Well, now that we have said good-bye to the year 2003, we are ready to sum up the results of the poll we have had on our site in the end of the year. Let’s find out what companies you, our readers, considered the best in their field in the past year.

The poll has been up on X-bit labs site for one and a half months. More than 10,000 people took part in this poll. Basing on the opinion expressed by our readers we decided to give 9 awards to the winners of this poll. Please, meet the winners now!

The Best CPU Maker 2003: AMD

Here our readers chose AMD Company, which made a revolution in the processor market in 2003 and introduced its own 64bit Athlon 64 processors for desktop systems and 64-bit Opteron processors for servers. This was the determinative for more than 2/3 of our readers and they called AMD the best CPU maker of the year 2003.