French aerospace and electronics group Thales has published a paper celebrating accelerating growth in the employment of embedded SIMs (eSIMs), while toning down its promotion of the even smaller iSIM variant incorporated in the device SoC (System on Chip). As a champion of both and as a major maker of IoT modules, Thales had until recently been accentuating the additional benefits of iSIMs for small IoT devices. Thales had for example underlined how iSIMs reduce the Bill of Materials (BOM), while simplifying an eSIM-enabled device and improving electricity consumption without compromising on processing power at all. Furthermore, by avoiding need for a separate eSIM component on the circuit board, the iSIM potentially ushers in a range of IoT applications for…