Impinj 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(R) Reader
SEATTLE, WA and TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 7, 2007 -- Leading UHF Gen 2 radio
frequency identification (RFID) tag chip and reader supplier Impinj, Inc.
today announced an agreement with Yeon Technologies, a wholly owned
subsidiary of the YFY Group providing value-added RFID services, to resell
Impinj's high-performance, Speedway® UHF Gen 2 RFID reader in Taiwan. The
newest member of Impinj's expanding value-added reseller (VAR) program,
Yeon Technologies deploys RFID solutions incorporating the Impinj Speedway
reader for a variety of supply-chain and asset tracking applications.
ABI Research expects to see a significant increase in demand for RFID
technology from Taiwanese companies in 2007. "As in other Asia-Pacific
country markets, supply-chain companies in Taiwan are quickly realizing the
significant supply-chain efficiency benefits, business process
improvements, and value propositions that are possible with
high-performance, RFID solutions at the pallet, case, and item-level," said
Michael Liard, RFID and Contactless Research director at ABI. "The
partnership between Impinj and Yeon Technologies is expected to help enable
local product manufacturers and distributors to ramp up RFID solutions
development and spur end-user adoption in Taiwan."
"Yeon Technologies' extensive market knowledge and progressive approach to
RFID adoption support Impinj's global technology delivery strategies," said
Dimitri Desmons, vice president of RFID marketing at Impinj. "We also share
a common vision for the advancement of worldwide RFID standards and quality
metrics." Impinj and Yeon Technologies are active members of leading RFID
standards organization EPCglobal. In addition, Yeon Technologies is a
founding member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Auto ID Center,
the leading global network of academic research laboratories in the RFID
field.
"We are very excited to partner with Impinj to deliver the best RFID
products and solutions to leading supply-chain companies in Taiwan," said
Yeon Technologies President Nancy Tai. "Proven RFID technology is key to
improving product supply-chain efficiency in our region, and we look
forward to enabling RFID adoption in the coming months."
Successfully deployed in large retail and distribution environments
worldwide, the Impinj Speedway reader received certification to operate in
Taiwan under National Communications Commission (NCC) regulations. The
Speedway reader supports a broad range of use cases at the pallet, case and
item level, delivers best-in-class read reliability and throughput, and
includes a flexible software architecture that facilitates required
maintenance and monitoring functions. In addition, the Speedway reader
carries both EPCglobal's Gen 2 Compliance Certification and
Interoperability Certification marks, which assure predictable hardware
operation in system implementations.
Production quantities of the Speedway reader are available from Yeon
Technologies and Impinj's other VAR and original equipment manufacturer
(OEM) partners worldwide.
About Impinj, Inc.
Impinj, Inc. is a semiconductor and RFID company whose patented
Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables two synergistic business lines:
high-performance RFID products and semiconductor intellectual property
(IP). A leading contributor to the RFID standards for high-volume
supply-chain applications worldwide, Impinj leverages technical expertise
and industry partnerships to deliver the GrandPrix™ solution, comprising
tags, readers, software and systems integration to offer RFID that just
works™. Impinj licenses innovative IP products, core to the company's
RFID tags, to leading semiconductor companies worldwide, allowing them to
seamlessly integrate crucial nonvolatile memory (NVM) alongside analog and
digital functionality on a single chip. Impinj's IP products include the
popular AEON® family of embeddable cores, which provide rewriteable NVM
technology in logic CMOS manufacturing. For more information, visit
www.impinj.com.
Impinj, Speedway, Self-Adaptive Silicon, GrandPrix, Monza, "RFID that just
works," and AEON are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Impinj,
Inc.
About Yeon Technologies
Yeon Technologies specializes in developing innovative UHF RFID products
and providing integration and implementation services including RFID
business value assessment, lab and field-testing, custom design services,
EPCglobal performance testing, RFID hardware and middleware installation,
and RFID training. Founded in October 2006 as a wholly owned subsidiary of
YFY Group in Taipei, Taiwan, which is the first EPCglobal Asian end-user
member, Yeon's mission is to provide value-added RFID services and
innovative products to its clients, and enable them to leverage the
efficiency, accuracy, and convenience that RFID provides. For more
information, visit www.YEONtech.com.