Impinj's Larry Morrell Selected as Expert Panelist at Semiconductor IP/System-on-Chip Conference


SEATTLE, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- November 27, 2006 -- Impinj, Inc., the number one supplier of Gen 2 RFID chips and a market leader in embedded nonvolatile memories, announced today that Larry Morrell, vice president of Intellectual Property Products, will participate in two expert panels at the IP-based Design Conference and Exhibition (IP/SoC) in Grenoble, France on December 6-7, 2006.

Who:

Mr. Morrell is a semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and system-on-chip (SoC) design expert with more than 20 years of semiconductor industry experience with early-stage and established companies. Involved in many semiconductor industry innovations such as the launch of field programmable gate array (FPGA) methodologies and the first USB chips, Mr. Morrell was a founding member of the international standards body and trade association, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) and is a champion of logic nonvolatile memory SIP market initiatives. He earned a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Russian Languages from New Mexico State University.

What:   IP/SoC Conference
When:   December 6-7, 2006
Where:  Espace Congres du World Trade Center, Grenoble, France
Panel Topic 1:   "How to Evaluate and Choose Hard IP"
Panel Topic 2:   "Integrating Nonvolatile Memory in SoC Designs: Save Time
                 and Reduce Design Costs"
For more information, visit the conference organizer, Design and Reuse, website at: http://www.us.design-reuse.com/ipsoc2006/

About Impinj, Inc.

Impinj, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables its two synergistic business lines: high performance RFID products and innovative semiconductor intellectual property (IP). A leading contributor to the RFID standards for high volume supply-chain applications worldwide, Impinj leverages its technical expertise and industry partnerships to deliver the GrandPrix™ solution, comprising tags, readers, software and systems integration to offer RFID that just works™. Impinj's innovative IP products, core to the company's RFID tags, are licensed 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 embedded cores, which provides rewriteable NVM technology in logic CMOS manufacturing. For more information, visit www.impinj.com.

Impinj, Self-Adaptive Silicon, GrandPrix, AEON, and RFID that just works are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Impinj, Inc.

Contact Information: Editorial Contacts: Jim Donaldson Impinj, Inc. 206-834-1091 Email Contact Lynda Kaye Mango Communications for Impinj 650-799-2888 Email Contact