Microchips, anyone? (:

Saw this article "25 Microchips That Shook the World" by Brian R. Santo hosted on IEEE spectrum. how many of these chips affected your life? my list contains only:

1. Texas Instruments TMC0281 Speech Synthesizer (1978) - used in the featured "Speak and Read" machine. ours was the YELLOW version though.

2. Kodak KAF-1300 Image Sensor (1986) - this is the 'great great .... grandfather/mother' of all future CCD cameras?

3. Intel 8088 Microprocessor (1979) - if you ever used a PC (cf Mac or Apple, but the latest Macs are based on Intel processors anyway), this has to be in your list (:

4. Micronas Semiconductor MAS3507 MP3 Decoder (1997) - i dun own an iPod, but guess any portable mp3 player will require some derivation of this chip?

5. Amati Communications Overture ADSL Chip Set (1994) - if u used Singnet's broadband, u're on ADSL. Singnet lost me as their customer after they chose to force me to take up 24mths contract upon renewal when I can only utilise less than half of it as we're leaving for shanghai.

6. Chips & Technologies AT Chip Set (1985) - our very first computer@home in 1991 is a 80286 and it runs on this C&T AT chipset i recall seeing when i opened up the cpu. fond memory always of that computer.

7. Toshiba NAND Flash Memory (1989) - thumbdrive, usb drive, watever u called it, it's quite impossible this piece of technology is not part of your life today, especially if u're reading this post :P

so my count's only SEVEN, wat's yours? (: