EE Times Announces 2009 ACE Awards Winners

Innovation in Electronics and Tomorrow's Green Technology Recognized

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ESC Silicon Valley -- TechInsight's EE Times has announced the winners of the fifth Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards honoring innovators who demonstrate global electronics industry leadership. Winners were announced at a ceremony yesterday at the Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California during the Embedded Systems Conference.

The winners by category are:

• Design Team of the Year: Motorola Design Integration Center
• Innovator of the Year: Stanley Williams, HP Senior Fellow & Director, Information & Quantum Systems Lab
• Executive of the Year: Necip Sayiner, President and CEO, Silicon Laboratories
• Startup of the Year Award: BLADE Network Technologies
• Company of the Year: Microchip Technology Inc.
• Most Promising New Technology: SiBEAM
• Best Enabler Award for Green Engineering: Cymbet Corporation
• Most Innovative Renewable Energy Award: Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
• Educator of the Year: Leah Jamieson, Dean of Engineering, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
• Student of the Year: David Yanoshak, Senior EE Student & Intern, University of Texas - Austin
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Chung-Mou 'Morris' Chang, Ph.D., Founding Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

TechInsights analyst firm Semiconductor Insights (SI) also recognized technology innovation at the EE Times ACE awards with the presentation of the Insight Awards. The winners by category are:

• Most Innovative Process Technology: Micron (IMFT) MT29F32G08 34nm, 32Gbit MLC, NAND Flash
• Most Innovative Mobile Processor: Intel 45nm Atom Processor
• Most Innovative Non-Volatile Memory: Toshiba TC58NVG4D2ETA10 43nm 16G NAND Flash
• Most Innovative DRAM: Micron MT47H64M16HR 50nm 1Gbit DDR2 SDRAM

Also named at the event were the IEEE Award winners. They are:

• IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society ACE Award: DARPA
• IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society ACE Award: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society ACE Award: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
• IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology ACE Award: Geodynamics

The EE Times ACE Awards were made possible in part by Silver Sponsor Xilinx and association media sponsor, IEEE Spectrum.

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