DCD among National Finalists for European Business Award and DQ80251 for the UKTI Award of Innovation

Bytom, May the 30th, 2012 -- Digital Core Design, a leading IP Core provider from Poland, has been nominated as a National Finalist for the 2012/2013 European Business Awards. Europe’s most recognized business competition has appreciated DCD’s world’s fastest 8051 processor - the DQ80251 - for the UKTI  Award of Innovation. UK Government department for Trade & Investment and European Business Award committee, engaged with thousands of businesses across Europe to select the DQ80251 as a reflection of DCD’s success.

Just to emphasize, Digital Core Design has been selected from several thousand companies across Europe for the UKTI Award for Innovation. Moreover DCD’s the only IP Core provider and design house qualified as a National Finalist. - We are absolutely overjoyed and proud to represent not only Poland, but also EDA/IP/SoC field  in the 2012/13 European Business Awards – says Jacek Hanke, CEO of Digital Core Design.

The EBA judging panel nominated the DCD’s DQ80251 for the UKTI Award of Innovation. One of the most advanced 8051 CPU presented in the beginning of 2012, is even 56 times faster than the standard invented by Intel company and more than 70% more efficient, than the nearest solution. What does it mean for the end-user? That it can perform more operations in shorter time and with less power consumption. Needless to say, the DQ80251 is the only virtual electronic component  nominee for the Innovation Award.

The European Business Awards, sponsored by RSM International, Infosys, Millicom International Cellular and supported by UKTI (UK Trade & Investment ), is an independent Awards programme, designed to recognize and promote excellence, best practice and innovation in the European business community, in line with broad aims of the European Union and business representative groups, across all European nations. José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain, “I have the highest opinion of the European Business Awards. It is a great initiative to promote the values and principles we believe in: liberty, democracy, freedom of speech, open markets and open societies.”

The 2011 European Business Awards showcased organizations with a combined turnover of €1 trillion Euros (8.23% of EU GDP). These businesses employ over 2.7 million people across the continent.

More information about DCD and European Business Award:

http://www.dcd.pl

http://www.businessawardseurope.com

Information about Digital Core Design:

Digital Core Design is a leading Intellectual Property (IP) Core provider and System-on-Chip (SoC) design house. The company was founded in 1999 and since the early beginning is considered as an expert in IP Core architecture improvements. Thousands of customers became convinced by our unique solutions and billions of people worldwide use our technology in USB, MP3 players, mobile phones and many others.

The innovativeness of DCD's IP solutions has been confirmed by over 500 licenses sold to over 300 customers worldwide, such as: INTEL, SIEMENS, PHILIPS, TOYOTA, OSRAM, GENERAL ELECTRIC, SILICON GRAPHICS, RAFAEL, SAGEM or GOODRICH.

More information: http://www.dcd.pl/page/147/about/

Information about the European Business Awards 2012/13:

The European Business Awards recognizes and rewards excellence, best practice and innovation in companies across the European Union. The competition is free to enter and open to organizations of all sizes and from any industry sector. The European Business Awards programme serves three purposes for the European business community:

• It provides examples for the business community to aspire to
• It celebrates and endorses individual’s and organisation’s success
• It provides case studies and content for learning from these exceptional organizations.

An innovative, strong and thriving business community makes a successful and prosperous Europe.

The European Business Awards categories are:

• The Chairman’s Selection
• The UKTI Award for Innovation
• The International Growth Strategy of the Year Award
• The Millicom Award for Environmental and Corporate Sustainability
• The Award for Customer Focus
• The Employer of the Year Award
• The RSM International Entrepreneur of the Year Award
• The Import/Export Award
• The Infosys Business of the Year Award (T/O €0-25m)
• The Infosys Business of the Year Award (T/O €26-150m)
• The Infosys Business of the Year Award (T/O €150m +)