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Verayo has introduced an unclonable silicon chip which offers cost-effective brand protection and anti-counterfeiting solutions.
The Vera X512H RFID chip from Silicone Valley-based Verayo, uses a technology called Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), a type of electronic DNA or fingerprinting technology for silicon chips that makes each chip unclonable.
Verayo claims that no other chip or device can be disguised as the original chip, even if the data is copied from one Verayo RFID chip to another. Basic passive RFID chips can be easily cloned by copying the data residing on one chip to another.
Across industries
Verayo is targeting various industries with this unique anti-counterfeiting solution, including luxury brand goods, pharmaceuticals, secure IDs and access cards.
According to Anant Agrawal, CEO of Verayo: "Counterfeiting is a major issue today. It cuts across geographies and industries, and it is prevalent in both online and brick-and-mortar supply chains. This is a technology that will allow RFID to address the huge counterfeiting problem, the cost of which some industry analysts estimate at US$600+ billion."
Defence Agencies too
PUF technology was invented and first implemented at MIT by Professor Srini Devadas and his team. Since Verayo's founding in Silicon Valley in 2005, its team has designed, built, and tested ICs using PUFs and built-up a growing body of additional IP and substantive knowledge beyond the initial IP that Verayo licensed exclusively from MIT.
Verayo is funded by Khosla Ventures and has assembled an experienced advisory board drawn from the semiconductor and security industries. In addition to developing commercial products, the company is working on projects for various US Defence Agencies
Source: Verayo
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