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Nah, I wasn't wondering!

I just thought I would share these nice videos giving an insight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNN_tTXABUA (CPU, registers and busses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBDoT8o4q00 (ALU)

Anyone else know about other videos?

I love know-how movies:

What happens inside a Popcorn Bag in a Microwave?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2FkJuO ... 64_YhxQWHA

good videos but they can make it even easier: look how the actress Meg Ryan explain the complex mathematical puzzle called "Zeno's Paradox" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuftF3ZnMZM
also the yoxola popcorn video are great.

i find this usefull "How to Make a Microprocessor" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHAso1yM-D4 the professor was able to project the initials of a volunteer onto a grain of rice.
also i may try this someday "Making your own 4 bit computer from transistors" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xISG4nGTQYE since the parts are easy to obtain.

You need solid state memory to make practical computers(caches, microcode PROM etc), then complex chemistry and expensive equipment to manufacture designs at nano-scale. If it was even remotely practical there wouldn't be a global cartel economy around chip manufacturing..

tj1010 wrote:If it was even remotely practical there wouldn't be a global cartel economy around chip manufacturing..

My prediction is that anyone will soon be able to upload a "chip schematic" and order a custom microchip. People are already designing their own CPUs on FPGAs and in logic simulators, even in Minecraft.

Joakim Christiansen wrote:

tj1010 wrote:If it was even remotely practical there wouldn't be a global cartel economy around chip manufacturing..

My prediction is that anyone will soon be able to upload a "chip schematic" and order a custom microchip. People are already designing their own CPUs on FPGAs and in logic simulators, even in Minecraft.

There will probably be steep bulk requirements even when that happens(ex: $1,500:20u). Then you have PCB issues; BGA stuff screws up even with precision manufacturing environments, and SMD mass production isn't feasible by hand.

I might be more of a believer when I see precision SMD production by 3D printers and cheap robotics. But right now those are mostly used for cheap toys and blog revenue..

Just take a real rat brain and put it into a machine/robot.
- Robot with a biological brain
- Robot with a rat brain
- Discovery Channel: Next World - Future Intelligence-5/5
- Robo Rat - The Brain/Machine Interface
- rat brain robot

i have searched for ( 3d printer print electronics ), and surprised that the subject are advanced so much and not restricted to printing 3D toys
look as an example this new company with about 7 employees for rapid 3D printing of circuit boards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... P2dPRohaWk (a tour inside the company)
https://www.facebook.com/CartesianCompany
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ca ... uit-boards

another company "AgIC Print - Printing circuit boards with home printers"
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/15 ... home-print

printing a complete working speaker:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... lectronic/

so it is not far the day when we order a custom pc and asus/hp/lenovo etc send it as a downloadable file, then we send this to a public place (near the public washing machine) to print the new pc on a special paper, then we fit this inside our desktop/laptop case frame which we already have . may be Intel begins from now to develop such paper cpu