TI delivering EPC Gen 2 RFID inlays and straps

15 July 2005


Texas Instruments reports customer delivery of pre-production quantities of its EPC Generation 2 RFID inlays and straps, and has commenced delivery to major customers including label converters and printers. The company is also entering volume production in the millions, starting with its UHF EPC Gen 2 inlays.

TI's Gen 2 straps are designed for fast, accurate placement of the RFID chips direct on to inlays and labels. Label converter and printer manufacturer partners are working to incorporate the inlays and straps into finished labels for use by consumer goods manufacturers in the global retail supply chain.

"We're capitalizing on our RFID manufacturing muscle to move the market from prototyping to large scale deployments of EPC Gen 2 on a global basis," says Tony Sabetti, director of UHF/Retail Supply Chain, Texas Instruments RFid Systems.

TI is also working to facilitate interoperability of the EPC Gen 2 infrastructure, including encoders, readers, printers and hardware devices, accelerating market adoption by consumer goods manufacturers and retailers.

"With its delivery of production ready Gen 2 products, TI has strengthened RFID industry momentum toward higher volume supply chain RFID solutions," says Erik Michielsen, director of RFID and Ubiquitous Networks, ABI Research. "As reliable Gen 2 products reach the market, resellers, integrators, and end users see less uncertainty and more reason to allocate additional financial and human resources to RFID supply chain deployments."

The EPC Gen 2 standard is the newest and most advanced of the RFID specifications for the UHF band centred around 900MHz, and is widely supported by end users and manufacturers in the RFID industry.

  

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