Freescale Wins EE Times ACE Awards; Company Earns Innovator of the Year and Executive of the Year Honors at 2nd Annual Creativi
April 05 2006 - 6:17PM
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EE Times recognized Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B)
engineer Leo Mathew as its Innovator of the Year and Freescale
Chairman and CEO Michel Mayer as its Executive of the Year at its
Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards Tuesday, April 4.
Mathew, a principal solid state engineer, was honored for his
invention of a novel transistor structure that could help push the
boundaries of Moore's Law. Mayer, who joined Freescale in May 2004,
was honored for leading the company to seven consecutive quarters
of profitability, reenergizing the corporate culture and starting
to build a global brand. "Leo Mathew is one of the world's foremost
experts on the design and manufacture of advanced semiconductors,
and this year, is honored with the ACE Award for Innovator of the
Year," said Brian Fuller, publisher and editor in chief of EE
Times. "His 2005 breakthrough demonstrates a clear and feasible
approach to extending CMOS processes to the 45-nm node and possibly
beyond. Leo has looked outside the semiconductor industry for
inspiration and demonstrated the kind of innovative thinking that
is essential for the creation of major technology breakthroughs."
"Congratulations to Leo for this much-deserved recognition and to
our wireless and automotive design teams who were finalists in
their categories," said Mayer. "The Executive of the Year honor is
an individual award, but our progress at Freescale over the past 21
months is the result of great teamwork. I share this award with the
23,000 employees worldwide who have shown a renewed sense of focus,
collaboration and competitive fire." Mathew's transistor structure
is an inverted T-channel field-effect transistor (ITFET). It
combines vertical and horizontal structures into a single
transistor. The technology promises to extend progressive CMOS
scaling to the 45-nanometer and finer process nodes. See "Novel
Transistor Architecture from Freescale Breaks Through CMOS Scaling
Barriers", Dec 5, 2005 http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.
zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=831683&highlight=
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also need to remove any extra spaces in the URL.) The EE Times ACE
Awards were created to recognize the people, companies and products
that show leadership in the electronics industry, honoring those
who are leading the way and making positive contributions -- the
real innovators of technology. Finalists were evaluated by a
prestigious panel of judges, comprised of the leading voices of
academia, industry and Wall Street executives. Awards were
presented at the EE Times ACE Awards Gala on April 4, 2006, during
CMP Media's Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley. For more
information, visit http://www.eetimes.com/ace. In addition,
Freescale was a finalist in the following categories. Design Team
of the Year Freescale's i.MX31 and i.MX31L multimedia applications
processors were finalists for Design Team of the Year. Starting at
532 MHz, with a vector floating point co-processor and L2 cache,
these processors are designed for portable and wireless devices
running computationally-intensive multimedia applications.
www.freescale.com/imx31 Processor/Memory Freescale's MPC5200B,
designed for next-generation telematics and infotainment solutions,
was a finalist for Processor/Memory. With 760 million instructions
per second (MIPS) of processing power, it offers vehicle
manufacturers an automotive processor that can unite in-car
infotainment and navigation applications. It is also well-suited
for networking, media, industrial control and robotics
applications.
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URL.) About Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
(NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and
manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive,
consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale
became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50
years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin,
Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or
sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of
the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor
companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD). www.freescale.com.
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