This report spotlights the most innovative processors of 2005 in the Desktop/Mobile PC and Server categories. Only chips that were released for production shipments during the calendar year were eligible to be selected as nominees. The nominations were based on the best public information available to our analysts in December 2005.
The report begins with two award articles naming the winners of the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Awards for 2005. What follows is a gathering of Microprocessor Report articles published throughout the year on the processors nominated.