Can someone explain what is physically going on in a CPU in a desktop? Is it literally just a lot of transistors on a Si die?
>>8146473
>Can someone explain what is physically going on in a CPU in a desktop
Electrons move around.
>>8146473
Look up logic gates, FSMs, FullAdders and memory. In that order.
It's still just a shitload of transistors, but the theory behind it is really interesting
on/off switches connected to other on/off switches grouped in logic gates connected to other logic gates grouped in larger logic units connected to other larger logic units etc.
>>8146473
Little tiny leprechauns move around gears and handles to make your megahurtz work.
>>8146618
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it's basically like the movie "Tron"
The CPU is divided up into lobes, each of which handles a specific type of task. For example, one is responsible for logical functions, one for cognition, one for motor skills, and one for personality.
Basically it takes whatever computation you wanted to do, and looks it up online to see if someone else has already done it and just pastes it on your screen.
You can think of a computer as a two dimensional grid of yes-no switches arrayed in an pattern connected by electrical flow. This "address matrix" or memory register stores bits, the basic unit of information, as a yes or no, depending on whether it is on or off.
A program is simply a high level set of instructions for telling the computer, via an interpolated layer of code called machine language (binary 1001000 stuff) how to turn those switches off an on. As a result, the computer can be made to do interesting and handy things.
That's really all there is to it.
>>8146618
Haha good one m8.
>>8146683
He.. yeah. Kinda funny too, I guess.
>>8146752
Uh... okay.
>>8146868
NO. SHUT THE FUCK UP. THE JOKE HAS BEEN DONE ALREADY YOU MOTHERFUCKER. BACK TO /B/ IF YOU JUST WANT TO LITERALLY RE-POST MEMES ALL DAY, FAGGOT
One guy makes a joke and next thing you know everyone in the board believes themselves to be the next George Carlin.
