5-billion-unit milestone announced as Impinj partners showcase leading-edge solutions based on Impinj M800 series and Impinj Gen2X at RFID Journal Live

SEATTLE: #RAINRFID--Impinj, Inc. (NASDAQ: PI), a leading RAIN RFID provider and Internet of Things pioneer, today announced that its M800 series tag chip shipment volume surpassed 5 billion units earlier this year, becoming the company’s fastest-growing tag chip ever. The 5-billion-unit milestone, which represents nearly 10% of the RAIN RFID industry’s total 2024 shipments, highlights enterprise adoption of the M800 series to solve operational challenges by gaining real-time visibility of their assets and goods across their global operations.

The M800 series delivers exceptional readability even in large tag populations, on densely packed items, and on traditionally hard-to-read items such as those containing liquids and metals. The M800 series includes support for Gen2X, an enhancement to the RAIN radio standard that speeds inventory, increases tag read range, declutters the environment, protects consumers, inhibits label and item counterfeiting, and reduces solution cost.

Wide industry adoption

Impinj partners have launched more than 85 inlays using M800 series tag chips. Inlays are the combined chip and antenna that are attached to or embedded in items to provide item connectivity. Among these inlays, using either the Impinj M830 or M850 tag chips, more than 40 have been quality tested and certified by Auburn University’s ARC program. These inlays are applied by enterprises to retail apparel, footwear, home goods, grocery, and other general merchandise.

“We’re pleased to see our partners’ enthusiasm for the M800 series, and the innovative range of products they’re producing,” said Gahan Richardson, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Impinj Business Unit. “It’s already clear that our partners are leveraging the enhanced performance and manufacturability of these chips to develop small, high-performance inlays that help enterprises connect more items and increase their operational efficiency.”

To support partners in their rapid adoption, Impinj made investments in manufacturability and industrialization, quality assurance, and continuous improvement, as well as ensuring tagged items meet the rigorous quality standards enterprises require. In 2023, Impinj opened a 29,000-square-foot facility to support RAIN tag chip development and industrialization, inlay design and assembly, and solutions prototyping and testing. That facility includes tag chip bonders, inlay test machines, Voyantic test systems, anechoic chambers, and much more. Impinj has built and tested millions of inlays using M800 series tag chips to ensure quality and reliability.

The future of RAIN-enabled item visibility

Impinj solution partners, having seen the increased system performance made possible by the industry-leading M800 series tag chips, are launching solutions and devices with support for Gen2X to solve previously unsolvable enterprise use cases, reduce solution cost, or both.

“In our handheld inventory testing with the Urovo DT50P, which supports Gen2X, we have seen up to 40% improvement in reading ability and 70% increase in inventory speed with Impinj M800 series tag chips,” said Bo Zhang, the CTO of UROVO PTE. LIMITED. “The exceptional readability is enabling new use cases like tagging of cosmetics and groceries, while the increase in inventory speed is creating operational efficiencies for our customers by reducing the time required to inventory a store or warehouse.”

Innovation on display at RFID Journal Live 2025

Experience Impinj partners’ products at RFID Journal LIVE! in Las Vegas, May 6-8. Tag partners showcasing Impinj M800-based labels and inlays include Checkpoint, Hana, and Tageos. Device partners showcasing Impinj Gen2X-enabled readers include UROVO, RoyalRay, SLS, Chainway, Seuic, and Silion.

About Impinj

Impinj (NASDAQ: PI) helps businesses solve operational challenges and improve consumer experience by wirelessly connecting billions of everyday things — such as apparel, automobile parts, luggage, and shipments — to the Internet. The Impinj platform uses RAIN RFID to deliver timely data about these everyday things to business and consumer applications, enabling a boundless Internet of Things. www.impinj.com

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Fonte: Business Wire