CES 2012 rumbles on, but I'm just about to board a plane back to the UK. So with my time in Las Vegas coming to an end, who are the winners and losers of the show?

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A lot of people I spoke to today seemed comprehensively underwhelmed by the supposed cutting-edge of consumer electronics. There's noise, there's hoards of inquisitive, pawing attendees and there's a whole lot of walking around, but...

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CES is an exercise in two things; queuing and hyperbole. Today, set in the artifice of the endless Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, is all about speeches. From 8am to 8pm, companies try to persuade and suggest that they have 'the next big thing' - or at the very least something close.

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The Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, is 40 years old today. While not many people will have heard of it, the 4004 is still one of the most significant technology launches of all time.

First advertised in the 15 November, 1971 edition of Electronic News, the 4004 was designed for use in a Busicom 141-PF calculator. The importance of microprocessors/CPUs in modern computing cannot be overstated. Simply put; the 4004 changed the way people thought about computers and kick-started a technological revolution that is still alive today.

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The personal computer has been good to Intel. Ever since the original IBM PC the market has been dominated by what are known as x86 processors, and although it has always had rivals - AMD in particular, producing K6, Athlon and Phenom chips - Intel has always had a strong grip on the market for this technology. And when portables, laptops and then netbooks followed, they followed the PC's lead - the vast majority using Intel's x86 products.

But today there are new computers in town, and if anything they're more personal: smartphones and tablets. So very few of those devices have 'Intel Inside' - and the company's activities at this year's Computex trade show underline how much it has invested in changing that.

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Retailer PC World is to take advantage of the popularity of Angry Birds by offering a free version of the addictive game to people who join its own app store. The free version, which can be played on desktop and portable computers, is available to those who register with Intel App Up Center between 1 February and 31 March 2011, although the supply is limited to 15,000 downloads in total. No purchase is required. Those who want to spend several hours attempting to break down pig-built fortresses with our feathered brethren can register on the Currys Digital or PC World websites for a free version of Angry Birds.