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AspenCore, the world’s largest media group within the technical electronics sector, held the 2018 China IC Design Awards presentation ceremony and China IC Leader Summit today at Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel in Shanghai, China. At the Summit, industry experts and senior executives from EDA, IP as well as IC design and manufacturing companies discussed how China’s fast-growing IC industry shall leverage the AI opportunity and position itself for development in the global market.
During the awards ceremony, 24 innovative ICs were awarded “Best Product of the Year” in eight categories. Awards were also presented to winners, selected through online voting by engineers, in the following categories: Top 10 China IC Brands, Top 5 Outstanding Technical Support Companies, Top 5 Innovative China IC Design Companies, Top 5 Most Promising China IC Design Companies, Outstanding IP Company, Outstanding Packaging/Test Company and Outstanding EDA Company. Additionally, there were 14 Editors’ Choice Awards, selected by AspenCore’s senior analysts in China, including the “Outstanding Contributor to China IC Industry” presented to Professor Wei Shaojun, Chairman of IC Design Branch of China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA).
“Our sincere congratulations to all winners of 2018 China IC Design Awards! The remarkable pace of AI advancement is fueling semiconductor innovations worldwide, levelling the playing field for China IC design companies in the global market,” said Victor Gao, Worldwide Publisher and Managing Director of AspenCore. “Meanwhile, the ‘Internet of Things’ is gradually evolving into the ‘Internet of Me’. This means that IC design companies – and the electronics engineering community in general – will need to have knowledge in cloud computing, telecommunications, machine learning, deep learning and even humanities, finance and other cross-domain skills as they embark on continuous innovation.”
“With rapid development in capabilities of local IC design and manufacturing companies, China’s semiconductor industry has not only gained market share in numerous traditional market segments, but also made breakthroughs in emerging areas such as AI,” said Yorbe Zhang, Head of Content and Head of AspenCore APAC. “The China IC Design Awards program has witnessed the continuous growth of the industry for more than 10 years, and we believe local fabless will play a much more important role in the global market in the decade to come.”
Unveiling 2018 China IC Design Awards winners
Company awards winners of 2018 China IC Design Awards, selected by AspenCore’s electronics engineering community in China, include (winners in each category listed in alphabetical order):
Top 10 China IC Brands
- AWINIC
- Allwinner Technology
- GigaDevice
- GOODIX
- HUADA SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
- ISSI
- SG Micro Corp
- SILAN
- Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA
- VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.
Top 5 Outstanding Technical Support Companies
- Brite Semiconductor
- Cellixsoft
- CHIPLINK
- LowPower Semiconductor
- TELINK
Top 5 innovative China IC Design Companies
- Liisemi
- NOVOSENSE
- Ruichips
- SINOMCU
- Si-POWER
Top 5 Most promising China IC Design Companies
- Giantec
- GOWIN
- SEMIONE
- SUNVOLVE
- Winner Micro
Outstanding Company of the Year
- Outstanding EDA Company of the Year: Cadence
- Outstanding IP Company of the Year: arm
- Outstanding Packaging/Test Company: JCET
Editors’ Choice Awards (selected by AspenCore’s senior analysts team)
- Outstanding Contributor to China IC Industry: Wei Shaojun
- Executive of the Year: Xiao Hong, NewVision
- Creative Marketing Executive of the Year: Andy Yao, STC Micro
- Special Contribution to China IC Industry: HUAWEI
- China IC Design Team of the Year: Power Components Design Team, Sanrise-tech
- China IC Marketing Team of the Year: AWINIC
- Outstanding Market Performance Award – Smart Devices: PROTRA
- Outstanding Market Performance Award – IoT: CHIPSEA
- Outstanding Market Performance Award – Automotive Electronics: Xi’an Semipower Electronic Technology Co., Ltd
- Outstanding Market Performance Award – AI: Cambricon
- Rising Marketing Executive of the Year: Jin Guangyi, GigaDevice
- Innovative IP Company of the Year: C-SKY
- Innovative EDA Company of the Year: Mentor, A Siemens Business
- Breakthrough EDA Technology in China: Huada Empyrean Software Co., Ltd.
Best Product of the Year
(Selected by AspenCore’s electronics engineering community in China; winners in each category are listed in alphabetical order of company names)
Best RF/Wireless IC of the Year
- Smart wireless audio chip/BES2000-X (BES)
- Embedded Wi-Fi SoC chip/W500 (Winner Micro)
- RoseFinch7100 (ZTE Microelectronics Technology)
Best Power Management IC of the Year
- Reconfigurable Digital Power Management chip/EDP3010 (EASE POWER)
- 4K/8K HD TV Panel TCON PMU / LP6288 (LowerPower Semi)
- High-performance and High Voltage Synchronous rectifier control chip/LP35116 series (Chip Hope Micro Electronics)
Best Power Device of the Year
- Vehicle IGBT Module/BG600F12LNP6 (BYD Microelectronics Co., Ltd)
- High performance Super knot applied to charging pile MOSFET/SRC65R041B (Sanrise-tech)
- MOS /PED3312M (SEMIONE)
Best Driver / LED Driver IC of the Year
- Display touch-integrated single chip solutions for reduced design of amorphous silicon panel light masks /FT8006M (FocalTech)
- 4K2K Super HD TV Display driver IC/NV2047 (NewVision)
- Single chip lithium-ion protection solution/PT600X series (PowTech)
Best FPGA/Memory/Processor of the Year
- Face Recognition module/DP-1200-F01 (DeePhi Technology Co., Ltd)
- Embedded Artificial Intelligence Vision processor Journey 1.0 and Sunrise 1.0 (Horizon Robotics)
- 16Mb asynchronous static random memory with error correction (ECC)/IS61/64WV102416EDBLL (ISSI)
Best MCU of the Year
- KungFu industrial-grade and automotive diversified market MCU KF8F31XX/41XX (ChipON)
- GD32F330/350 series (GigaDevice)
- STC High performance single Chip /STC8A8K64S4A12 (STC Micro)
Best Sensor/MEMS of the Year
- Fingerprint identification chip in display (GOODIX)
- Active noise Reduction microphone/MSM381A2718Z9A (MEMSensing)
- Mobile phone edge touch pressure sensor /PT048 (NDT)
Best Amplifier/Data Converter of the Year
- SlimPort® DP-MIPI Bridging chip/ANX7530 (Analogix)
- Intelligent Audio Amplifier Smart K/AW87339 (AWINIC)
- High performance voice pickup ADC/AC108 (X-Powers)
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