Gemplus Trading Update - Bankkaufmann

Luxembourg (ots/PRNewswire) - Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext
LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ:GEMP), a world leading player in the
secure card industry and a subsidiary of Gemalto N.V. (Euronext
NL0000400653 - GTO), announces today that it no longer expects to
meet its financial performance outlook for 2006. The Company cited
market conditions that will remain challenging and uncertainties in
the global economic environment. Because of the level of its
integration within Gemalto, the Company will not provide further
guidance on future earnings expectations on a stand-alone basis. It
expects to report on October 26, 2006 its financial performance for
the third quarter ending September 30, 2006.

About Gemplus

Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and
NASDAQ: GEMP) is a world leading player in the secure card industry
in both revenue and total shipments (source: Gartner-Dataquest, Frost
& Sullivan, Datamonitor).

Gemplus delivers a wide range of portable, personalized solutions
in areas including Identity, Mobile Telecommunications, Public
Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Healthcare, WiFi, Pay-TV,
e-government, and access control.

Gemplus's revenue in 2005 was 939 million Euros.

In June 2006, Gemplus and Axalto initiated their combination
to form Gemalto, a leader in digital security.

www.gemplus.com

www.gemalto.com

For more information:
Presse Relations Investisseur
Gemplus Gemplus
Remi Calvet Céline Berthier
Mob. : +33(0)6-22-72-81-58 Tel: +41(0)22-544-5054
Email : remi.calvet@gemplus.com Email: celine.berthier@gemplus.com

(c)2006 Gemplus. All rights reserved. Gemplus, the Gemplus logo,
are trademarks and service marks of Gemplus S.A. and are registered
in certain countries. All other trademarks and service marks, whether
registered or not in specific countries, are the property of their
respective owners.

Some of the statements contained in this release constitute
forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events
or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our or our
industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements to be materially different from any future results,
levels of activities, performance, or achievements expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual events or results
may differ materially. Although we believe that the expectations
reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot
guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those estimated by the forward-looking statements
contained in this release include, but are not limited to: trends in
wireless communication and mobile commerce sectors; our ability to
develop new technology, and the effects of competing technologies
developed and expected intense competition generally in our main
segments; profitability of our expansion strategy; challenges to or
loss of our intellectual property rights; our ability to establish
and maintain strategic relationships in our major businesses; our
ability to develop and take advantage of new software and services;
and the effect of future acquisitions and investments on our share
price. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes
responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of such
forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained
in this release speak only as of this release. We are under no duty
to update any of the forward-looking statements after this date to
conform such statements to actual results or to reflect the
occurrence of anticipated results.

ots Originaltext: Gemalto
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Contact:
Presse - Gemplus, Remi Calvet, Mob. : +33(0)6-22-72-81-58, Email :
remi.calvet@gemplus.com; Relations Investisseur - Gemplus, Céline
Berthier, Tel: +41(0)22-544-5054, Email: celine.berthier@gemplus.com