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What do computer hardware engineers help make?
Besides making hardware for computers and phones, what else do these engineers make? What is the hardware applied to?
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John Easton CEng FIET FBCS CITP
Design large computer systems for companies
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Hi Yaritza
Remember that there is a lot of different hardware out there. It's not just the computers themselves, there are things like disk drives, network devices like routers and switches. If you look at large systems then you will have computers as controllers inside the larger devices. All of these need to be made and designed. Hardware engineers do this.
I don't know whether you'd also thought of chip design as part of this too. The likes of Intel, ARM, Nvidia, AMD etc all design chips that get used to make computer systems. Someone has to design these chips too. And while we're on chips, what about memory chips or graphics chips.
Basically hardware designers get to create lots of cool stuff ;-)
Remember that there is a lot of different hardware out there. It's not just the computers themselves, there are things like disk drives, network devices like routers and switches. If you look at large systems then you will have computers as controllers inside the larger devices. All of these need to be made and designed. Hardware engineers do this.
I don't know whether you'd also thought of chip design as part of this too. The likes of Intel, ARM, Nvidia, AMD etc all design chips that get used to make computer systems. Someone has to design these chips too. And while we're on chips, what about memory chips or graphics chips.
Basically hardware designers get to create lots of cool stuff ;-)