Processor Chips

[washing machine]

How do these work, exactly?

[tragabigzanda]

Do you know how discrete electronics work (resistors, capacitors, etc)? Semi-conductors are basically layers stacked upon each other of small components doing similar things. Specific programming functions go beyond my understanding, but think of an old tube radio, but all the electrical components are squished flat and stacked on top of each other, with conductive/non-conductive relationships mapped out in minute detail. That plus binary on/off signaling is basically it I think?

[E.H. Ruddock]

trag

[tragabigzanda]

what?!

[tragabigzanda]

I've done my share of soldering and I've spent a lot of time with the Radioshack Home Electronics Learning Kit. Lay off!

[spike]

Does this have something to do with computers?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Do you know how discrete electronics work (resistors, capacitors, etc)? Semi-conductors are basically layers stacked upon each other of small components doing similar things. Specific programming functions go beyond my understanding, but think of an old tube radio, but all the electrical components are squished flat and stacked on top of each other, with conductive/non-conductive relationships mapped out in minute detail. That plus binary on/off signaling is basically it I think?

Correct.

[Norah]

trag

lolol

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Not gonna lie - I was just clicking around and when I saw this thread title I thought it said Professor Chips and that I was in Food & Debate.

[washing machine]

Do you know how discrete electronics work (resistors, capacitors, etc)?

no.

Semi-conductors are basically layers stacked upon each other of small components doing similar things.

What kind of things?

Specific programming functions go beyond my understanding

Mine too. As well as basic programming functions. This is why I asked the question in the OP.

, but think of an old tube radio

You're probably going to hate me, but how do tube radios work?

, but all the electrical components are squished flat and stacked on top of each other,

ok this I get

with conductive/non-conductive relationships mapped out in minute detail.

welp lost me again

That plus binary on/off signaling

take it to news and debate

is basically it I think?

who knows?

[Norah]

can you attack the whale?

[washing machine]

When you trace an imaginary line from the chip to (ultimately) the screen, does it go through other devices in the hardware as well? What material is the imaginary line? Electricity? data? mercury?

Also, how does the data originate within the chip?

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Think of a PC as the human digestive system.

The mouth is the mouse and keyboard. That's where the information goes in.

The stomach is the processor. It doesn't hold stuff for long. Just breaks up the data, sorts it, decides where it should go. It has to do it at a reasonably quick rate because there's usually more stuff coming into the mouth at some point to get processed. You don't want a backlog.

The hard drives store all the good stuff i.e. fat, mineral/vitamin stores, etc.

The bowel is the RAM. It stores the main crap for short periods until it's ready. It gets purged regularly.

The asshole is social media. Facebook, Twitter, RM. That's where all the output/shit goes.

[washing machine]

Oh damn. I actually understand that perfectly. You, sir, have outsmarted the schtick.

[washing machine]

This question may or may not have to do with processor chips, but why do factory resets sometimes help clear bugs that come with OS upgrades on a smart phone?

[BurtReynolds]

Because OS developers are lazy incompetent assholes.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Remember Chip’s challenge?

[Ello Sailor]

Remember Chip’s challenge?

When I was 14 my girlfriend had a shitty, old family PC and that was the only game on it. This was in, like, 2001. Unbelievable.

Fuck Chip's Challenge.

[spike]

leave it to a RMer to go to his high school girlfriend's house and... jump on the family computer.

[Ello Sailor]

We were like 14! and used it once to laugh at how old and shitty it was. Edgy teen stuff.

Anyway, you met your wife on your family computer lmao got his ass.