“The innovative spirit within the embedded community remains impressive in 2026,” said Professor Dr.-Ing. Axel Sikora, Chairman of the embedded world Conference and member of the embedded award jury. “We are witnessing a continuous convergence of technologies: AI capabilities are increasingly moving to the edge, vision systems are becoming more intelligent, and highly sophisticated hardware is achieving new levels of efficiency and scalability.”
“This interplay of developments makes the current momentum particularly fascinating. What also stands out is how companies tackle similar technical challenges from entirely different angles – often with clever and highly distinctive approaches.”
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There were 110 submissions put before the seven-member jury. Note that the evaluation process began in mid January.
Embedded award winners
The full list of embedded award winners is below.
Artificial Intelligence
Ceva-NeuPro-Nano
Exhibitor: Ceva
Hall/Booth: 4-462
Electronic Displays
Adaptive E-Paper Driving
Exhibitor: LCD Mikroelektronik GmbH
Hall/Booth: 1-351
Embedded Vision
Memorence Operagents
Exhibitor: Memorence AI
Hall/Booth: 3-439
Hardware
eiscube & ioneis cloud
Exhibitor: ioncentric
Hall/Booth: 5-282
Safety & Security
Exein Analyzer
Exhibitor: Exein
Hall/Booth: 5-253
SoC / IP / IC Design
ZF I/O Interface Chip for Automotive HPC with SiliconAuto Companion Controller World’s First Live Demonstration of Real-Time Sensor Data Acquisition and PreProcessing on Silicon to Enable AD up to L4
Exhibitor: ZF Friedrichshafen AG powered by SiliconAuto
Hall/Booth: 4-665
Software
eXtremeDB/rt
Exhibitor: McObject
Hall/Booth: 4-238
Startup
M8 operating system
Exhibitor: Sqrrl
Hall/Booth: 4-604
Tools
Ambiq HeliaAOT
Exhibitor: Ambiq Micro
Hall/Booth: 4-581
Winner Community Choice Award 2026
CAN FD Expansion Cards(MEC-CAN-2F14i) for Compact Embedded Vision Systems
Exhibitor: Cervoz Technology
Hall/Booth: 1-401
Jury
For the record, the jury of seven members comprised:
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Sikora – Head of the Advisory Board of the embedded world Exhibition, Chairman of the embedded world Conference, head of the embedded award jury, Offenburg University / Hahn-Schickard
- Prof. Karlheinz Blankenbach – Chairman of the electronic displays conference committee, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
- Caspar Grote – Product Manager Events, Componeers GmbH
- Prof. Dr. Jean-Philippe Lauffenburger – Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
- Jeff Bier – President of engineering consulting firm BDTI, founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance
- Randall Restle – President of Restle LLC
- Prof. Dr. Weiyan Hou – Faculty of Information Technology, Zhengzhou University, China
