FSA, 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 Award winners by
identifying the companies they most respect in terms of product,
vision and future opportunity. This year's 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 year's 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, Vimicro International Corporation and Wolfson
Microelectronics. Private company winners are Apexone
Microelectronics, Inphi Corporation, Impinj and Wintegra.
FSA's 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 year's title sponsor, UMC, and sponsors including
Accenture, AMD, AMI Semiconductor, ARM, Broadcom, Cadence, Chartered
Semiconductor Manufacturing, Cirrus Logic, Conexant, Denali, Ernst &
Young, IBM, Invest Northern Ireland, Jazz Semiconductor, MagnaChip,
Marvell, Morgan Stanley, NVIDIA, Oracle, QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies,
Samsung, SAP, STATS ChipPAC, Synopsys, Teradyne, TSMC, 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.
