San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — MicroDesign Resources announced the winners of its second annual Analyst's Choice and Technology Awards, honoring the best new microprocessor chips and the most promising new microprocessor technology unveiled in 2000. The award winners were selected by MDR's technology analysts, the team behind the internationally recognized industry newsletter Microprocessor… Report and the annual Microprocessor Forum and Embedded Processor Forum.

MDR's Analyst's Choice Awards were awarded in eight categories, recognizing excellence in semiconductor technology innovation, design, and implementation. The categories, winners, and finalists (in alphabetical
order) are:

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Best PC Processor
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Winner: AMD Athlon

Finalists:
AMD Duron
IBM PowerPC 750CX
Intel Pentium 4

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Best Mobile PC Processor
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Winner: Intel Mobile Pentium w/ SpeedStep Technology

Finalists:
VIA Cyrix III with LongHaul
AMD K6-2+ with PowerNow! Technology
Transmeta Crusoe

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Best Server/Workstation Processor
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Winner: Sun UltraSPARC III

Finalists:
IBM Freeway for eServer z900
Intel Itanium
Intel Pentium III Xeon w/integrated L2 cache

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Best Network Processor
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Winner: Cisco Toaster 2

Finalists:
Chameleon Systems CS2112
IBM PowerNP NP4Gs3
Intel IXP 1200
Lexra NetVortex
Vitesse/Sitera IQ2000

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Best Media Processor
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Winner: Equator MAP-CA

Finalists:
BOPS ManArray
Improv Jazz
Philips pnx8500 Nexperia
Sony Emotion Engine
Sun MAJC-5200

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Best Highly Integrated Processor
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Winner: National Semiconductor Geode

Finalists:
Cirrus Maverick EP9312
IBM PowerPC 440GP
Motorola MCF5407

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Best Digital-Signal Processor
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Winner: TI TMS320C55x

Finalists:
Infineon Carmel2000
StarCore SC140
Tensilica XTensa with Vectra DSP Engine
TI TMS320C64x

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Best Embedded Processor
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Winner: Intel XScale

Finalists:
Alchemy Au1000
MIPS64 20Kc
Motorola ColdFire V4e

Winner of this year's MDR Technology Award, honoring the most promising microprocessor technology disclosed in 2000, was EUV LLC for its efforts to develop and commercialize extreme ultraviolet lithography technology for semiconductor fabrication.

 
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