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News Release from: IDTechEx | Subject: Chipless RFID forecasts
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 February 2006

Chipless RFID - the end game

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Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, reports some of the findings from a new study: "Chipless RFID forecasts, technologies and players 2006-2016".

RFID tags that do not contain a silicon chip are called chipless tags The primary potential benefit of the most promising chipless tags is that eventually they could be printed directly on products and packaging for 0.1 cents and replace ten trillion barcodes yearly with something far more versatile and reliable

RFID is a powerful enabling technology with ever widening application.

However, potentially the largest applications of RFID such as consumer packaged goods, postal items, drugs and books can only be fully addressed if tag prices drop to under one cent including fitting them in place.

There are many paybacks from doing this but, even taken together, they do not justify more.

These largest applications offer potential sales of ten trillion tags yearly but silicon chips will always be too expensive