Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

First Polymer RFID Chips

Monday, November 29, 2004
Essential technical milestones have been achieved: Recently PolyIC presented the world’s fastest organic circuit (600kHz) and working RFID (radio frequency identification) Tags based on polymer organic semiconductors as prototypes. The tags are based on a radio frequency of 125 kHz. The target of PolyIC is to reach the 13.56MHz standard. The circuits proved to be very stable, even without any encapsulation. They have been demonstrated live on several international conferences. Future target of PolyIC is to develop and adapt production techniques for this technology, to allow mass volume production. PolyIC will provide low-priced products with high quality. For this electronic production high volume printing machines will be used. First products with printed electronics in large quantities should be available during 2006.”

Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group has joined GlobalPlatform as the organization’s latest Observer Member.

The Chinese chip design company focuses on the development and manufacture of application-specific secure chips across multiple sectors, including automotive, mobile/telecoms and payment. In joining GlobalPlatform, Shanghai Fudan will bring a its knowledge and experience in the manufacture of secure chips for specific functions, further strengthening the organization’s membership base of chip manufacturers.  

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Grade school students in the Brazilian city, Vitoria da Conquista’s are using school uniforms embedded with RFID chips to alert parents if they’re not attending class, according to The Huffington Post.

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HID Global has developed a new a manufacturing process that enables use of some of the world’s smallest integrated low-frequency (LF) chips ever produced for contactless ID applications.

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Gaming Partners International announced that it has received three orders to supply casino chips and plaques totaling just under $4.7 million.

The company will produce approximately 700,000 custom Bourgogne et Grasset (B&G) premium casino chips for Venetian Macau Limited’s Sands Macau and Sands Cotai properties. GPI will also produce over 80,000 B&G RFID plaques to Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM)’s Grand Lisboa property.

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Gaming Partners International Corporation announced that it will introduce several new products at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia exhibition in Macau, China.

GPI will release new currency security features that can be added to any of the company’s chip brands, highlighting several enhancements to its Bourgogne-et-Grasset (B&G) currency and RFID product portfolios.

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Austriamicrosystems has developed two new RFID reader chips combining low power operation, small size, and low cost to enable RFID implementation in embedded portable and consumer devices.

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