The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced its 2022 award nominees. The prestigious awards will be presented at GSA’s Awards Celebration on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. This year’s program will celebrate the achievements of the semiconductor industry and the excitement of being back together in person.
The Awards Celebration recognizes individuals and companies that have demonstrated excellence through their vision, innovation, execution, and future opportunity. The nominees are honored for their achievements in several categories ranging from outstanding leadership to financial accomplishments, as well as overall respect within the industry.
The 2022 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award recipient is Steve Sanghi, Executive Chair of Microchip Technology.
The award categories and nominees (appearing in alphabetical order) are as follows:
Rising Women of Influence Award
- Isabelle Ferain, Senior Director Technology Development, GlobalFoundries
- Lalitha Immaneni, Vice President, Technology Development & Senior Director, Advanced Design & Technology Solutions, Intel Corporation
- Caixia Jiang, Corporate Vice President, Software Development, AMD
- Dr. Yan Li, Vice President, Engineering, Memory Technology, Western Digital
Start-Up to Watch Award
- Ayar Labs
- Rivos Inc.
- Syntiant Corp.
Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company Award
- Astera Labs
- SambaNova Systems
- SiFive
Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving $100 to $500 Million in Annual Sales)
- Ambarella
- MagnaChip Semiconductor
- SiTime Corporation
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving $500 Million to $1 Billion in Annual Sales)
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Nordic Semiconductor
- Silicon Labs
Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving $1 Billion to $5 Billion in Annual Sales)
- MaxLinear
- Qorvo
- Synaptics
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)
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Power Integrations
- SiTime Corporation
Best Financially Managed Semiconductor Company Award
(Achieving Greater than $1 Billion in Annual Sales)
- Broadcom
- Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- MaxLinear
Analyst Favorite Semiconductor Company Award
(Chosen by managing director Quinn Bolton of Needham & Company, LLC)
- Credo Technology Group
- MaxLinear
- Monolithic Power Systems
Analyst Favorite Semiconductor Company Award
(Chosen by managing director Mark Lipacis of Jefferies, LLC)
- Analog Devices
- Marvell
- NVIDIA
Outstanding Asia Pacific Semiconductor Company Award
- Montage Technology
- Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Winbond Electronics Corporation
Outstanding EMEA Semiconductor Company Award
- Kandou
- Nordic Semiconductor
- NXP Semiconductors
- STMicroelectronics
About the GSA Awards Celebration:
The GSA Awards Celebration is the industry’s premier annual event attracting more than 1500 leaders to celebrate the accomplishments of this industry and honor the best performing companies and top leaders. Each year the GSA recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence through their vision, strategy, execution and future opportunity. The celebration honors the achievements of semiconductor companies in several categories ranging from outstanding leadership to financial accomplishments, as well as overall respect within the industry. To register for this year’s celebration, please visit the Awards registration page.