PRO with Triple DES coprocessor introduced. 1999 – MIFARE PROX with PKI coprocessor introduced. 2001 – MIFARE Ultralight introduced. 2002 – MIFARE DESFire introduced, microprocessor based product. 2004 – MIFARE SAM introduced, secure infrastructure counterpart of MIFARE DESFire. 2006 – MIFARE DESFire EV1 is announced as the first product to support 128-bit AES. 2008 – MIFARE4Mobile industry Group is created, consisting of leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem. 2008 – MIFARE Plus is announced as a drop-in replacement for MIFARE Classic based on 128-bit AES. 2008 – MIFARE Ultralight C is introduced as a smart paper ticketing IC featuring Triple DES Authentication. 2010 – MIFARE SAM AV2 is introduced as secure key storage for readers AES, Triple DES, PKI Authentication. 2012 – MIFARE Ultralight EV1 introduced, backward compatible to MIFARE Ultralight but with extra security. 2014 – MIFARE SDK was introduced, allowing developers to create and develop their own NFC Android applications. 2014 – NXP Smart MX2 the world's first secure smart card platform supporting MIFARE Plus and MIFARE DESFire EV1 with EAL 50 was released. 2015 – MIFARE Plus SE, the entry-level version of NXP's proven and reliable MIFARE Plus product family, was introduced. 2016 – MIFARE Plus EV1 was introduced, the proven mainstream smart card product compatible with MIFARE Classic in its backward compatible security level. 2016 – MIFARE DESFire EV2 is announced with improved performance, security, privacy and multi-application support. 2016 – MIFARE SDK is rebranded to TapLinx, with additional supported products. 2018 – MIFARE 2GO cloud service was introduced, allows to manage MIFARE DESFire and MIFARE Plus (in SL3) product-based credentials onto NFC-enabled mobile and wearable devices. 2020 – MIFARE DESFire EV3 is announced 2020 – MIFARE Plus EV2 was introduced, adding SL3 to support MIFARE 2GO, EAL5+ certification & Transaction Timer to help mitigate man-in-the-middle attacks. 2022 – MIFARE Ultralight AES was introduced. The MIFARE product portfolio was originally developed by Mikron in Gratkorn, Austria. Mikron was acquired by Philips in 1995. Mikron sourced silicon from Atmel in the US, Philips in the Netherlands, and Siemens in Germany. Infineon Technologies (then Siemens) licensed MIFARE Classic from Mikron in 1994 and developed both stand alone and integrated designs with MIFARE product functions. Infineon currently produces various derivatives based on MIFARE Classic including 1K memory (SLE66R35) and various microcontrollers (8 bit (SLE66 series), 16 bit (SLE7x series), and 32 bit (SLE97 series) with MIFARE