WHAT ARE THE INSIGHT AWARDS?
The Insight Awards recognize achievements and innovation within the semiconductor and electronics industry. Emerging as one of the most recognized awards for technical innovation, the scope of the Insight Awards has evolved with the semiconductor landscape. This year, the 10th Annual Insights Awards will feature a mix of returning and new categories that will be announced throughout the year.
WHY PARTICIPATE IN THE INSIGHT AWARDS?
The Insight Awards are generally acknowledged as ‘the’ top prize within the semiconductor industry. The benefits of participating are numerous and include:
- Valuable third party validation of your technical claims
- Editorial coverage (UBM TechInsights will author at least one article on each winning device)
- Press release issued for each category winner
- Awards ceremony
- Recognition for your engineering and design teams
- A complimentary ‘IC Review’ report for your submission
- Other co-marketing opportunities
HOW DO I NOMINATE MY PRODUCT FOR THE INSIGHT AWARDS?
To nominate your device or component for evaluation in the Insight Awards program, begin with our nomination form. Should you have questions about the nomination form, please contact the Insights Awards committee at insightawards@ubmtechinsights.com. All submissions require 5-10 components or 1-2 downstream products (i.e. finished devices) for evaluation and should be shipped to:
UBM TechInsights
3000 Solandt Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada
K2K 2X2
Attention: Insight Awards
Tel: +1 613 599-6500
WHAT MAJOR PUBLICATIONS WILL NOMINEES BE FEATURED IN?
A majority of the nominees will be showcased in primarily in electronic publications such as EE Times and EDN. For over thirty years, EE Times and EDN have been covering the movement of the electronics industry. They break the stories that shape your business, describing the technical implications and trade-offs with thoughtful analysis and compelling opinion. For more than 150,000 design and development engineers and technical managers, EE Times and EDN are a "must read" for the electronics and semiconductor industry. Other publications that have worked to help us promote the winners of the Insight Awards include:
- World IP Review
- TechWeb
- Information Week
- Wall Street Journal
HOW ELSE DOES TECHINSIGHTS PROMOTE THE INSIGHT AWARDS?
UBM TechInsights also promotes the Insight Award winners and nominees through press releases sent from PR Newswire. PR Newswire is the global leader in news and information distribution services for professional communicators. http://www.prnewswire.com/. There are also opportunities to co-release with the winners for customized regions, based on winner’s preferences. Opportunities are also available for customized regional press releases for the winning participants.
UBM TechInsights can help assist, if permissible, with your company’s marketing efforts for your submitted product. In the past, this has included accessibility to our analysts for product quotes, guest blogging, access to high resolution images and more.
WHICH COMPANIES HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE INSIGHT AWARDS?
UBM TechInsights has received submissions from, and awarded awards to, numerous high-profile semiconductor companies including: Samsung, Toshiba, Qualcomm, Marvell, Texas Instruments, AMD, Cypress, IBM, Cannon, Motorola, Micron and Intel.
DISCLAIMER
Participation in the Insight Awards involves the exchange of technical and business information relating to your nominated device. Information obtained by UBM TechInsights from participating companies will be used for the purpose of validating technical claims of your nominated product.
UBM TechInsights may decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, and/or analyze the devices provided by the Participant in the generation of analysis reports. UBM TechInsights will not perform analysis in the investigation of third party patent claims on devices supplied by the participant. UBM TechInsights reserves the right to lift such restrictions on any analysis performed once the devices become commercially available. We reserve the right to promote and market all nominated and winning devices with respect to their involvement with the Insight Awards.