RFID In China—The Biggest RFID Market This Year

Two hundred other local and foreign suppliers share the remaining $1238 million market value. These suppliers include foreign chip suppliers who had played a major part in RFID applications in China. For example, NXP supplied chips for the Beijing public transit cards and campus cards, and Inside Contactless won the Ministry of Communication order for the 7 million transportation certificate. Other chip suppliers active in Chinese market include Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, lnfineon, EM Microelectronics, Atmel, etc. Meanwhile, leading local RFID companies are achieving significant growth. Invengo had implemented the $80M RFID project for Ministry of Railways. Other major players include Vision Electronics, Sample, and Hsic.