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Alien Technology® Awarded EPCglobal Certification Mark for Gen 2 RFID Integrated Circuit
June 8, 2006, Morgan Hill, CA – Alien Technology Corporation today announced that the company has been awarded the EPCglobal Certification Mark for its new UHF Generation 2 RFID integrated circuit. The certification mark signifies that hardware products have been tested and should operate according to the EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 Air Interface Protocol standard ratified in December 2004. This same air interface is in process of being approved as ISO specification 18000-6C.
Alien has received first production wafers from its foundry partner, Tower Semiconductor, and plans to complete the transition to the new Gen 2 chip with Alien’s proprietary Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA)-based manufacturing process in the first half of fiscal 2007.
The EPCglobal hardware certification mark is designed to demonstrate to purchasing companies that EPCglobal-certified products have been rigorously tested against EPCglobal Standards. “We want to enable companies that are implementing EPC in their business to have easy access to non-biased, reliable information about EPC hardware,” said Chris Adcock, president of EPCglobal Inc. “This way, companies will be better able to focus on their business at hand and have confidence in the products they select for EPC implementations.” The EPCglobal hardware certification is conducted by MET Laboratories, a third-party, nationally-recognized testing facility located in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.
About EPCglobal Inc
EPCglobal Inc™, a subsidiary of GS1, is a not-for-profit organization entrusted by industry to establish and support the EPCglobal Network™ as the global standard for real-time, automatic identification of information in the supply chain of any company, anywhere in the world.
About Alien Technology
Alien Technology provides UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services to customers in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's products include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional services. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) technology and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to enable the manufacture of high volume, low cost RFID tags.
Alien was founded in 1994. The company's facilities include: its corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; an RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center, in the Dayton, Ohio area, and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Alien is a member of EPCglobal. More information about Alien is available at www.alientechnology.com.
Alien, Alien Technology, the Alien logo, Squiggle and FSA, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Alien Technology Corporation in the United States and other countries. Copyright 2007 Alien Technology Corporation. All rights reserved.
