Wlred
January, 2002
Dollars and ChipsThe federal government may soon have a whole new way to track spending. Hitachi recently announced the development of a microchip that's tiny enough to be embedded in paper. Hailed as the world's smallest radio-frequency identification circuit, the mu-chip is 0.4 millimeter square (about the size of a speck of pepper) and capable of broadcasting information to wireless receivers up to a foot away. The chip's ID information is embedded in read-only memory during the manufacturing...
