LONDON — Freescale Semiconductor has set June 6th as the deadline for entries to its European design challenge, which this year is targeted at projects that encourage innovation in environmental design and offers incentives to encourage designers to "go green."
Five finalists will receive $1,000 each. The first place winner of the European and all regional Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) design challenges will receive $10,000, second place receives $5,000 and third place receives $2,000.
Winners of each regional competition will be announced at their corresponding FTF event . FTF Europe takes place October 7-8, 2008 in Paris, France.
Each regional first place winner, a total of five, will be invited to compete against each other for the $50,000 grand prize at the end of the year.
The company is looking for projects that will lead to less energy usage, limit the environmental impact of existing products, and create new "greener" products.
Participants must create designs using a select group of solutions from Freescale's product portfolio, and will retain the intellectual property rights to their designs.
The design challenge is open to engineers in the Americas, Japan, Europe, China and India.
