HONG KONG, March 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Texas Instruments, NXP and Apexone were among the 24 semiconductor companies that won Global Sources' (Nasdaq: GSOL) Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards in mainland China. The ACE Awards honor companies for enabling mainland China's design engineers to develop innovative electronics.
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The ACE Awards, sponsored by Electronic Engineering Times-China (EE Times-China), were held in conjunction with the 12th Annual International IC-China Conference & Exhibition, mainland China's largest IC industry trade event.
EE Times-China Publisher, Mark A. Saunderson, said: "With more than 90 percent of mainland China's electronics designs depending on imported technologies, these are the companies that are driving growth in the industry."
ACE Award Company of the Year winners announced today at the Marco Polo Hotel in Shenzhen, China are:
-- Brand of the Year -- Texas Instruments
-- Outstanding Services of the Year -- NXP Semiconductors
-- Startup of the Year -- Apexone Microelectronics
ACE Award Product of the Year winners are:
-- AD/DA converter ICs: Analog Devices, Texas Instruments
-- Amplifier ICs: Analog Devices, National Semiconductor
-- Interface ICs: Analogix Semiconductor, National Semiconductor
-- Logic & Programmable Logic: Altera, Xilinx
-- Microcontrollers (MCUs): Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments
-- Memory: Cypress Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor
-- Power: Linear Technology, ON Semiconductor
-- Processors & DSPs: Analog Devices, Texas Instruments
-- RF & Microwave: Freescale Semiconductor, RDA Microelectronics
-- Test & Measurement: Agilent Technologies, National Instruments
The Editor's Choice Award for most significant semiconductor technology or technical solution of 2006 was presented by EE Times-China's Editor-in-Chief Yorbe Zhang to Tektronix for their RSA6100A series real-time spectrum analyzer.
A complete list of winners and finalists is available at http://www.eetchina.com/ace/EN/HOME_EN.HTM .
The 2007 ACE Awards in mainland China were sponsored by Atmel (gold sponsor), and by Micrel, Microchip Technology and Marco Polo Hotel Shenzhen (silver sponsors).
EE Times-China magazine and website ( http://www.eetchina.com ) are published by eMedia Asia Ltd., a joint venture between Global Sources and CMP.
Global Sources' Electronics Trade Shows
Through its electronics publications, Global Sources sponsors Greater China's key electronics industry events, which include International IC-China Conference & Exhibition ( http://www.english.china.iicexpo.com ), Embedded Systems Conference-Taiwan ( http://www.english.taiwan.escasiaexpo.com ), EDA & Test-Taiwan Conference & Exhibition ( http://www.english.taiwan.edatexpo.com ) and the China Sourcing Fair: Electronics & Components ( http://www.chinasourcingfair.com ).
Together, these make up Global Sources' complete 'design-to-export' products and services for Greater China's electronics industry.
For more information about Global Sources, visit http://www.corporate.globalsources.com .
About Global Sources
Global Sources is a leading business-to-business (B2B) media company and a primary facilitator of two-way trade with Greater China. The core business is facilitating trade from Greater China to the world, using a wide range of English-language media. The other key business segment facilitates trade from the world to Greater China using Chinese-language media.
The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 560,000 active buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in 230 countries.
The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 1.8 million products and more than 150,000 suppliers annually through 13 online marketplaces, 11 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and nine specialized trade shows which run 22 times a year across seven cities.
Suppliers receive more than 10 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online ( http://www.globalsources.com ) alone.
Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 36 years. In mainland China it has over 1,600 team members in 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for
Chinese-language media.
Global Sources Press Contact in Asia:
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