RFID technology seems to be on the rise lately. After Mitsubishi announced a super-efficient tag reader last month and NEC said it was able to dramatically cut production costs for RFID two weeks ago, it’s now Hitachi’s turn: The company has announced today that it has developed the world’s smallest RFID chip.
Hitachi claims their chip measures only 0.075×0.075mm, 80% smaller than the company’s smallest RFID chip available now. The new chip is made by observing how human cells are worked with in medicine. In the production process, the new chips are first floated in a liquid solution, picked up individually using a pipette and then transferred on to a substrate.
Hitachi says the new chips are cheaper to produce than the current models of the company, which cost slightly more than 10 cents per unit.
Via Nikkei [registration required, paid subscription]
5 cents per unit is still seen as the tipping point for mass adoption. Everything will have rfid tags once $0.05 per unit is reached.
The reduction in size means that finding these things will be tougher than ever.
You’re not exactly burning up the presses with this post. This news has been around for several weeks.
Screw you Hitachi and your friends at the CFR & Bilderberg!
Death to the NWO!
It’s way to late to be thinking of DOING enything.
Every thing you could think of. Has been prepaired for.