Company of the Year

EMC Corporation

Microchip Technology Inc.

Qualcomm

SiGe Semiconductor

Silicon Laboratories

 

Startup of the Year Award

Achronix Semiconductor Corp.

BLADE Network Technologies

Cypress Envirosystems

Nextivity Inc.

Open Kernel Labs

 

Executive of the Year

Brocade
Michael Klayko
CEO

HP
Prith Banerjee
Senior Vice President, Research

Silicon Laboratories
Necip Sayiner
President and CEO

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
David Aldrich
President and CEO

Verigy
Keith Barnes
Chairman, CEO & President

 

Innovator of the Year

Agilent Technologies
Loren Betts
Research Scientist

HP
Stanley Williams
Senior Fellow & Director, Information & Quantum Systems Lab

Samplify Systems
Al Wegener
Founder and CTO

SECNAP Network Security Corporation
Michael Scheidell
President and CTO

TI
Arun Chhabra
Business Development Manager

 

Design Team of the Year

AMCC

Altera Corporation

Motorola Design Integration Center

National Semiconductor Corp.

Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

 

Most Promising New Technology

Analog Devices, Inc.

Flexible Display Center at ASU

HP

Kovio, Inc.

SiBEAM

 

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Best Enabler Award for Green Engineering

Cymbet Corporation

Energy Curtailment Specialists

Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation

Maxim Integrated Products

Solar Roadways

 

Most Innovative Renewable Energy Award

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

Advent Solar

Cymbet Corporation

Enphase Energy

Solaria Corp.

 

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Chung-Mou 'Morris' Chang, Ph.D.
Founding Chairman
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC).

 

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

 

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2008 Insight Awards Finalists

Most Innovative Process Technology Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA 40nm Intel 45nm Atom Processor Micron (IMFT) MT29F32G08 34nm NAND Flash Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 45nm Processor ("Shanghai") Samsung K9GAG08U0D 42nm16Gbit MLC NAND Flash Toshiba TC58NVG4D2ETA10 43nm 16Gb MLC NAND   Most Innovative Mobile Processor Intel 45nm Atom Processor Qualcomm QSD8650 Mobile Processor (Snapdragon Platform) Samsung S5L8900B01 Applications Processor Sandbridge SB3500 Flexible Baseband Processor Texas Instruments 65nm OMAP3530 Applications Processor

Most Innovative Non-Volatile Memory Micron (IMFT) MT29F32G08 34nm NAND Flash Samsung K9GAG08U0D 42nm16Gbit MLC NAND Flash Toshiba TC58NVG4D2ETA10 43nm 16Gb MLC NAND   Most Innovative DRAM Hynix 66nm 1G DDR3 DRAM Hynix H5PS1G83EFR 54nm 1Gb DDR2 SDRAM Micron MT47H64M16HR 50nm 1Gbit DDR2 SDRAM Samsung 58nm K4T1G164QE 1Gbit DDR2 SDRAM

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2009 IEEE SPECTRUM AWARDS

IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology ACE Award

DARPA

Geodynamics

ImSAR

Intel

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

QD Laser

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

University of Tokyo

IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society ACE Award

DARPA

Geodynamics

ImSAR

Intel

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

QD Laser

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

University of Tokyo

 

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2009 ACE Awards Finalists

2008 ACE Awards Finalists

2007 ACE Awards Finalists

2006 ACE Awards Finalists

2005 ACE Awards Finalists