As you know, Russian passports are equipped with radio-frequency tags (RFID-chips), as well as cards in the Moscow metro. The widespread introduction of RFID chips in retail and transport logistics systems begins. Such chips are needed by all. Today
there is information that nanotechnology specialists from Rosnano are expanding production within the framework of this highly profitable project, which has already been launched at the Mikron plant. The equipment will again be borrowed from the European manufacturer of microchips STMicroelectronics.
Chip production with a 90 nm process technology on foreign equipment is what Russia considers to be nanotechnology.
“Rosnano State Corporation and IT-company Systematica create an enterprise for the development of radio frequency identification tags (RFID tags). Investment in the project will amount to 690 million rubles, the company's revenue by 2015 should reach 800 million rubles. A similar project “Rosnano” is already developing with Sitronics, but there will be no competition between industries, ”Kommersant writes.
New production will be located in St. Petersburg on the areas of "Systematics". According to the business plan, in 2015, its capacity for PatchTag tags will be over 1.3 million units per year, and for iNano labels-stickers - about 160 million units. Rosnano and Systematica are planning to launch a new generation of RFID chips of the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 standard based on 90 nm technology.
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This is the second Rosnano project on the development of 90 nm technology.
The same microcircuits are already being made by the Micron plant of Sitronics, for which Rosnano also purchased technology from STMicroelectronics.