General Agreement on Delivery of my-D Vicinity Chips and Collaboration Between ExypnoTech and Holz-Elektronik.Business Editors RUDOLSTADT - HOHENBRUNN/MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11 2002 The technology company ExypnoTech GmbH (www.exypnotech.com), a subsidiary of NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., of Denver, Colorado, USA, (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :NPCT NPCT Nonproliferation Controls and Treaty Compliance NPCT Nasal-Pharynx Cancerous Tissue ) today announced that it has signed a general agreement with Holz-Elektronik GmbH (www.holz-elektronik.de) involving extensive collaboration in the area of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. technology. This agreement will take advantage of synergies in both firms in order to supply card manufacturers and system integrators with RFID technologies and products. As a result, optimum support will be provided to customers with RFID projects by both companies. Holz-Elektronik, headquartered in Kirchheim near Munich, is a specialty distributor of electronics components made by well-known manufacturers. Since assuming the distribution of Infineon AG's product line for smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. and security chips in 2001, Holz-Elektronik has expanded its product line for customers in the smart card and RFID industries. With a market share of 51% (according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Frost & Sullivan) Infineon is the undisputed leader in these markets. Also in conjunction with this collaboration, a general agreement was signed whereby Holz-Elektronik will supply ExypnoTech with Infineon RFID my-d chips. Initial quantities of ExypnoTech my-d smart inlays will be delivered yet this year to system integrators for very promising, high-volume pilot projects in the international RFID market. The my-d RFID chip family (ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 15693) from Infineon has set new standards for the RFID market. Two chip types, with memory capacities of 2 kbit and 10 kbit respectively, are being offered for low-cost RFID applications, such as item identification and ticketing. Alternatively, versions of each of these chip types can be equipped with a special security mode (available as of the 1st quarter of 2003). These products in particular are generating great interest among ExypnoTech's customers, many of whom are working with very complicated, security-sensitive applications. In its production of smart inlays, ExypnoTech uses a process based on a NanoPierce Technologies, Inc. patent which offers considerable competitive advantages in terms of both price and quality. This process has been installed on production equipment made by F&K Delvotec for ExypnoTech GmbH. On November 26, 2002, a presentation about this process was made by ExypnoTech GmbH to an expert audience in Munich under the auspices of an international workshop hosted by the Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society (German: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) is a German research organization with 56 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied (Technology and Production Processes for Flexible Electronic Systems). HOLZ-Elektronik GmbH Founded by Siegfried and Frank Holz in Munich in 1992, Holz-Elektronik is a specialty distributor for well-known manufacturers of electronics components. Among the companies represented by the firm are Osram, Epcos, Infineon, Tyco Electronics Tyco Electronics was the largest unit of Tyco International Ltd., and the world's leading supplier of passive electronic components. On June 29, 2007 Tyco Electronics became a wholly independent publicly-traded company, along with Covidien, from the breakup of the Tyco conglomerate and Fischer Elektronik. A network of offices throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland is managed from the firm's headquarters just outside Munich in Kirchheim, Germany. In 2001 Holz-Elektronik joined forces with Distar to form Disway AG. EXYPNOTECH GmbH ExypnoTech GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NanoPierce Technologies, Inc. of Denver, Colorado, USA, and is headquartered in Rudolstadt, Germany. ExypnoTech develops, produces and markets components for the RFID market worldwide. In its production of smart inlays, the Company employs flip chip A chip packaging technique in which the active area of the chip is "flipped over" facing downward. Instead of facing up and bonded to the package leads with wires from the outside edges of the chip, any surface area of the flip chip can be used for interconnection, which is typically done processes based on NanoPierce Technologies patents. For further information on ExypnoTech, log on to www.exypnotech.com. NanoPierce Technologies, Inc. NanoPierce Technologies Inc., is traded on the NASDAQ stock market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (OTCBB:NPCT) as well as on the Frankfurt and Hamburg exchanges (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :NPI NPI National Provider Identifier, see there ). In addition to the 12 patents it owns, NanoPierce has numerous applications pending, others in preparation, and various other intellectual properties related to NanoPierce's proprietary NCS (Network Call Signaling) CableLabs version of MGCP. See MGCP/MEGACO. NCS - Network Computing System: Apollo's RPC system used by DEC and Hewlett-Packard.The protocol has been adopted by OSF. (TM) (NanoPierce Connection System). This advanced system is designed to provide significant improvement over conventional electrical and mechanical interconnection methods for high-density circuit boards, components, sockets, connectors, semiconductor packaging and electronic systems. For more information regarding NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., visit the Company's website: www.nanopierce.com. This announcement contains forward-looking statements about NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., and its subsidiaries, that may involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors relating to the Company's operations could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements and are further detailed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) available at the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements are based on information available to NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., on the date hereof, and NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., assumes no obligation to update such statements. |
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