It's been a while now since I did a podcast interview with my friends at eWeek on China and RFID. The podcast is still available under their Baseline publication and you can follow the link above to hear it.
The time frame was mid-2006 and most of the world was buzzing about standardization on the RFID chip called "Gen 2". It reached a rapid acceptance around the world in most regions - except for China.
China was concerned about 2 things: 1. Using a standard that was partially driven by the U.S. DoD 2. Paying royalty for the intellectual property
Both of these were valid reasons for them to hesitate, especially considering that China was the source for many of the things in the supply chain for WalMart.
China eventually accepted the standard, and now today made a major announcement.
The Chinese RFID company - Invengo Technology announced that it was launching in the U.S. market a new low price for Gen2-standard passive UHF inlays at 5.8 cents. This is the price for the inlay - which is not a full RFID tag. An inlay contains the computing chip and antenna on a substrate. This inlay is then packaged by other companies to create the final RFID tag. Oh - and you do have to buy five million of them.
This is a significant event. China is now fully involved in the RFID supply chain and Invengo will certainly make some waves in the worldwide market. The company also produces RFID readers.
You can read more details on this announcement in the RFID Update Daily
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