FSA Presents 2006 Awards.Winners Exemplify Excellence in Fabless Semiconductor Industry SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- FSA FSA Financial Services Authority FSA Food Standards Agency (UK) FSA Farm Service Agency (USDA) FSA Financial Services Agency (Japan) , the voice of the global fabless business model, announces the winners for its 2006 awards, presented at the 2006 FSA Awards Dinner Celebration on Thursday, December 7, 2006 in Santa Clara, Calif. Members of the semiconductor industry selected the Most Respected Private, Public, and Emerging Public Fabless Company Fabless Company The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) defines fabless as follows: Fabless (without fab) refers to the business methodology of outsourcing the manufacturing of silicon wafers, which hundreds of semiconductor companies have adopted. Award winners by identifying the companies they most respect in terms of product, vision and future opportunity. This yeareIUs public company winner is NVIDIA Corporation; the emerging public company winner is Atheros Communications, Inc. and the private company winner is Cavium Networks. FSA and financial analysts evaluated the health of public fabless semiconductor companies by comparing a number of financial indices to determine the winner of this yeareIUs Best Financially Managed Company Award, MediaTek Inc. Companies that doubled either revenue or net income over eight consecutive quarters ending June 2006 are eligible to receive the award for Outstanding Financial Performance by Public and Private Fabless Companies. Public company winners include Broadcom Corporation, CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. , Vimicro International Corporation and Wolfson Microelectronics. Private company winners are Apexone Microelectronics, Inphi Corporation, Impinj and Wintegra. FSAeIUs Venture Capital Advisory Board selected the Fabless Start-Up to Watch Award winner by identifying the company that has demonstrated the potential to positively change its market or the semiconductor industry in general through the innovative use of or a new application for semiconductor technology. The 2006 winner is Akros Silicon, Inc. Mark Edelstone of Morgan Stanley announced his Favorite Fabless Picks winner, based on historical and projected data, as Atheros Communications, Inc. The Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award recognizes individuals for their exceptional contributions to drive the development, innovation, growth and long-term opportunities for the fabless semiconductor industry. The 2006 award was presented to Kamran Elahian, chairman and co-founder of Global Catalyst Partners. For more detailed award criteria and a list of past award winners, visit www.fsa.org/awardsdinner. The 2006 FSA Awards Dinner Celebration is made possible through the support of this yeareIUs title sponsor, UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia , and sponsors including Accenture, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , AMI Semiconductor, ARM, Broadcom, Cadence, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing SGX: C27 NASDAQ: CHRT (abbreviated CSM) is the world's fourth largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Woodlands Industrial Park, Kranji Singapore. , Cirrus Logic, Conexant, Denali, Ernst & Young, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Invest Northern Ireland, Jazz Semiconductor, MagnaChip, Marvell, Morgan Stanley, NVIDIA, Oracle, QUALCOMM CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. Technologies, Samsung, SAP, STATS ChipPAC, Synopsys, Teradyne, TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code , Verigy and Xilinx. Media sponsors include PennWell and Reed Electronics Group. About FSA: FSA is the voice of the global fabless business model. Incorporated in 1994, FSA positively impacts the growth and return on invested capital of this business model to enhance the environment for innovation. It provides a platform for meaningful global collaboration between fabless companies and their partners; identifies and articulates opportunities and challenges to enable solutions; and provides research, resources, publications and survey information. Members include fabless companies and their supply chain and service partners, representing more than 21 countries across the globe. www.fsa.org. |
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