chip to Be Provided by NXP
