Gain ICs' Solution for Making RFID Tags as Cheap as Bar Codes

A few days ago, I had a conversation with Christopher Wright, the chief operations officer at Gain ICs, an integrated circuit design company based in Colorado. He was all fired up about Gain ICs' technology that, if added to a passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID chip, promises to dramatically increase wireless data transmission speeds, read range and tag sensitivity, as well as enable RFID tags to be as inexpensive to deploy as printed bar codes. The technology was invented by the company's CTO and cofounder, Jed Griffin, an engineer formerly with Intel. - See more at: http://www.rfidjournal.com/blogs/rfid-journal/entry?10856#sthash.TUFLlztk.dpuf