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Sidense a Finalist in Red Herring Canada Top 50
Selection Places Sidense Among Top Innovators, Decision-Makers, and Key Players From Technology Companies Across Canada
| Source: Sidense
OTTAWA--(Marketwire - August 27, 2008) - Sidense, a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile
Memory (LNVM) IP cores, today announced that it has been selected by global
media company, Red Herring, as a finalist in the organization's Canada Top
50 list, part of the Red Herring Canada 2008 event, celebrating Canadian
Technology and Innovation. Canada 2008 will be held September 15-17 in
Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada.
Xerxes Wania, Sidense President and CEO, said, "We are honored to be among
the finalists for this prestigious award, which recognizes some of the top
Canadian technology companies. We look forward to the announcement of the
winners next month in Mont-Tremblant and wish to thank Red Herring for
their consideration of us."
Companies considered for the Red Herring Canada 2008 Top 50 Awards must be
privately owned, have their headquarters in Canada and have a technology,
cleantech (knowledge-based products or services that improve operational
performance, productivity, or efficiency while reducing costs, inputs,
energy consumption, waste, or pollution) or life sciences focus. In
addition, a qualifying company must possess a disruptive technology or
process with significant market potential.
About Sidense
Sidense, listed on EE Times 60 Emerging Startups list for 2008, provides
secure, dense and reliable non-volatile, one-time programmable (OTP) memory
IP for use in standard-logic CMOS processes, with no additional masks or
process steps required. Sidense's patented one-transistor 1T-Fuse™
architecture (U.S. Patent #7402855 and others) provides the industry's
smallest footprint and lowest power Logic Non-Volatile Memory (NVM)
solution.
Sidense OTP memory is available at 180nm, 130nm, 90nm and 65nm and scalable
to 45nm and below. The IP is available at UMC, TSMC, SMIC, Tower and
Chartered. Customers are using Sidense OTP for analog trimming, code
storage, encryption keys such as HDCP, RFID and Chip ID, medical,
automotive, and configurable processors and logic. For more information,
visit www.sidense.com
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high
technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a
variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily
technology news service; technology newsletters, and major events for
technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's
access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on
the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information on
Canada 2008, visit http://www.herringevents.com/canada08/index.html