RFID chips are already well beyond the
embeddable-anywhere threshold, but the breakthrough Hitachi's planning to show off at this year's ISSCC (International
Solid-State Circuits Conference) is their newest mu-chip, an RFID tag that's a mere 0.15 x 0.15 millimeters, and 7.5
microns thick -- ten or more times thinner than a sheet of paper with all the 128-bit identifying goodness we've to
know and love / loathe. Ah, just think of the possibilities of embedding these things all the places their previous,
positively bloated 0.3 x 0.3mm / 60 micron thick chip wouldn't go (pictured right is the even more obese 0.4 x
0.4mm version). Ahem.Hitachi shows off 7.5 micron thick mu-chip RFID tag
R. Block|02.06.06
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February 6th, 2006
RFID chips are already well beyond the
embeddable-anywhere threshold, but the breakthrough Hitachi's planning to show off at this year's ISSCC (International
Solid-State Circuits Conference) is their newest mu-chip, an RFID tag that's a mere 0.15 x 0.15 millimeters, and 7.5
microns thick -- ten or more times thinner than a sheet of paper with all the 128-bit identifying goodness we've to
know and love / loathe. Ah, just think of the possibilities of embedding these things all the places their previous,
positively bloated 0.3 x 0.3mm / 60 micron thick chip wouldn't go (pictured right is the even more obese 0.4 x
0.4mm version). Ahem.All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
