APCA 2020: Excellence Award

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