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Alien Delivers 50 million EPC g1 Tags

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Alien Technology today announced that the company has now shipped 50 million EPC Class 1 RFID tags. The Alien RFID tags, which are manufactured using Alien’s patented Fluidic Self Assembly technology, are widely deployed in a large percentage of Wal-Mart and DoD-related RFID implementations. Alien continues to lead the market in delivering reliable, high volume, low cost EPC tags.

“Alien is pleased to pass this milestone of 50 million tags delivered in response to the rapid pace of demand for tags in the RFID market over the last 12 months,” said Keith McDonald, Sr.V.P. Sales & Marketing, Alien Technology. “We are continuing to build a strong pipeline of tag supply to meet escalating customer demand.” [end] 

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