Hi, how exactly cpu becomes clever from just be a piece of silicon? Initially its just a piece of stone and metal with photolithography on it, and then somehow it piece of stone starts understand commands, how exactly first instruction is loaded to a piece of stone?
In: Engineering
I could not find a satisfying answer to this question when I began asking it a few years ago. I asked ChatGPT to elaborate more and more and couldn’t get to a point that made sense.
Most people (even those on this site) are happy with the answer that when powered, a CPU begins processing instructions at a memory address. How does putting an electrical potential across a CPU (billions of transistors) cause it to even know where to look for the memory address, how does it know what a memory address is. How does it read its own firmware, how does it know what instructions it can run.
Good luck.
Latest Answers