Ubiquitous chips

The purpose of this post to make you appreciate the omnipresence and usefulness of microchips in our life. Here are some of the gadgets which have become an inseparable part of our life. Following are some of the devices which we use without thinking about its brain.

 1) Laptops

There is a high probability that you are reading this post in your laptop or PC. It has become an integral part of our home and workplace.
There are two major companies who design microprocessors for laptops and PC- Intel and AMD. 

i) Intel Core i7

ii) AMD Athlon X2

2) Smartphones

Every year millions of smartphones are sold all over the world. The market is characterised by cut-throat competition and  follows the innovate-or-perish law. The computing power has grown exponentially and led to the birth of growing app industry. Qualcomm is the largest designer of smartphone chip and its suite of SoC(system-on-a-chip) Snapdragon is present in smartphones of Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, HTC to name a few.

 Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

3) Gaming consoles

PlayStation 4

Video games have evolved from Pac-Man in the 1980s to Call of Duty today. The graphics and overall user-experience have been enhanced. This is mainly due to powerful hardware and software.

Die of Cell processor, which is inside PlayStation gaming consoles. 

4) Server

Servers are machines responsible for hosting web pages, maintaining database and sharing of resources. You are viewing this blog because your device sent a request to the web server and in return server sent you the information.

Intel Xeon is the well-known server chip used in millions of servers today.

Intel Xeon 5500