EnSilica  named company of the year at 2018 annual TechWorks Awards in London.

The company, founded in 2001, is listed 5th in The Sunday Times top 100 SME exporters. Since its inception it has emerged as a world-leading IC design house with a consistent track record for technical excellence in digital, RF and mixed-signal design; and industry testimonials including: Alcatel-Lucent, Dialog Semiconductor, Imagination Technologies, Motorola and NXP.

The night also saw FlexEnable take the Disruptive Innovation of the Year award for its work in industrialising plastic electronics for flexible displays and sensors. And Peter Davies of Thales e-Security received the Contribution to Industry honour for his work to advance cyber security and position the UK as a leader in this sector.

Davies is a world-leading expert on cryptography, developing and certifying flexible, interoperable security solutions for businesses and governments. His work on technologies such as digital DNA is at the core of cyber defence and forensics activities to combat existential threats against businesses and has worked with the EU and the Prime Minister, as well as countless boards, agencies, certification labs and partners.

The awards celebrate the year’s key electronics innovations, people and companies from across the UK and Ireland. The TechWorks Awards have run annually since 2001 – originally branded as the NMI Awards.

Speaking at the event, the awards’ compère, John Sergeant said of EnSilica: “It has been a transformational year for EnSilica moving from pure design services to a fabless ASIC company.

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