For wide scale adoption of this intelligent technology, manufacturers are painfully aware that their unit cost has to come down substantially.

Development of more cost effective smart-labels that will enable them to be mass-produced and used universally has become a priority for silicon chipmakers.

Now, Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany, the world’s sixth largest semiconductor manufacturer, may have an answer that will make it richer, whilst delivering much cheaper smart labels to manufacturers.

Infineon recently revealed a low-cost approach to the problem that employs integrated circuits powered by alternating current (AC) rather than direct current (DC), which is the current standard. Being powered by AC rather than DC, Infineon’s RFID chip would feature both reduced complexity and cost.

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