EXCELLENCE AWARD

For the person, product or technology that advanced the PC more than any other in 2019.

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

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.