From 2004, every season in EETimes “ULTIMATE PROPRUCTS” co-decided 7 kinds of different products by senior editors and readers during this season. Those 7 kinds of products cover: Analog ICs,Processors & Memory,,IP & E, Logic & Programmable Logic, Power, RF & Microwave and Test & Measurement. Editors choose the worthy 10 products and devices from above 7 categories and send those production message to about 1000 EETimes and eeProductCenter readers ( engineers ). They will judge from those products base on technical significance and likelihood of use. 

UBEC from establishing to now around two years-, and it develops production UW2451 the point of an awl sticking out through a bag from amount of RF productions and elected by EETimes in 2004, Q3"ULTIMATE PRODUCTS" of "RF&Microwave" and finally are awarded the top 3 honor which even overcomes the productions provided by Maxim, Philips Semiconductor, SIGE so on during this season. Data revealing that commented by "Ultimate Product" are valuable to those readers of EETimes and eeProductCenter.

 

Following are companies which awarded by ULTIMATE PRODUCT 1.3 "Catch The Wave" in the field of "RF & Microwave" in Q3, 2004:

(1) FAIRCHILD SEMI (2) CONEXANT SYSTEMS (3) UNIBAND ELECTRONIC CORP (UBEC) (4)RFDOMUS (5)MAXIM (6)PHILIPS SEMICONDUCTOR (7)LTC (8) ANADIGICS (9)SIGE SEMI (10)HITTITE MICROWAVE CORP.