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19 February 2008
EE Times Reveals the 2008 ACE Awards Finalists
Industry Leaders, Breakthrough Technologies and Ultimate Products Winners to be honored at ACE Awards Gala as part of ESC Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- CMP's EE Times (http://www.eetimes.com/) is proud to announce the finalists for the fourth Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards (http://www.eetimes-ace.com/), which recognize the electronics engineering industry's most innovative companies and breakthrough technologies. EE Times ACE Awards are judged by a panel of industry experts, comprised of the leading voices of academia, industry and Wall Street executives.
Winners will be honored at the ACE Awards Gala taking place on April 15, 2008 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The ACE Awards are 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 gathers to learn, collaborate and celebrate innovations.
Commentary:
Junko Yoshida, editor-in-chief, EE Times
"These finalists represent the top notch innovators and innovations within the embedded industry. The panel of judges evaluated hundreds of leading companies with breakthrough technologies for this competition and selected only those who we felt really exemplified growth, innovation and commitment to furthering the technology and the industry."
The 2008 ACE Awards finalists 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
IP&E
Processor/Memory
Logic Interface & Programmable Logic
Power
RF/Microwave
Test/Measurement
About EE Times ACE Awards
The EE Times ACE Awards honor the innovators who create embedded technology and demonstrate leadership in the global industry. To purchase tickets for the ACE Awards Gala visit: http://www.eetimes-ace.com/AwardsGala.htm. Early-bird priced tickets are on-sale until March 2, 2008, and all tickets, available until April 15, 2008, include a networking cocktail reception, three-course sit-down dinner, multi-media awards presentation ceremony, and entertainment by late night talk show host Craig Ferguson.
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/).
About ESC
ESC is where the global design engineering community gathers to learn, collaborate and celebrate innovation. Held in Silicon Valley, Boston and India, the Embedded Systems Conference empowers the global design engineering community with hundreds of essential technical training classes and accreditation opportunities. For more information and to register for our events visit http://www.cmp-egevents.com/.
About CMP
CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developer Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to http://www.cmp.com/news.
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