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Impinj Expands Global Support with Addition of Japan Country Manager
Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its two business lines: high performance radio-frequency identification (RFID) and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) products today announced the opening of its Japan office with the appointment of Gerry Shimauchi as Japan Country Manager, responsible for increasing market penetration and accelerating demand for the company's IP products.
ViewImpinj Expands Multi-Time Programmable Nonvolatile Memory Product Line
Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) business, has announced the expansion of its IP product line with the qualification of its AEFuse™ memory in 0.25µm with additional availability in 0.18µm Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) manufacturing processes.
ViewImpinj's RFID Tag Chip and Reader Receive EPCglobal Gen 2 Certification Marks
Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its two business lines: high performance radio-frequency identification (RFID) and semiconductor intellectual property products today announced that its Gen 2 RFID products, the Monza™ silicon chip for tags and labels and the Speedway™ RFID Dense-Mode Reader 1.1 received EPCglobal Hardware Certification Marks during the 2005 EPCglobal US Conference.
ViewImpinj Gen 2 Silicon Shipments to Eclipse 50 Million Units in 2005
Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its two business lines: high performance radio-frequency identification (RFID) and semiconductor intellectual property products today announced that it has entered volume production and will fulfill orders exceeding 50 million units for its Monza™ Generation 2 (Gen 2) RFID tag chip in the second half of 2005.
ViewImpinj and Alien Technology® Announce Supply Agreement for RFID Chips
Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its high performance radio-frequency identification (RFID) products and Alien Technology Corporation, a market leader in UHF RFID tags, today announced a long-term agreement under which Impinj will provide its Monza™ Generation 2 (Gen 2) chips for inclusion in Alien®'s RFID inlay and strap products.
ViewImpinj Wins Three Prestigious Awards for Business and Technology Achievement
Chosen as Venture All Stars’ “Venture of the Year”, Named “Top 100 Private Company” Award Winner by AlwaysOn, and Selected as One of Red Herring’s Hottest Private Companies”
View2005 Venture All Stars Names Impinj Venture All Star Company of the Year
Impinj, Inc. (www.impinj.com) took home top honors as the 2005 Venture All Star Company of the year&trade at the 5th Annual Venture All Stars&trade Awards Gala and NASDAQ Golf Tournament held Friday, June 3, 2005 (www.ventureallstars.com).
ViewImpinj and TSMC Qualify AEON™ Memory
SEATTLE, Wash., June 20, 2005 – Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) business, has completed qualification of its AEON Memory, a portfolio of embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) cores, at leading semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) (TAIEX: 2330, NYSE: TSM.)
ViewPrintronix and Impinj Demonstrate Fully Interoperable Gen 2 Tag and Printer Encoding System
Printronix Inc. (NASDAQ: PTNX), the leading integrated supply-chain printing solutions manufacturer, and Impinj Inc., the Self- Adaptive Silicon® company, today announced that they have jointly demonstrated EPCglobal™ Generation 2 (Gen 2) interoperability.
ViewImpinj and Yeon Technologies Partner to Address Escalating Demand for High Performance RFID Solutions in Taiwan
Pioneering RFID Solutions Provider to Resell Taiwan National Communications Commission (NCC) Certified Impinj Speedway™ Reader
ViewPrecisia Partners With Impinj To Launch RFID Products
Precisia LLC, a leading developer of advanced printed electronics technologies, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Flint Ink Corporation, announced today that it is partnering with Impinj, Inc. to launch a line of RFID products utilizing Impinj's family of chips.
ViewImpinj's Monza™ Tag Silicon to Power First-Ever EPCglobal™ Compliant Gen 2 RFID System
Impinj, Inc., the Self-Adaptive Silicon® company, today announced the availability of Monza™, its EPCglobal™ Generation 2 (Gen 2) compliant RFID tag silicon, the first to fully support all features of the Gen 2 specification and allow customers to obtain maximum system performance. Monza will be demonstrated for the first time at the RFID Journal Live! Conference in Chicago on April 10-12, 2005.
ViewIntermec and Impinj Debut RFID Generation 2 Technology Collaboration
RFID pioneers Intermec Technologies Corp. and Impinj Inc. today announced a technology collaboration designed to bring the business benefits of EPCglobal Generation 2 RFID (radio frequency identification) to industries worldwide.
ViewImpinj Announces Investment by Digital Communications Luminary, Andrew Viterbi
Impinj, Inc, the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its high-performance Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products, today announces that Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi will join the company's investment group and technical advisory board.
ViewImpinj Announces Availability of AEFuse™ Memory – World's First Multi-Time Programmable Fuse in Standard Logic CMOS
Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) business, today announced the availability of Advanced Erasable Fuse, AEFuse™ memory, the silicon-proven, embedded nonvolatile memory cores which provide chip designers with the world's first multiple-times-programmable (MTP) fuse manufacturable in standard logic CMOS processes.
ViewImpinj and Texas Instruments Announce RFID Cooperation Agreement
Impinj, Inc, the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its high-performance radio frequency identification (RFID) products, and Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN), the world leader in digital signal processing, analog, and RFID technologies, today announced their agreement to cooperate in development of products that are compliant with the Class 1, Generation 2 (Gen 2) standard recently ratified by EPCglobal Inc.™ This cooperation will ensure interoperability among Gen 2 products offered by the two companies, while enabling both companies to improve time-to-market for their Gen 2 offerings.
ViewImpinj Demonstrates Working Generation 2 RFID Technology
Impinj, Inc, the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its high-performance Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products, today announced a significant milestone in the advancement of RFID technology with its demonstration of prototype UHF Generation 2 products on December 2, 2004 at MET Laboratories, the certification partner of EPCglobal Inc™.
ViewRed Herring Selects Impinj for Prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Innovators Award
Impinj announced today that it has been selected as a Top 100 Innovator by Red Herring. "Impinj is proud to be recognized by the Red Herring for our innovative RFID and Self-Adaptive Silicon technologies," said Dr. William Colleran, president and CEO of Impinj.
ViewImpinj Announces Interoperability of Zuma™ EPC Class 0 Silicon with 15 RFID Developers
Impinj, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its high-performance Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products, today announced that its Zuma™ RFID chips, which conform to the increasingly popular EPCglobal Class 0 standard, are interoperable with key products from 15 RFID supply chain solutions providers.
ViewAIM Global Announces Impinj as New Member
RFID Solutions Provider Joins Global Automatic Identification and Mobility Trade Association
ViewImpinj's Zuma™ RFID Silicon Available for High Volume Production
Long-range, High-Speed, Rewritable Chips Significantly Improve RFID System Performance
ViewFive New Customers License Impinj's AEON™ Memory
Impinj, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its two business lines: semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and high performance RFID products, today announced that its AEON™ memory, the industry's lowest cost, rewritable, embedded nonvolatile memory (NVM) technology, has been licensed by the following companies for use in a broad range of electronics products:
ViewImpinj Raises $22M to Accelerate RFID Product Development
ViewUnified Group of Data Collection and RFID Industry Leaders Support Proposed EPC UHF Generation 2 RFID Standard
Leading manufacturers and technology providers for data collection and RFID (radio frequency identification) have submitted an RFID protocol that paves the way for rapid adoption of a new worldwide RFID standard known as EPC UHF Generation 2. Companies supporting the protocol include Impinj, Inc., Intermec Technologies Corp. (a UNOVA, Inc. (NYSE:UNA) company), Q.E.D Systems, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), SAMSys Technologies (SMY:TSX-VEN), Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), and UPM Rafsec, along with several others.
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