08 Jun 2026NFC hardware
What's Inside an NFC Tag? The Anatomy of a Sticker, Card, and Inlay
An NFC tag is a stack of thin layers: a printable face, a copper antenna coil, a tiny NTAG chip, and an adhesive substrate. Understanding what each layer does explains why read range, not memory, is what usually makes or breaks a deployment.
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08 Jun 2026NFC memory
Why NFC Tags Don't Need Bigger Memory Chips, Even in the AI Boom
AI buildouts are absorbing the world's HBM, DRAM, and NAND supply. NFC chips are a very different class of hardware — most modern deployments barely touch the memory on the tag at all.
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