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Who are the people which are doing innovations in computer and where are they located?

I mean, we see faster and faster compters are always coming in the market, where do they originate? Who is really doing innovations in computers. Is it mainly American companies and American people, living in America or somebody else. Who actually has the deepest knowhow about computer technology. Who is the real leader? And where do they manufacture these latest devices?

Public Comments

1. Innovation is a very subjective word. Many of the companies "Innovating" the hardware (processors, GPUs etc) are American companies, usually located in Silicon Valley California. Most of the innovation in this field is spearheaded by Intel, AMD, IBM, Nvidia and ATi (owned by AMD). As far as the smaller components go, they are usually designed and built in the far east (China, Taiwan, etc). In some way's it could be said that these are innovators in that they enable computers to become smaller, more densely packed, and cheaper. In terms of the complete package... well that's anyone's guess, There are big American, Japanese and European companies all "Innovating" in terms of the way it's all put together. Finally, much of the innovation that has happened recently, has taken place in the software front. A lot of this is headquartered in silicon valley and of course Redmond Washington (Microsoft) but really takes place in every country wherever a computer is. So it is really a global affair, but in short, most of the thinking happens in California and Japan, and most of the grunt work in the far east.