Entropic Selected as ''Startup of the Year'' Finalist by EDN Magazine In Its 2003 Innovation Of The Year Awards Competition.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2004 Entropic Communications, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif., has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist for this year's EDN Innovation of the Year Awards. Entropic was chosen as one of three finalists as "Startup of the Year" by EDN's editors. Entropic is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. producing a revolutionary chipset to enable fast (270Mbps), easy-to-install home networks using the existing coaxial cable infrastructure already installed in most U.S. homes. Entropic is a founding member of the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance The Multimedia over Coax Alliance develops specifications for home networking over in-home coaxial cable, which is commonly used for antenna connections to TVs and radios, and cable TV. (MoCA), formed to link consumer entertainment devices such as TVs, digital settop boxes, digital video recorders See DVR. (DVRs) DVDs, digital VHSs, CD/MP3 players, and PCs seamlessly throughout the home using its existing coax cabling. Other members include Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Comcast, EchoStar, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Motorola, RadioShack Corporation, and Toshiba. "We always get an outstanding set of entries to our Innovation program," said EDN Editor--in-Chief Maury Wright. "The chosen finalists should be proud of their selection because many worthy products barely missed the cut. I look forward to meeting with all of the participants at the awards banquet." In the next few weeks, EDN's worldwide audience of electronics engineers and engineering managers will use an online ballot to select the ultimate winners from among these finalists. EDN's editorial staff and the EDN Editorial Advisory Board also take part in determining the final winners. EDN encourages visits to www.edn.com and for readers to check out its Feb. 5, 2004 issue to review each of the nominees. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on March 29, 2004 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . About EDN EDN, the premier design magazine of the electronics industry, is published by Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. . Headquartered in Newton, Mass., EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN.com, the only full-content, EOEM publication and website. About Entropic Communications Entropic Communications is a privately held fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego, Calif. Entropic's products hold the promise to fundamentally change the way video and other broadband multimedia are used in homes. Since its founding in 2001, Entropic has raised $46 million from leading venture and strategic investors, including CMEA CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance CMEA Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm CMEA Canadian Music Educators' Association CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Aid CMEA Certified Machinery Equipment Appraiser CMEA Colorado Music Education Association , Mission Ventures, Redpoint, Cisco, Comcast, Intel, Motorola, Panasonic, and Time Warner. For more information: www.entropic-communications.com. |
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