Impinj Expands Product Portfolio with Acquisition of Intel's UHF RFID Reader Chip Operation

(Business News & Technology News, 11 Jul 2008)

UHF Gen 2 radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions provider Impinj Inc. has acquired Intel Corp.'s RFID operation, a business created by Intel's New Business Initiatives (NBI) incubator and which developed the award-winning R1000 RFID reader chip.

The acquisition of Intel assets further enhances Impinj's position in the RFID market by adding a proven, high-performance, highly integrated reader radio chip to the Impinj family of UHF Gen 2 RFID products. For developers of UHF RFID readers and reader-modules, the R1000 chip provides superior levels of design flexibility, integrating onto a single chip 90 percent of the components required for a reader radio. By delivering unprecedented performance, integration and cost effectiveness to a worldwide customer base, the R1000 chip enables all reader form factors—fixed, mobile, embedded and others—in applications across numerous vertical markets, including supply chain management, asset tracking, authentication and access control.

"This acquisition is a huge step for Impinj, accelerating our drive to deliver the highest performance, most cost effective RFID products available from any vendor anywhere," says William T. Colleran, Ph.D., President and CEO of Impinj. "Adding the R1000 reader chip to Impinj's portfolio of tag chips and fixed-reader products allows us to deliver exceptional price-performance and enable a new category of customers who are developing their own game-changing products based upon Impinj technology."

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