To recognize the top semiconductor offerings of the year, The Linley Group presents its 2019 Analysts' Choice Awards. These awards span several categories: AI accelerators, server/PC processors, embedded processors, mobile 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 1/21/19, "Analysts' Choice Winners for 2018.") 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 2019. This guideline eliminates "paper" products and allows us to evaluate delivered capabilities, not promises. This year, in addition to merchant offerings (e.g., chips that sell to system vendors), we included ASIC and in-house designs as long as the company released sufficient data to enable a fair evaluation.
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