Analysts' Choice Winners for 2018

摘要

To recognize the top semiconductor offerings of the year, The Linley Group presents its 2018 Analysts' Choice Awards. These awards span several categories: embedded processors, mobile processors, server processors, processor-IP (intellectual property) cores, networking chips, and related technology. We've presented these awards in Microprocessor Report for many years. (For a list of last year's winners, see MPR 1/15/18, "Analysts' Choice Winners for 2017.") To choose each winner, The Linley Group's team of technology analysts gathered to discuss the merits of the top offerings that entered production (or, in the case of IP, production RTL) in 2018. This guideline eliminates "paper" products and allows us to evaluate delivered capabilities, not promises. We also considered only merchant offerings (e.g., chips that sell to system vendors) and not ASIC or in-house designs.