Intel Corporation, the largest semiconductor company in the world has entered into the RFID bandwagon unleashing its first RFID chip, Intel R1000, which is compact and compressed in nature and promising to reduce the cost of RFID readers.
The Intel R1000 is a chip fitted for the use in ultra-high frequency RFID readers because it compresses 90 percent of the components in an RFID reader into single small chip. Its size is 8mm by 8mm.
With R1000, the manufactures and companies can reduce the cost of RFID readers by half. At present, the cost of an RFID reader is $1500 or more. The latest RFID chip can also put into multiple applications.
Announcing the launch of R1000, Kerry Krause, Director of Marketing for RFID at Intel states,
Today, readers are too expensive, too complex, and have too much variability from manufacturer to manufacturer. With the new Intel R1000 chip, I wouldn’t be surprised if, by end of the year, we see reader prices cut in half.
Certified by EPCglobal, the Intel chip also comes with a software development kit to simplify the process of programming readers. The company plans to ship the new chip by the end of this year for $40.
