AgigA Tech Wins Gold at 2013 Edison Awards Gala
AgigA Tech Wins Gold at 2013 Edison Awards Gala
AGIGARAM®Non-Volatile Memory Recognized In Electronics & Computers Category
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AgigA Tech Inc., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NAS: CY) and a leading provider of high-speed, high-density, battery-free non-volatile memory solutions, announced that its flagship product AGIGARAM® non-volatile memory, was named the 2013 Gold Medal winner for innovation in the Electronics & Computers category.
The Edison Awards, celebrating 26 years of honoring the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services, announced the winners at an awards gala on April 25th at the Navy Pier in Chicago. Being recognized with an Edison Award has become one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business. The awards are named after Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) whose inventions, new product development methods and innovative achievements literally changed the world, garnered him 1,093 U.S. patents, and made him a household name around the world.
"Our judges recognized AgigA Tech as a true innovator out of the many products in its category," said Frank Bonafilia, executive director of the Edison Awards. The ballot of nominees for the Edison Awards™ was judged by a panel of more than 3,000 leading business executives including past award winners, academics and leaders in the fields of product development, design, engineering, science and medical.
"To be named the Gold Medal winner in a category with two other technology stalwarts is truly an honor," said Ron Sartore, CEO of AgigA Tech. "We are proud that AGIGARAM's breakthrough performance improvements for enterprise computing systems has been recognized with this award."
About AGIGARAM®
AGIGARAM is a new class of non-volatile memory developed to meet the need for higher-density, higher-performance memory for enterprise-class storage and server applications. By combining industry-standard DRAM and NAND Flash technology, AGIGARAM provides the low latency and nearly infinite endurance of DRAM, along with the non-volatility of Flash. During normal operation, AGIGARAM appears to the host system as a standard JEDEC DRAM memory module. In the event of an unexpected power loss, the critical data residing in the DRAM is saved to onboard NAND Flash using a battery-free power source based on ultracapacitors. When power is returned, the in-memory state of the DRAM at the time power was lost is restored from the Flash. The recovery time from a catastrophic power-loss event is almost immediate since the restore operation takes a matter of seconds and recharging the ultracapacitors takes only minutes. AGIGARAM is designed to integrate easily into the DIMM slots of industry-standard server and storage platforms, providing fast persistent memory for use cases such as write caching, metadata storage and other in-memory computing applications.
About AgigA Tech, Inc.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, AgigA Tech is a leading developer of high-speed, high-density, battery-free non-volatile memory solutions. The company's flagship AGIGARAM® product family represents a new class of non-volatile memory created to address the fundamental need for higher-density, higher-performance memory in enterprise-class applications. AGIGARAM integrates NAND Flash, DRAM and an ultracapacitor power source into an innovative, highly-reliable non-volatile memory subsystem that can deliver unlimited read/write performance at the fastest DRAM speeds, while also safely backing up all data when power is interrupted. AgigA Tech is a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. The company's products are available worldwide through the Cypress sales force and its distributor partners. More information on the company is available at www.agigatech.com.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, PSoC 4, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is the world leader in capacitive user interface solutions including CapSense® touch sensing, TrueTouch® touchscreens, and trackpad solutions for notebook PCs and peripherals. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, which enhance connectivity and performance in a wide range of consumer and industrial products. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM and nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous major markets, including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
AGIGA, AGIGARAM, AGIGACAP and PowerGEM are registered trademarks of AgigA Tech, Inc. Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, TrueTouch and CapSense are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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