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BOSTON, MA, FEBRUARY 2, 2006 - Tyco Electronics MagRJ45 Power-Over-Ethernet Connector has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist for this year's EDN Innovator/Innovation Awards. Instituted in 1990, the Innovation Awards honor the people, products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the past year. The EDN Innovation Awards carry special meaning because the winners are chosen by a jury of their peers.
Tyco Electronics had its connector selected in the Sensors and Components category based on the following criteria. The product must have demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology and/or product development during the past 12 months. Nominees must also have shipped in volume in the 2005 calendar year.
The advancements that distinguish the finalists in the annual EDN Innovation program may seem subtleminimally lower power, a slight reduction in cost, the ability to discern a faster signal, or the gateway to new semiconductor processes, states EDN Editor-In-Chief Maury Wright. Yet those subtleties represent hard-won engineering victories that make all the difference in the latest compelling consumer products, computers, and communication systems. I congratulate all of this year''''s finalists for advancing the state-of-the-art in everything from discrete components to processors to chip-design tools.
After an open nomination period, a panel of EDN editors selects finalists in each category. Then EDN's audience of engineers and engineering managers will use an online ballot to select the ultimate winners from among these finalists. We encourage you to check out our product summary and vote for us at
http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=InnovationAwards&year=2005
Winners will be announced at a ceremony on April 3, 2006 in San Jose.
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