The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced the 2016 award nominees for the GSA Awards Dinner Celebration. Featuring a keynote by Dan Schulman, President and CEO of PayPal, the celebration will take place on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The program will recognize companies that have demonstrated excellence through their vision, strategy, execution and future opportunity. These companies will be honored for their achievements in several categories ranging from outstanding leadership to financial accomplishments, as well as overall respect within the industry.
The 2016 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award winner is Lip-Bu Tan, President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.and Founder and Chairman of Walden International.
The evening’s program will recognize leading semiconductor companies that have exhibited market growth through technological innovation and exceptional business management strategies. The award categories and nominees (in alphabetical order) are as follows:
Start-Up to Watch Award
Credo Semiconductor
Innovium, Inc.
Transphorm, Inc.
Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company Award
Aquantia Corporation
Movidius
Quantenna Communications, Inc.
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award (Achieving $100 to $500 Million in Annual Sales):
Nordic Semiconductor
Power Integrations, Inc.
Rambus, Inc.
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award (Achieving $500 Million to $1 Billion in Annual Sales):
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
Mellanox Technologies
Silicon Labs
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award (Achieving $1 Billion to $5 Billion in Annual Sales)
Analog Devices, Inc.
Microchip Technology, Inc.
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award (Achieving Greater than $5 Billion in Annual Sales)
MediaTek Inc.
NVIDIA Corporation
NXP Semiconductors N.V.
Best Financially Managed Semiconductor Company Award (Achieving Up to $1 Billion in Annual Sales):
Power Integrations, Inc.
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (Silicon Motion, Inc.)
Sitronix Technology Corporation
Best Financially Managed Semiconductor Company Award (Achieving Greater than $1 Billion in Annual Sales)
NVIDIA Corporation
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Analyst Favorite Semiconductor Company Award (chosen by analyst Quinn Bolton of Needham & Company, LLC)
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
Microsemi Corporation
Outstanding Asia Pacific Semiconductor Company Award
MediaTek Inc.
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Spreadtrum Communications, Inc.
Outstanding EMEA Semiconductor Company Award
Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC)
Movidius
Sckipio Technologies