How do you go from some silicon wafer with some metallic lines printed on it to having a GUI desktop. I don’t understand the intersection between hardware and software at the fundamental level.
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It all starts with a silicone sandwich called a transistor. Silicone is what sand and glass are made of. In this sandwich, the goal is to decide id electricity can go from one “bread” to the other and by applying voltage to the “meat” or not. Basically bread 1 is electrified and if you electrify the meat with an additional source of energy, you can electrify bread two.
There are different types of sandwiches with different layers and if you connect them to each other you can do math with them.
Since we can stack billions of these sandwiched, and they can work really fast, we can make incredibly complex operations with them, like playing flappy bird.
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