Excellence Award
For the person, product or technology that advanced the PC more than any other in 2019.
Winner: AMD Zen 2 chiplet architecture
Set the foundation for an unprecedented disruption in CPU pricing and performance – the effects of which will be seen for many years – and is the most significant and impactful evolution in PC CPU design since the first dual-core desktop processor in 2005, pushing single processors to 64 cores and beyond.
All finalists
- Nvidia RTX
- AMD Ryzen 3rd-gen CPUs
- Intel Ice Lake 10th-gen mobile CPUs
- AMD Zen 2 chiplet architecture
- TSMC’s 7nm process
- Phison PS50 series SSD controllers
- OLED screens
- Wi-Fi 6
- Intel Project Athena
