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Newsletter December 2007 |
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Paul Double (left) of EDA Solutions is the worthy winner of the Services to Training and Education Award presented here by iSLI’s Tony Harker. |
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The 2007 Manufacturing Site of the Year Award was won by Zetex. Pictured above is Gerrie Pimm (left) of award sponsor Sematek together with Mick Conlon, Rob Davies and Ian Scott of Zetex. |
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And finally, from all of us here at NMI, we look forward to working with you in the New Year and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very successful 2008. |
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Well wishes for 2008 |
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Building the Community & Uniting Our Industry |
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NMI is now at the end of its 11th year and we’re pleased to announce that we have significantly increased our activities and membership: At the end of 2007 we have over 130 members - up over 30% from the previous year. This is great news for the industry as it means our collective voice is stronger and louder than ever. The innovation eco-system is key and NMI lubricates the processes that drive innovation and technological development through our unique blend of activities such as technical networking, business benchmarking, international marketing, training, education and lobbying activities. In this newsletter we’d like to tell you in brief what’s coming in 2008 and recognise the actions of companies that help to sustain a healthy industry.
We are especially grateful to all the support from members, partners and sponsors that have enabled us to deliver more products and services again this year - we are grateful to all of you.
*** A BIG THANK YOU ***
We would also like to encourage more to participate in NMI activities and provide us with feedback so we can continue to raise the bar in 2008. |
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Innovation Awards 2007 And the winners are... |
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Brian Williams (left) from Nanotech Semiconductor Ltd. accepts the Start Up of the Year Award from Rob Galuszka of Cadence Design Systems. |
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Gary Munro of NXP Semiconductors presents the Innovation Award to Ollie Althorpe (right) representing ST Microelectronics Imaging Division |
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DisplayLink staff Philip Faulkner and Wez Davey accept the Emerging Technology Company Award from Baz Matvichuk (right) of Unisem |
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Ian Phillips of Arm Ltd. presents Ian Burnett (centre) with the Contribution to Industry Award 2007 in the presence of Derek Boyd, CEO of NMI. |
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Brendan Seagrave of Freescale Semiconductor receives the Energy Efficiency Award from John Winters of British Energy . |
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We constantly review the opportunity to promote the industry and our members around the world. In November this year NMI took a promotional message to Japan and explained how our members are leading Europe in design and innovation. Further activities are currently underway to promote member companies to technology buyers and decision makers in Japan’s globally recognised brands.
We are also in the planning stages for a similar mission to USA in Q1 2008. There is further potential for greater promotional activities in the future however this is dependent on the appetite of our members and welcome support of UK Trade and Investment. If Japan, USA or China are in your strategy, please contact us so that we can include you in our plans and channel opportunities your way. |
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NMI Outreach Programme |
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2008 On-the-Radar: Technical Networks Schedule |
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Building on our regular communities we are pleased to announce our 2008 calendar. This year we are developing these technical communities by introducing themes such as automotive, consumer and medical applications - details will follow nearer the time. We are always on the look-out for speakers and sponsors so if you’re interested to participate or raise the profile of your company please contact Robin Kennedy.
Feb * Design Verification * Transistors on Plastic (partnered) Mar * Failure Analysis, Characterisation and Reliability April * Analogue, Mixed Signal and RF Design May * Field Programmable Technology * IC Packaging (partnered) June * Embedded Systems / Software July * Power Electronics Sept * System Level Design * Analogue, Mixed Signal and RF Design Oct * Design for Manufacture |
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Knowledge Networking At the heart of NMI work is Knowledge Networking. During 2007 NMI ran and partnered over 20 industry events that attracted well over 1000 attendees spanning business, design, product introduction and manufacturing themes. We were very pleased to work with the University of Glasgow to run our first international conference on the subject of CMOS variability—a subject that we expect to hear a great deal more about over the coming years. In addition to this we established the Fabless Operations Forum to improve the competiveness of the growing fabless community of companies here.
Manufacturing Update Although conditions remain challenging our members are exploring many exciting opportunities such new product development, efficiency improvement and cost reduction. Energy and Utilities efficiency are regular focus areas for us and we aim to coordinate further cost saving initiatives in 2008. The latest fab benchmarking project is well underway and 12 sites have participated to date - a report will follow early in the New Year. We have also helped many sites with skills development this year and we fully plan to extend these activities—for example we are able to reduce training costs by pooling requirements across sites. We work with known service providers so if you are interested in reducing your training costs without compromising on quality then contact us with your areas of interest.
New Services and Membership Category We are also rolling out a new legal assistance service and have further created a business associate membership for organisations that have a stakeholder interest in supporting a vibrant and prosperous microelectronics industry in UK and Ireland.
The 2007 Annual Review is now available and you can request a copy by calling our head office on 01506 401210 or by downloading an electronic copy from the NMI website.
Coming Soon… Look out for our latest reports: Partnering the Future: Business Innovation in UK Microelectronics - this research paper provides valuable insights into how leading companies are complementing their technological prowess with business innovation and will be available to NMI members from January 2008. The 2007 Big Manufacturing Report collating our numerous activities and achievements in a single volume will also be available in January. |
