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Philips RFID Chips Certified for EPC Gen2 Standard

November 13, 2005 by Jeff Shepard

Royal Philips Electronics (the Netherlands) announced that its radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips have been certified by EPCGlobal as Gen2 compliant, according to the Metlab Conformance Test. The Philips UCODE EPC Gen 2 chips are available now. The EPC Gen 2 is widely supported by end-users and manufacturers within the RFID industry and will facilitate the widespread deployment of RFID technology - especially in logistic applications and the retail supply chain. With broad deployment of the EPC standard, different RFID labels and readers are fully interoperable in different global regulatory environments. As a result, suppliers and manufacturers throughout the supply chain can realize improvements in performance, cost, and reliability as well as easy migration to future EPC classes.

"We want to ensure that adopters of RFID achieve a seamless migration from the previous infrastructure while capitalizing on the global interoperability and increased performance that Gen 2 offers," said Philips Semiconductors Marketing and Sales, Identification Vice President Christophe Duverne. "Philips and its Gen 2 RFID solutions are answering the demand of the fast-moving consumer goods, pharmaceutical, apparel and many other industries. Compliance was the final milestone we needed to pass prior to starting volume production of our Gen2 chips, and we're pleased to be the first major supplier to deliver Gen2 chips to our customers."