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News Release from: Tower Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 June 2006
CMOS RFID chips enter production
Tower Semiconductor is the manufacturing supplier for Alien Technology's internally designed Gen 2 RFID integrated circuits.
Tower Semiconductor is the manufacturing supplier for Alien Technology's internally designed Gen 2 RFID integrated circuits These ICs recently achieved the EPCGlobal certification mark
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The RFID I Cs are produced at Tower's Fab2 in an advanced 0.18-micron manufacturing process.
Market analysts forecast the RFID IC market to grow from almost nothing in 2005 to between $500 million and $1 billion by 2010.
The newly certified Alien Gen 2 RFID chips include new CMOS devices that were jointly developed with Tower.
IC development efforts focused on the low-power requirements for such an RFID tag which draws its power solely from transmitted radio frequency energy.
"Gen 2 protocol is the emerging standard in RFID tag technology", said Yossi Netzer, General Manager of Mixed-Signal and RF Product Line at Tower Semiconductor.
"We are happy that Tower's R and D and manufacturing capabilities were chosen by Alien".
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