Industry Leaders, Breakthrough Technologies and Ultimate Products were
honored last night at the ACE Gala, part of ESC Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- TechInsights' EE Times
(http://www.eetimes.com/) last night announced the winners of the fourth
annual Awards for Creativity in Electronics (ACE)
(http://www.eetimes-ace.com/), which recognize the electronics engineering
industry's most innovative companies and breakthrough technologies. EE
Times ACE winners were judged by a panel of industry experts, comprised of
the leading voices of academia, industry and Wall Street executives.
The winners were announced last night at the ACE Gala, part of ESC
Silicon Valley (http://www.cmp-egevents.com/web/esv/home), the largest
electronic systems design event in North America where the global design
engineering community gather to learn, collaborate and celebrate
innovations.
Commentary:
Junko Yoshida, editor-in-chief, EE Times
"Each year we review and evaluate hundreds of nominations and select those
products and individuals that most exemplify the innovations of the
embedded systems industry. The winners represent the technological
innovations that EE Times and ESC look to foster each year. These
breakthrough technologies and individuals will lead further growth and
collaboration in the coming years."
The 2008 ACE Awards Winners are:
Company of the Year -- Small/Medium (Under $750 million in sales) award
celebrates the company that exhibits the highest degree of professionalism,
staff development and retention, customer focus, technical excellence and
profitable growth -- a true leader in the electronics sector.
-- National Instruments
Company of the Year -- Large (Over $750 million in sales) award
celebrates the company that exhibits the highest degree of professionalism,
staff development and retention, customer focus, technical excellence and
profitable growth -- a true leader in the electronics sector.
-- Research In Motion
Design Team of the Year award goes to a group of innovators whose
system or IC-level design made a significant contribution to the
furtherance of technology and whose project management abilities were
creative, efficient and inspiring.
-- PA Semi -- PWRficient dual-core processor (PA6T-1682M)
Executive of the Year award goes to an individual who brought
leadership, technological and fiscal vision to a company, organization or
company division during a calendar year.
-- Research In Motion -- Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO
Innovator of the Year award goes to an individual who has brought
leadership, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking to technology, a product
or business.
-- IBM Research -- Dan Edelstein and Satya Nitta
Most Promising New Technology award goes to a compelling electronic
component or enabling technology, such as software, that is outstanding in
its technical design, potential for market impact and demonstrates
leadership in its area.
-- XID Technologies -- Face Synthesis
Start-up of the Year award goes to a venture capital (or pre-IPO
financed) start-up (under three years in business) electronics
manufacturing (device or system) company that demonstrates excellence in
business development and/or technology development processes with the
potential to become a technical or market leader in the global electronics
industry.
-- Blade Networks Technology
Ultimate Products of the Year awarded to the most significant product
introduced in the last 12 months in each of seven categories, as determined
by large-scale peer review. Finalists in each category were chosen by
qualified readers of EE Times and eeProductCenter.com on a quarterly basis
via electronic balloting, from a list of nominees submitted to readers by
expert editors with accompanying editorial reviews. The top two ranking
products from each category over the past four quarters automatically
qualify as finalists. Electronic ballots will be sent to frequent
responders to select the winner in each category from the field of
finalists.
Analog
-- SiP12510, SiP12511 White LED Drivers (Vishay)
IP&E
-- SL3 Series Stack Lamp (DDP)
Processor/Memory
-- I25FB and A25FB Flash Disks (Adtron Corp)
Logic Interface & Programmable Logic
-- 3ware 9650SE SATA RAID Controller Family (Applied Micro
Circuits Corp.)
Power
-- UCD9240 Integrated Power System Controllers (Texas Instruments)
RF/Microwave
-- ZL70101 Transceiver Chip (Zarlink)
Test/Measurement
-- N6705A DC Power Analyzer (Agilent Technologies)
Student of the Year
Guruprasad Madhavan, MS, MBA
PhD Candidate
State University of New York (Binghamton)
Educator of the Year
Moira Gunn
Program Director
University of San Francisco
Editors Choice
Carson Page
Hutton Elementary
Georgetown, TX
Lifetime Achievement
Ray Stata
Analog Devices
IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society
Vattenfall
IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award
IBM
About EE Times ACE Awards
The EE Times ACE Awards honor the innovators who create embedded
technology and demonstrate leadership in the global industry. Sponsorship
for the EE Times ACE Awards includes Platinum Sponsorship from Avnet
(http://www.avnet.com/), Silver Sponsorship from Rambus
(http://www.rambus.com/us/), Association Media Sponsorship from IEEE
Spectrum (http://spectrum.ieee.org/) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company Limited (TSMC) Ecosystem Sponsorship from Analog Bits
(http://www.analogbits.com/) and Cadence (http://www.cadence.com/).
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