What kind of projects (besides the obvious OS stuff) use assembly language?

Question

Seemingly, no one uses assembly nowadays other than to develop device drivers, or the very core of OS kernels etc. Anyone has knowledge of it being currently used for other thin

Answer 1

I believe that the Folding@Home parallel computing project uses optimized assembly code for maximum speed.*

 * Note: this does not mean assembly is always faster then C/C++.