5 cent - rfid gen 2 chipsThe long awaited 5 cent is here!!
This is what the industry was waiting for!!! So lets get going!!!
Intresting that Samsys is one of Philips member Co's.
Why is Sirit Not one of them???
Philips' Gen 2 Chip Gets Certified
Royal Philips Electronics' UCODE EPC G2 RFID chip for RFID tags and labels has won EPCglobal certification.
Nov. 14, 2005—Royal Philips Electronics has won EPCglobal certification for its EPCglobal Class 1 Generation 2 IC for RFID tags and labels. The company says it will start shipping production quantities of its UCODE EPC Gen 2 chips in January.
Philips' UCODE EPC Gen 2 chip joins Impinj's Monza chip as the only RFID IC certified as EPCglobal Gen2-compliant, based on tests done by MET Laboratories, which runs the EPCglobal Hardware Certification program. Impinj won its certification in September 2005 (see EPCglobal Certifies Gen 2 Hardware).
Philips says tags and labels using its UCODE EPC G2 IC will be available from the member companies of its Gen2 Task Force program, which includes ASK, Avery Dennison, Checkpoint Systems, Deister Electronic, Feig Electronic, Omron, Rafsec, SAMSys, Symbol Technologies, ThingMagic and X-ident Technology.
Initially, Philips says, prices for the Gen 2 tag are likely to begin at 7 to 8 U.S. cents apiece. Once production volumes reach the hundreds of millions in line with demand, however, the company reports, prices per IC will fall below 5 cents each.