How Converters Can Make RFID Labels

You will not make chips

The simplest answer to this—whether or not converters can get involved with microchips—is that a silicon chip factory costs $3 billion and only one or two companies can now afford to build them. This problem is aggravated by the rising cost of research needed to maintain the best production technology for chip making. Designing RFID chips for someone else to make is not as expensive, but independent RFID chip designers such as Impinj have raised tens of millions of dollars to compete with established RFID chip designers and makers such as Philips Semiconductors, Texas Instruments, EM Microelectronics, Hitachi, and Infineon. Despite being a start-up company only a few years ago, Impinj succeeded in this, but its skills are a long way from those of a label or package converter.