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UBM Announces the 2017 Annual Creativity in Electronics Awards Winners Company of the Year: Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
Coming on heels of the news of 700% growth YoY and reaching $100M revenue milestone, this may have surprised few watchers of the semiconductor industry. The industry will be keen to see the next steps of Achronix - especially with positive vibes on the Speedcore front. Embedded FPGAs (eFPGA) has already been enhanced with introduction of custom blocks.
Congrats! Well deserved, sorry I missed it. My wife and I went to the SiFive Holiday party at the Four Seasons. I was not able to find a list of the winners though. Who won executive of the year? Design Team?
UBM Announces the 2017 Annual Creativity in Electronics Awards Winners Company of the Year: Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
Coming on heels of the news of 700% growth YoY and reaching $100M revenue milestone, this may have surprised few watchers of the semiconductor industry. The industry will be keen to see the next steps of Achronix - especially with positive vibes on the Speedcore front. Embedded FPGAs (eFPGA) has already been enhanced with introduction of custom blocks.
The 2017 ACE Award winners are:
Company of the Year: Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
Executive of the Year: Sam Heidari - Quantenna
Design Team of the Year: NEO Tech - NEO Tech Design Services
Internet of Things Product of the Year: Analog Devices - SmartMesh IP with Virtual Manager
Tomorrow's Reality: Bedrock Automation - Bedrock Open Secure Automation System with Cybershield 2.0
Ultimate Products Category Winners:
Analog ICs: Analog Devices - LTC2947
Automotive: Maxim Integrated - MAX2175 Remote Tuner Solution
Development Kits: Nordic Semiconductor - Nordic Thingy:52
LEDs and Lighting: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors - IR OSLON - SFH 4735
Logic/Interface/Memory: Marvell Technology Group - Marvell 88NV1160 DRAM-less SSD controller
Passive, Interconnects and Electromechanical: Vishay Intertechnology - T59 Polymer Surface-Mount Chip Capacitors
Power: Maxwell Technologies - Maxwell Technologies Generator Starting Solutions (GSS)
Processors (CPUs, MPUs, MCUs, SoC, FPGAs): Cypress Semiconductor Corp. – PsoC 6
Sensors: Texas Instruments - mmWave
Software: Jungo Connectivity Ltd. - CoDriver
Test and Measurement Systems and Boards: Tektronix - 5 Series MSO
Wireless/RF: Maja Systems - 60Ghz CMOS Single Chip Transceiver
In addition, the ACE Awards also honored Ajay Bhatt, former chief architect at Intel and co-creator of USB, with the Lifetime Achievement Award; and Daniel Beeker, principal engineer, NXP Semiconductor, with the first-ever ESC Speaker of the Year Award.
