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Wednesday, September 10, 2003

RFID Journal - ThingMagic Teams Up with Intel

“ThingMagic, an engineering startup in Cambridge, Mass., has teamed up with Intel to develop a next-generation reader that delivers more computing power and is less expensive than ThingMagic’s current multi-protocol, multi-frequency reader. ThingMagic’s Schoner “We are increasing our computing power by a factor of about 100 and reducing the cost of producing the reader,” says Bernd Schoner, a managing partner and co-founder of ThingMagic. “This is Moore’s Law in action.” ”
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