Impinj Introduces Monza(TM) 3 RFID Tag Chips With Industry-Leading Performance
Newest UHF Gen 2 Chip Offering Improves Data Accuracy and Enables New Applications
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - March 27, 2008) - Leading UHF Gen 2 radio frequency
identification (RFID) solutions provider Impinj, Inc. today unveiled
Monza™ 3 tag chips with high-performance tag read and write reliability
optimized for successful enterprise-wide RFID deployments.
Designed for both near- and far-field applications tagging everything from
items to pallets, Monza 3 chips undergo rigorous testing and provide a
number of RFID performance advantages over competitive products including:
-- Up to 40% improvement in tag read sensitivity
-- increases readability of tags on previously "difficult to tag" items and
materials such as metals, liquids and products within densely packed cases
and pallets
-- significantly expands tag placement options
-- Greater than 2X improvement in tag write sensitivity
-- enables new item-level applications such as high-speed mass
serialization and real-time field commissioning
-- allows encoding, aggregation and association of items to cases, or cases
to pallets, in a single, reliable step
-- Industry-leading interference rejection
-- improves read reliability in dense RF environments where fluorescent
lighting, cordless phones, mobile radios, etc. interfere with tag operation
-- provides increased reader channel selection flexibility in regions with
limited frequency bands available for RFID operation
-- Unique dual antenna input configuration
-- establishes redundant opportunities for contact between chip and inlay
-- further increases tag readability
-- allows greater flexibility in tag orientation and position
"We are very pleased to be able to offer our next generation of Rafsec UHF
tags and inlays based on Impinj's Monza 3 tag chips," said Christer
Härkönen, senior vice president RFID at UPM Raflatac. "We have had great
customer success with Monza-based products in the past and look forward to
continuing to deliver the highest quality and performance products using
Impinj's superior RFID silicon technology."
"We have once again raised the bar when it comes to RFID tag chip
functionality, quality and performance," said William Colleran, president
and CEO of Impinj. "Monza 3 tag chips solve many RFID deployment issues
while enabling new and exciting RFID applications."
First introduced in April 2005, Impinj's family of Monza tag chips are
successfully deployed in the pharmaceutical, apparel, food safety and
general retail supply chain sectors. Monza tag chips are compliant with
EPCglobal's UHF Gen 2 RFID specifications for conformance and
interoperability and operate globally in the 840-960 MHz band.
Monza 3 tag chips are sampling to leading RFID tag and inlay manufacturers
and will be available in production quantities starting in May 2008.
Information about Impinj's network of RFID solution providers is available
at www.impinj.com/rfid/where-to-buy.aspx.
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 solutions and semiconductor intellectual property
(IP). Impinj is the leading technical innovator in developing UHF RFID
solutions for both item-level and supply-chain tagging worldwide. Impinj
draws on its technical expertise and industry partnerships to deliver the
GrandPrix™ RFID solution comprising high-performance tags, readers,
software, antennas and systems integration. Impinj also licenses innovative
IP products 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, and AEON are
either registered trademarks or trademarks of Impinj, Inc.
Contact Information: Editorial Contacts:
Jim Donaldson
Impinj, Inc.
206-834-1091
Lynda Kaye
Mango Communications for Impinj
650-799-2888