Changes in the Target Markets for Printed Electronics

We wish TFE and Poly IC well with anticounterfeiting and fraud prevention. However, we note that Holotag, Link-Sure, Flying Null, Remoso, Lintec, Miyake, Navitas, Remoso and CWOSRFID, when they realized that their chipless tags had too little data for mainstream RFID, thought that their escape route was a few bits in a label for anti-counterfeiting and fraud prevention and most of them have either gone bankrupt or abandoned the chase. HID succeeded with a 25 bit (deliberately eccentric) Barkhausen effect array of microwires in two dollar secure access cards, selling about 60 million, and later Menippos sold gaming cards discussed later in this article but that was all. TFE needs adequate printed RFID logic and air interface and Poly IC needs adequate rewriteable memory capacity.