Electronic Component News (ECN) announced the rankings of winners in nearly 14 categories at this year’s Impact Awards dinner and awards program, held Sunday, October 22, 2017, at the Loew’s Chicago O’Hare Hotel, coinciding with the ECIA Executive Conference. Winners did not know where they placed in their respective categories until the live event. Two companies also were recognized for Special Recognition categories.
“It was a delightful, intimate event,” said Joyceann Garippa, editorial director of Advantage Business Media’s Design Engineering Group, which includes ECN. “Winners were surprised and thrilled to be called to the stage to collect their trophies. The element of surprise really resonated with this year’s winners.”
Here are the rankings of winning companies by category:
Analog & Mixed Signal ICs
No. 1 Texas Instruments
No. 2 SiTime Corporation
No. 3 Inphi Corporation
Boards, Modules & Embedded Systems
No. 1 Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory
No. 2 Maxim Integrated
No. 3 Microchip Technology Inc.
No. 3 NXP Semiconductors
Cooling & Thermal Management
Jaro Thermal, Inc.
Electromechanical/Mechanical Devices
No. 1 Micronor Inc.
No. 2 EAO Corporation
Medical Device Design
No. 1 SPEAK MODalities, LLC
No. 2 New Scale Technologies
No. 3 Renesas Electronics America Inc.
Microwave & RF
No. 1 Maxim Integrated
No. 2 Texas Instruments
No. 3 Murata
Optoelectronics
No. 1 Orbotech Ltd.
No 2. Luxtera
No 3. Pervasive Displays
Packaging, Interconnects & Enclosures
No. 1 Memory Protection Devices, Inc.
No. 2 Harwin
No. 3 TE Connectivity
No. 3 OKW ENCLOSURES, INC.
Passive Components & Discrete Semiconductors
No. 1 Efficient Power Conversion
No. 2 GaN Systems Inc.
No. 3 Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
Power Sources & Conditioning Devices
No. 1 Inventus Power
No. 2 XP Power
No. 3 Intersil Corporation
Rapid Prototyping
No. 1 ON Semiconductor
No. 2 Orbotech Ltd.
Sensors
No. 1 Excelitas Technologies
No. 2 ams Sensors Germany GmbH
No. 3 Peratech
Software Design
Microchip Technology Inc.
Test & Measurement
No. 1 Anritsu Company
No. 2 Keysight Technologies, Inc.
No. 3 Total Phase
Special Recognition: Contract Manufacturer Innovation
NEO Tech
Special Recognition: Market Disruptor
Orbotech Ltd.