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

The 1s and 0s are already written down on the chip. Running power let’s the computer read it