2024 Edge Award Winners
The votes are in! The winners and honorees of the 2024 Edge Awards (formerly the IDEA Awards) have been chosen for each of the eight categories by hundreds of engineers and industry representatives from around the world.
“Every year, we use our awards program to highlight the latest in innovation across the engineering landscape,” says Michelle Kopier, Content Director over the Design & Engineering Group at Endeavor Business Media. “This year’s winners, as chosen by our engineering audience, demonstrate technological progress and solution development that will continue to propel industry forward.”
A special congratulations to the Leading Edge Award Winner, Green Cubes Technology, for its 48V Industrial Swappable Battery (1000) that received the highest number of votes across all categories.
The Edge Awards are presented by a wide collection of engineering brands across many disciplines, and include Electronic Design, Machine Design, Microwaves & RF, Power & Motion, Laser Focus World, Vision Systems Design, and Military + Aerospace Electronics.
The 2024 Edge Award Winners and Honorees are below.
Leading Edge Winner
Green Cubes Technology – 48V Industrial Swappable Battery (1000)
Automation & Controls
Winner:
- Nordson EFD – PICO Nexus Jetting System
Honorees:
- Regal Rexnord – ModSort Large Format System
- Rockwell Automation – Stratix 5200 fully managed Ethernet switches
Communication
Winner:
- Morse Micro – Wi-Fi HaLow Portfolio
Honorees:
- MediaTek – Filogic 860 and Filogic 360
- SynaXG – AI+5G O-RAN Solution
Computing Hardware, Software & Systems
Winner:
- Ambarella – N1 SoC Series for Edge Generative AI
Honorees:
- Cincoze Co., Ltd. – DA-1200, a Rugged & Cost-effective Intel Alder Lake-N Computer
- SiFive – SiFive Performance P870 and Intelligence X390
Electronic Components & Enclosures
Editor’s Note: Leading Edge Winner Green Cubes Technology submitted under this category. See Leading Edge section above for more details.
Winner:
- Molex – 224G Product Portfolio
Honorees:
- Empower Semiconductor – EC1005P
- Phoenix Contact – TRIO POWER Third Generation
- Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. - IHPT Series Haptic Feedback Actuators with Immersion Licenses
Machine Learning/Deep Learning
Winner:
- Synaptics – Astra AI-Native Edge IoT Platform
Honorees:
- Intel – Intel SceneScape
- Galorath Incorporated - SEERai
Machine Vision & Inspection
Winner:
- Cognex - In-Sight L38
Honorees:
- Theia Technologies - Theia IQ Lens System
- Lattice Semiconductor - Lattice sensAI solution stack
Optical & Photonics
Winner:
- SPECTROLIGHT, INC. – Tunable Laser System
Honorees:
- Photonics Industries International, Inc. - DP50 High Pulse Energy DPSS Nanosecond Lasers
- TeraSignal - TS8401/02 intelligent 400G (4x100G) PAM4 modulator driver
Robotics & Motion Control
Winner:
- Bota Systems - PixONE
Honorees:
- Rockwell Automation – ArmorKinetix Distributed Servo Drives
- Inventive Resources, Inc. – OilN2