CEITEC S.A.  Announces Volume Production of the Chip do Boi Device

RFID Device becomes Brazils First Homegrown Chip to Reach Mass Manufacturing at X-FABPORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Oct 18, 2011: CEITEC S.A., a Brazilian company that develops and produces application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) today announced that it has reached volume production for the first semiconductor device designed in-house. The device announced is being manufactured at X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries in Germany. Today’s announcement marks a major milestone in the country’s effort to develop a domestic microelectronics industry. CEITEC’s Chip do Boi is an advanced LF-RFID