Hitachi develops new RFID powder, world’s smallest RFID chip
Today Hitachi announced a new “powder†type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm, which they may begin marketing within 2 to 3 years.
By relying on semiconductor miniaturization technology and using electron beams to write data on the chip substrates, Hitachi was able to create RFID chips 64 times smaller than their currently available 0.4 x 0.4 mm mu-chips. Mu-chips have been used as an anti-counterfeit measure in admission tickets, and the new chips have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38-digit ID number.
These new chips are also 9 times smaller than prototype chips Hitachi unveiled last year measuring 0.15 x 0.15 mm.
At 5 microns thick, the RFID powder can be embedded in paper, like paper currency, gift certificates and identification cards. But since existing tags are already small enough to embed in paper, it leads one to wonder what new applications the developers have in mind.
Via Pink Tentacle
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February 15th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Rember the saying “One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind” well I think that it is a very large step for man to make a chip that is all raido waves and can be mistaken for a piece of dust. At the same time i belive that it should only be opinal for companises and the gov. and the chip itself should not be capibal for normal citizens to be abel to get there hands on one.my reasoning for the normal public to not have them is because we all know that there is those out there that have to hurt others to get pleasure or thive on the suffering of others, or terrorists that also want others to be suffering, and if those sertian people got ahold of this small disk they could insert it into anything that does not pass through the system in a short time and track you no matter where you are. So i belive that the chip should be used only in companies and gov. ( like hospitals) that could use the small disks to help save room. And we all know that there is starting to get less and less room in the world so we need to save room as much as possible.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:01 pm