At the Intel Museum in Santa Clara, you can experience the power of computer chips first hand, and the evolution of their development. Explore the pages of this site and interact with the Web movies to learn more about the museum and computer chips.
Various exhibits describe how computer chips are made and used.
Learn to distinguish a microprocessor from memory and embedded control chips. See how chips are constructed, layer upon layer, on wafers of silicon, the primary component of ordinary beach sand. A microprocessor, the size of a dime, is enlarged to a ten-foot square. Light patterns and animated voices are used to explain the chip's main functional areas and how it processes information. Transistors are the building blocks of the microprocessor, which is the brain of the computer.