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  • can transistors contain programs ? or only if they are in the form of microchips?

    as in many billions then you can have programs ?

    so A transistor can not have programs on it.... but MANY TRANSISTORS togheter can have programs ?

    so normally a transistor can only transmitt 1 0 .. but not a whole programs or calculations as you would need many of these together right?

  • that was the inside of an Xbox360

    

  • guys, to understand a chip, u need to understand 1 transistors, then 2 transistors in connection, THEN 4 BILLION TRANSISTORS.

  • @flashmate99 that is what i am trying to do... i wonder if transistors can have programs on them..each alone but i guess not

    can transistors contain programs ? or only if they are in the form of microchips?

    as in many billions then you can have programs ?

    so A transistor can not have programs on it.... but MANY TRANSISTORS togheter can have programs ?

    so normally a transistor can only transmitt 1 0 .. but not a whole programs or calculations as you would need many of these together right?

  • @flashmate99 but can one transistor have programs on it? or is it irrelevant? and only can a transistor be a amplifier and leader and switch.... and only can promote and hold codes in collections such in billions as in CPU?

    " handful of them can hold programs and calculate"

  • @flashmate99 also is ram made up of transistors and what is the difference between RAM and transistors and CPU .. speaking in this regards.. because i red and i did not understand wiki... but in this regard i would understand it if we speak about transistors

  • 0:34 lol thats the inside of an xbox 360

  • THIS

    GUY

    SUCKS. >:(

  • Stop saying that this video doesn't explain anything.

    He explained the basics very easy and understandable, but you don't you think that you will know everything there is to know by watching a 1minute video.

    This is complicated stuff, and i think a good way to understand how the switch system works, is by playing Gmod with the Wiremod addon.

  • Every time I learn more about computers I get more questions argh.

  • stop 0:07 :DD

  • what is those battery formed parts for kind a things?

  • Look up "Little Big Planet Calculator" it shows how calculators work and is probably the BEST representation of how they work. Its ALL just "On and Off" switches.

  • that was a xbox 360 board

  • @xXFIREWIREXx I noticed that too #LOL!

  • PERFECT for my research paper, the transistor part was confusing me

  • yeah um that really didn't explain how a microchip works.

  • Yeah people are fucktards, i can't find a proper explanation. "HOW A MICROCHIP WORKS, it's in your computer and it has transistors in it and it converts into binary and blah blah blah, its amazing!"

    That's how it's made, and what it does. Not how it works. FUCK

  • @samuelmichaud You want to know how they interact, not how they work. ;)

  • Pretty much what I knew lol...

  • This didnt explain much. I thought I might finally learn what a chip does -- I am still waiting.

  • @12FlyMe go to school then

  • @12FlyMe He actually explained exactly how they work. You just have to think abstractly what you can do with a true-false logic gate, or a series of them.

    If you want to find out how a chip itself interacts with the software, then look up abstraction layers.

  • @SirBartimaeus well maybe so. I can understand what you could do with a series of T F gates. But I don't know how the chip works. How does the chip "decide" if something is T or F. Im average intelligence, a college grad, I worked a power plant professionally for 30 year, and never blew it up. And I don't understand much more about chips after this guy "explained it" than before.

    It's probably very clear to those of you who already knew it.

  • @12FlyMe Well, each switch "transistor" has three "pegs" the in-current peg, the out-current peg, and the "switch" peg between them. when a current is applied to the switch peg, a current will not flow through the transistor making false. But when there's not current to the switch peg, current will flow, meaning true. it's basically a logical not gate. the game Minecraft has them, and people have made some nifty things using them. Including an 8-bit adding machine.

  • Well it actually doesn't add negatives. It almost seems a CPU was designed by accountants. It uses entries vs counter entries to get teh job done just like ledgers.

  • Learn how to subtract with binary it blows your mind

  • Did you know a CPU can only Add? That blows peoples minds away how it does all math calculation using addition.

  • it also adds negative numbers.

  • mm its interesting how a cpu cant do somthing that i could do in second grade it just goes to show that we still have ways to go with technology

  • As mentioned by xj2yzz said, it adds negatives which is the same as subtraction. So first you perform a binary inversion against the subtrahend, add one to the result, then add the the sum to the minuend to find the difference.

  • Oh, and it can multiply. Generally a microprocessor implements some form of a pyramid multiplier as is found in Donald Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Volume 2. Far too complex to describe here though.

  • doesn't matter what does the 360 has, it always broke down.

  • That was cool, always a mystery till now. Also it's been a while since eHow uploaded something worth watching!

  • thanks im 13 but right now i think i wanna be a computer engineer thanks for the basics

  • good for you man! me too, i have wanted to be since i was your age as well, stick to your guns at school, get into a good college and the possibilities are endless, trust me, hard work pays off

  • Cool, Thanks for The info :D

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