Acutally, chips like that still exist. They are called Microcontrollers, and are basically tiny computers stuffed into microchips. They can probably run as fast as 20 mhz, and are typically used to calculate one kind of action. They run on really simple programming languages (PICbasic, OOpic, Assembly Code, Proton, etc...)
Those languages are about 1 step up from straight binary (although they use binary in their programming. They may be as simple as it gets, I'm not sure.)

I think that they use them in things like cars, to detect and calculate small things, like sensory inputs. I wouldn't be suprised if a microcontroller was used to blow the airbags in the case of an accident. Most people can show you a demo of how they can turn an LED on and off, very basic actions like that.

The clock speed is actually pretty irrelevant when running those types of chips. 700khz is actually pretty good if you think about it. It means that you are executing 700,000 cycles every second (I think it is every second). For a lot of the programs, you actually have to put in dummy code to slow the chips down so that they won't run their actions too fast. Imagine turning an LED on and off 700,000 times a second. It would kind of not do anything that you wanted it to do.

Wow. That's really interesting. Thanks for that.

Welcome to PTF, by the way.

Yeah thank you for that, that helped me out, I never new there were processors in cars and calculators and stuff like that, oh and welcome to ptf

yes but intel doesnt make graphics processors, AMD/ATI does

well i have read that amd is good when you like to playing games and if you will download so many games. and yes it is cheaper. but it still better to use intel cause they have some benefits which you can't find in amd. i think intel works faster than amd.

Intel makes some low end integrated graphics processors.

Well since AMD bought ATI, people will tell you that AMD is better for gaming. I don't think that they actually perform any better.

Besides, there is always nVidia (which I found out in Latin means hatred, derived from the word invidia)

yes that is what i hear mostly from people that amd is really good for gaming. well they said that they have proved it once they have used it. i can't really tell since i don't really have not purchased amd yet. i have only used intel ever since.

Intel GMA = too weak to do any gaming on,theyre more like 2D graphical outputs on your computer that have basic 3D abilities

I never talked about the graphics cards. If you want graphics, you go with nVidia or ATI. Intel really makes graphics cards more for the sake of making them than actual performance.

Also realize that ATI still produces Intel cards, even though AMD bought them out. They are technically still separate companies, although now they work more closely together.