Energy Micro wins Elektra’s Start-up of the Year Award

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Energy Micro wins Elektra’s Start-up of the Year Award

Oslo, Norway, December 10th, 2010 – Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has been named Start-up of the Year at the annual Elektra Awards held at the Lancaster Hotel, London.

A highpoint of the electronics industry calendar, the Elektra Awards recognise best practice achievements of individuals and companies throughout Europe. Finalists in sixteen different award categories are selected by an independent panel of industry judges, with the winners being announced at the Awards Dinner.

Energy Micro President and CEO Geir Førre said: "To be recognised by the European electronics industry in this way is a real honour. Winning this award not much more than a year since we launched our very first product family is a tremendous achievement and is due to a lot of really hard work by the entire Energy Micro team."

The company launched its first ultra low power EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family in Q4 2009 and has since released details of its forthcoming entry-level Tiny Gecko microcontroller family. Based on the energy efficient 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 core, the Gecko microcontrollers are capable of consuming a quarter of the energy of other 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers.

Aiming to cut MCU development times by a half, Energy Micro is also to support its microcontrollers by a comprehensive development environment called the Simplicity Studio. It will comprise Energy Micro’s own energyAware software tools, code libraries and development kits and a broad range of third party IDE/complier, debug adapter, programmer and RTOS products.

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Energy Micro_s VP of Sales Europe, Ian Fletcher receives the 2010 Elektra Award for Start-up of the Year. The company was also nominated in the Digital Semiconductor Product of the Year category. Pictured left to right are: Master of Ceremony, comedian Hugh Dennis, Ian Fletcher, VP of Sales Europe, Energy Micro, Andrew Sawle, Executive Director of Advanced Package Development, International Rectifier, the award sponsor and Richard Wilson, Editor-in-Chief, of the awards organiser Electronics Weekly.

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About Energy Micro
Energy Micro develops, markets and sells the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers, based on the industry leading ARM® Cortex™-M3 32-bit architecture. The company was founded in 2007 by experienced semiconductor professionals with previous expertise from Chipcon, Texas Instruments, Atmel, and Nordic Semiconductor. Energy Micro is backed by leading Nordic investors Northzone Ventures and Investinor. More information on Energy Micro is available at www.energymicro.com


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Energy Micro_s VP of Sales Europe, Ian Fletcher receives the 2010 Elektra Award for Start-up of the Year. The company was also nominated in the Digital Semiconductor Product of the Year category. Pictured left to right are: Master of Ceremony, comedian Hugh Dennis, Ian Fletcher, VP of Sales Europe, Energy Micro, Andrew Sawle, Executive Director of Advanced Package Development, International Rectifier, the award sponsor and Richard Wilson, Editor-in-Chief, of the awards organiser Electronics Weekly.