how first instruction is loaded to devices? Is just some electricity that stores in chips somehow?

Question

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

Answer 1

If you have 50 hours to spare I recommend watching a series on youtube from Ben Eater [breadboard computer](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU). He build a cpu from “scratch”. It helped me understand how it works