2009 EE Times ACE Awards finalists announced

See the companies, executives, teams, and others selected as ACE Award finalists.

This year's ACE Awards promises to be especially interesting with not only the typical awards that you've come to expect, but with the addition of 'green' categories. Here are the finalists:

Company of the Year
EMC Corporation
Microchip Technology, Inc.
Qualcomm
SiGe Semiconductor
Silicon Laboratories

Startup of the Year
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 and President

Innovator of the Year
Agilent Technologies--Loren Betts, Research Scientist
HP--Stanley Williams, HP Senior Fellow and Director, Info
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

Best Enabler Award for Green Engineering
Cymbet Corporation
Energy Curtailment Specialists
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
Maxim Integrated Products
Solar Roadways

Most Innovative Renewable Energy
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
Advent Solar
Cymbet Corporation
Enphase Energy
Solaria Corp.

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 and Intern, University of Texas, Austin

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

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 HSPS1G83EFR 54nm 1Gb DDR2 SDRAM
Micron MT47H64M16HR 50nm 1Gbit DDR2 SDRAM
Samsung 58nm K4T1G164QE 1Gbit DDR2 SDRAM

The winners will be announced on March 31, 2009 at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley. Want to attend the ACE Awards free? Click here to register for a Free Expo Pass, including access to the EE Times ACE Awards. Enter Priority Code: EACE1.