The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced its 2021 award nominees. The prestigious awards will be presented at GSA’s Virtual Awards Celebration on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. This year’s program will focus on the resiliency and achievements of the semiconductor industry and its ability to connect us all.
The Awards Celebration will recognize individuals and companies that have demonstrated excellence through their vision, innovation, execution, and future opportunity. The nominees will be honored for their achievements in several categories ranging from outstanding leadership to financial accomplishments, as well as overall respect within the industry.
The 2021 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award recipient is Dr. Walden “Wally” C. Rhines, President & CEO of Cornami, Inc.
The award categories and nominees (in alphabetical order) are as follows:
Rising Women of Influence Award
- Rashmi Char, VP, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
- Dina McKinney, Sr. VP, Hardware Processors Business Unit, Marvell
- Teresa McLaurin, Fellow & Sr. Director of DFT (Design for Test) Architecture, ARM
- Mydung Pham, Corporate VP, Silicon Design Engineering, AMD
Start-Up to Watch Award
- Astera Labs
- Ayar Labs
- Menlo Micro
Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company Award
- Ampere Computing
- SambaNova Systems
- SiFive
Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving $100 to $500 Million in Annual Sales)
- Ambarella
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Vicor
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving $500 Million to $1 Billion in Annual Sales)
- Nordic Semiconductor
- Silicon Labs
- Wolfspeed, Inc.
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving $1 Billion to $5 Billion in Annual Sales)
- Marvell
- Qorvo
- Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Xilinx, Inc.
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving Greater than $5 Billion in Annual Sales)
- AMD
- Analog Devices
- NVIDIA
Best Financially Managed Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving Up to $1 Billion in Annual Sales)
- ELAN Microelectronics Corp.
- FocalTech Systems Co., Ltd.
- Holtek Semiconductor Inc.
Best Financially Managed Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving Greater than $1 Billion in Annual Sales)
- AMD
- Broadcom Inc.
- Qualcomm Inc.
Analyst Favorite Semiconductor Company Award
(Chosen by managing director Rajvindra Gill of Needham & Company, LLC)
- NVIDIA
- NXP Semiconductors
- Synaptics
Analyst Favorite Semiconductor Company Award
(Chosen by managing director Mark Lipacis of Jefferies, LLC)
- Allegro MicroSystems
- Marvell
- onsemi
Outstanding Asia Pacific Semiconductor Company Award
- MediaTek Inc.
- Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
- SK hynix Inc.
- UNISOC Technologies Co., Ltd.
Outstanding EMEA Semiconductor Company Award
- Graphcore
- Nordic Semiconductor
- NXP Semiconductors
- Xsight Labs
