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NXP Q3: industrial surges, mobile slips, and RFID stays hidden inside the numbers

NXP Q3: industrial surges, mobile slips, and RFID stays hidden inside the numbers

Revenue of $3.79bn for the quarter ended 27 September 2026, with Industrial and IoT up 39 per cent and Mobile down 4 per cent. Neither figure is an RFID number:…

How RFID tracked tool containers at France’s Fessenheim nuclear plant before its closure

How RFID tracked tool containers at France’s Fessenheim nuclear plant before its closure

Dozens of metal tool containers at France's Fessenheim nuclear station were tagged with Xerafy on-metal UHF tags and read with handhelds, running on Nexess NexCap software. The site projected a…

Impinj tag chip revenue hits record $97m as demand outpaces supply

Impinj tag chip revenue hits record $97m as demand outpaces supply

Impinj sold a record number of RAIN RFID tag chips in the quarter to 30 September 2026, taking endpoint IC revenue to $97.3m, and met market need without getting ahead…

Choosing the Right RFID Tag for Your Environment

Choosing the Right RFID Tag for Your Environment

The wrong tag fails in any environment, and the right tag fails in the wrong one. Frequency comes first: LF for metal and liquid tolerance at centimetre range, HF for…

The Barcode Warehouse adds MishiPay’s RFID and scan-and-go checkout to UK retail portfolio

The Barcode Warehouse adds MishiPay’s RFID and scan-and-go checkout to UK retail portfolio

The Barcode Warehouse has added MishiPay's cloud checkout platform to its UK range, bringing RFID-enabled checkout, scan-and-go and self-checkout kiosks to the Newark reseller's portfolio. No UK retailer has signed…

Madhya Pradesh trials AI checkgates in Morena days before RFID tag deadline for mining trucks

Madhya Pradesh trials AI checkgates in Morena days before RFID tag deadline for mining trucks

Madhya Pradesh has given mineral hauliers until about 6 November 2026 to fit a radio frequency tag, but in Morena two AI checkgates and a 45 metre surveillance tower only…

Argentine polo mallet maker Logi Polo tracks every handmade mallet with RFID

Argentine polo mallet maker Logi Polo tracks every handmade mallet with RFID

An Argentine workshop of around 20 people has put an RFID chip in every polo mallet it makes, tied to the customer order and read at each bench as the…

Korean shops get NFC stickers that call police with a phone tap for lone female shopkeepers

Korean shops get NFC stickers that call police with a phone tap for lone female shopkeepers

SEMAS has put NFC smart safety tags on the counters of 75 shops in two Daejeon alley trading districts, letting a shopkeeper tap a phone to reach the 112 police…

RFID does not equal UHF: the whole family, and why the confusion costs buyers

RFID does not equal UHF: the whole family, and why the confusion costs buyers

RFID is a family of technologies, and the industry now uses the word to mean just one of them. LF at 125 and 134.2 kHz, HF and NFC at 13.56…

Poznan hospital director resigns as the region names RFID instrument tracking among its reasons for inspections

Poznan hospital director resigns as the region names RFID instrument tracking among its reasons for inspections

Prof. Dawid Murawa resigned as director of Poznan's Wielkopolska Provincial Hospital on 30 October 2026, blaming the national health fund and the region that owns the hospital. He never mentioned…