TI says its Gen 2 chips will be available in August, in the form of wafers and as rolls of chips attached to straps. The company will stop making Gen 2 inlays.
Complete Wal-Mart out-of-stocks research paper available; Axcess, Tyco Fire & Security combining products; Tagsys introducing handheld for libraries; Omron announces new HF interrogators; World Cup ticket tags; Tower to provide Alien chips.
Interrogator supports HF and LF cards; Microsoft announces RFID software, hardware support; Philips supplying chips for French e-passports; Avery names additional qualified smart-label converters.
Intelleflex will supply a chip for the passive tags Boeing wants placed on parts for its Dreamliner jets, but the chips will have one-eighth the memory Boeing originally requested.
The Finnish RFID inlay and label maker unveils a new line of HF tags using chips produced according to Magellan's patented phase-jitter modulation design.