Chips & Silicon | RFID News

ASYGN

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:19:17 +0000

ASYGN designs electronic products and custom silicon from Grenoble, and its RFID work is the AS321x family of UHF sensor ICs. These are battery free and RAIN compliant, harvesting power from the reader while measuring temperature, humidity, strain or light, so a passive tag reports a condition rather than only an identity. The company also works on radio frequency design, inertial sensors and microcontrollers for AI at the edge, offering custom design services alongside its own product lines.

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EM Microelectronic

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:34:28 +0000

Swiss chip maker (Swatch Group): LF, HF and UHF tag ICs including the em|echo family.

Impinj

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:34:25 +0000

Impinj connects what’s physical in the real world to what’s possible in the AI-powered digital world. For over 25 years, Impinj has shaped and led the RAIN RFID market, connecting more than 160 billion items and deploying over 6 million connectivity devices. Our market leading products include M800 Endpoint ICs, E Family Reader ICs, and the R700 fixed RAIN RFID reader platform.

Infineon

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:34:28 +0000

Secure identification silicon: contactless smart card and NFC chips.

Murata

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:34:28 +0000

Miniature and embeddable RFID: ultra-small UHF and HF tags and modules.

NXP Semiconductors

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:34:26 +0000

Tag and reader silicon across all bands: UCODE (UHF), ICODE (HF), NTAG (NFC) and MIFARE families.

Powercast

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:19:06 +0000

Powercast develops wireless power and RF energy harvesting technology from Pittsburgh, founded in 2003. Its relevance to RFID is that it removes the battery from devices that would otherwise need one: the company supplies battery free sensor tags and the readers that power them over the air, alongside an edge platform of hubs and nodes, wireless charging and development kits. It holds a portfolio of more than three hundred patents and reports over thirty million units shipped worldwide.

Qualcomm Technologies

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:19:10 +0000

Qualcomm Technologies is the semiconductor and wireless business behind the Snapdragon platforms, headquartered in San Diego. Its relevance to RAIN is standards and integration rather than tag silicon: the company takes part in RAIN Alliance technical standards work, and sent both its director of business development and its director of technical standards to speak at RAIN in Action 2026 in Madrid. The interest lies in how RAIN data reaches the mobile and edge devices Qualcomm supplies.

Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics (FMSH)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:19:07 +0000

Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics, which trades as FMSH, designs ASICs and chip level solutions from Shanghai, founded in 1998 by a group aiming to build better smart card chips. Its security and identification line spans HF RFID tag ICs, UHF RFID tag ICs, NFC tag chips, HF reader chips and secured encryption chips, built on in house MCU core, EEPROM and RF technology. The company describes its UHF tag IC as combining high sensitivity, broad compatibility and reliable memory retention.

STMicroelectronics

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:34:28 +0000

ST25 family of NFC and RFID tag and reader ICs.