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2006 Winners

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2006 Insight Awards Winners

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  Most Innovative RF IC
Texas Instrument Winner Announced!

TI BRF6300 Bluetooth v2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate Single Chip Solution

Other nominees

Bluetooth Stream
  • Broadcom BCM2045
  • Cambridge Silicon Radio BlueCore05
  • RF Micro Devices SiW4000
Cellular RF
  • Analog Devices Othello-G Radio for GSM/GPRS
  • Silicon Labs Si4300
  • STMicroelectronics STLC2411
  • STMicroelectronics STM2500
  • Texas Instruments Single Chip GSM Phones
DBVH
  • Texas Instruments DTV 1000/1 "Hollywood"
WLAN Stream
  • Airgo 802.11n AGN100RF & AGN100BBP/MAC
  • Atheros 802.11a/b/g AR5006X
  • Marvell AT8W Series
ZigBee Stream
  • Chipcon (Texas Instruments) CC2430
  • Chipcon (Texas Instruments) CC2500
  • Ember EM250
  • Freescale MC13192
  Most Innovative Non-Volatile Memory
Toshiba Winner Announced!

Toshiba 70nm 8Gb MLC NAND Flash
Press Release

Other nominees

  • Hynix 70nm NAND Flash
  • Infineon 90nm NAND Flash
  • Intel 90nm 512Mb StrataFlash
  • Samsung 65nm 4Gb NAND Flash
  • Samsung 4Gbit MLC NAND Flash
  • Spansion 90nm 1Gb ORNAND
  • Spansion 90nm 512Mb MirrorBit NOR Flash
  • Toshiba 70nm 4Gb MLC NAND Flash
  Most Innovative DRAM Memory
Micron Winner Announced!

Micron 95nm 6F² Mobile SDRAM
Press Release

Other nominees

  • Embedded Memory in XBox 360
  • Infineon 90nm DRAM
  • Samsung 110nm 6F² SDRAM
  • Samsung 70nm 512Mbit DDR2 SDRAM
  Most Innovative Image Sensor
Cypress Winner Announced!

Cypress IM103 1/3" VGA-Format CMOS Image Sensor
Press Release

Other nominees

  • Kodak 3 Megapixel
  • Micron 2 Megapixel
  • OmniVision 5.18 Megapixel
  • Samsung 2 Megapixel
  Most Innovative Baseband and/or Applications Processor
Texas Instruments Winner Announced!

Texas Instruments "LoCosto" RF and Baseband Single Chip Solution
Press Release

Other nominees

  • Infineon PMB7870
  • Intel "Hermon"
  • Qualcomm MSM6250a
  • Qualcomm MSM6275
  • Qualcomm MSM6800
  • Qualcomm 7200/7500/7600
  • Texas Instruments OMAP V1030
  • Texas Instruments OMAP V2230
  • Texas Instruments OMAP VOX
  Most Innovative Process Technology
AMD Winner Announced!

AMD 65nm SOI Athlon 64 X2 Processor
Press Release

Other nominees

  • AMD 65nm High Power SOI
  • IBM 65nm High Power
  • Intel 65nm High Power
  • Intel 65nm Low Power
  • MEI 65nm High Power
  • NEC 90nm e-DRAM
  • Philips 90nm RFCMOS
  • Sony/Toshiba/IBM Cell Processor
  • Texas Instruments 65nm High Power
  • Texas Instruments 90nm RFCMOS
  • TSMC 65nm High Power