RFID Company: Upstart tech snares $22M

From MSNBC ... one of the region's premier semiconductor companies, received $22 million in financing for the startup's attempts to break into the rapidly evolving RFID sector ...

Impinj, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company developing CMOS integrated circuit products and solutions using its exclusive Self-Adaptive Silicon™ technology. Impinj's RFID products are targeted to meet the requirements set by the consumer packaged goods industry and deliver low cost, long range, field-rewritable functionality. The company also licenses AEON™, the world's first truly nonvolatile memory fabricated in logic CMOS. Advanced development in analog and mixed-signal circuit design has been the core competency for the company since its inception in 2000. Self-Adaptive Silicon™, uses transistor physics in a fundamentally new way, enabling precision analog and wideband RF in low-cost, high-density digital CMOS. Impinj's breakthrough provides a true competitive advantage, enabling mixed-signal Systems-On-Chip (SoC) products.