EE Times to Honor Wilf Corrigan With Lifetime Achievement Award at 2006 ACE Awards Gala
2006年2月11日 - 3:28AM
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Industry Veteran and Pioneer of ASIC Sector Recognized for His
Innovation and Leadership SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CMP Media's EE Times today announced that
Wilfred J. Corrigan, founder and Chairman of the Board of LSI Logic
Corporation, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at
the second Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards, for his
contributions to the semiconductor industry for nearly five
decades. The award will be presented on April 4, at the ACE Awards
gala during the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley. "It is
an honor for us to be recognizing Wilf Corrigan, the senior
statesman of the semiconductor industry, with a Lifetime
Achievement award at this year's ACE Awards," said Brian Fuller,
publisher and editor-in-chief, EE Times. "He is a bold pioneer,
whose identification of ASICs as an emerging market led not only to
the founding of his successful company, but to the explosion of a
new type of silicon design." Since the 1960s, Wilf Corrigan has
been a recognized and celebrated innovator in the semiconductor
industry. As the principal founder, CEO (until May 2005) and
Chairman of LSI Logic since 1981, he not only pioneered the ASIC
(Application Specific Integrated Circuit) business as it is known
today, but also fostered the fabless model that is gaining great
traction in the aftermath of the record industry downturn of 2001.
Emigrating to the U.S. from the U.K. in 1960, after graduating from
the Imperial College of Science in London, Corrigan began his
career at Transitron Corporation. He moved into management
positions at Motorola Semiconductor, and in 1968, moved to
Fairchild Semiconductor with other Motorola executives, later to be
known as "Hogan's Heroes." Corrigan was named General Manager of
Fairchild's Semiconductor Division in 1970, and appointed to
President and CEO of Fairchild Camera and Instrument in 1974. The
title of Chairman was added in 1977. In 1981 he founded LSI Logic
with $6 million in venture capital. LSI Logic applied innovative
software and large computing power to automate the custom design
process. Throughout its history, LSI has introduced many
revolutionary technologies, including innovations surrounding
standard-cell ASICs, system-on-a-chip and platform ASICs. Today LSI
is recognized as a leader in providing silicon-to-systems products
for the Consumer and Storage markets. In addition to his
accomplishments in the industry, Corrigan is a recognized community
leader and industry statesman, being one of the founders of the
Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in 1977, with Intel's
Robert Noyce, AMD's Jerry Sanders and National Semiconductor's
Charlie Sporck. The SIA was formed to serve as a U.S. industry
advocate on a wide variety of issues including international trade,
taxation and technology development. In the 1980s, the SIA was at
the forefront of the industry-government effort to ensure the
survival of the U.S. industry in the face of widespread movement of
below-cost semiconductors onto global markets. "I am honored to be
recognized by the editors of EE Times with a Lifetime Achievement
Award," said Corrigan. "I am pleased to have had the opportunity to
not only work in the U.S. semiconductor industry, but also to have
participated in U.S. technology policy through my work with the
SIA, to help advance the industry." The EE Times ACE Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award candidates were selected by the editors
of EE Times based on their individual accomplishments over the
course of their careers. About EE Times ACE Awards and
Opportunities The EE Times ACE Awards were created to recognize the
people, companies and products that show leadership in the
electronics industry and will honor those who are leading the way
and making positive contributions -- the real innovators of
technology. Awards will be presented at a second annual awards gala
held on April 4, 2006 at The Fairmont San Jose during CMP Media's
Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley. To purchase tickets and
find out more about the event, visit http://www.eetimes.com/ace A
limited number of sponsorship opportunities are available on a
first-come, first-served basis for companies interested in
associating their brands with this major industry event. Please
visit http://www.eetimes.com/ace for more details. EE Times has
announced that Avnet, Cadence and Wind River have signed on to be
gold sponsors of the event. The association media sponsor is IEEE
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