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Computer CPU chips are made of a material called "monocrystalline silicon". The single-crystal silicon material before being cut is a thin circular piece called a "wafer". 5. Why are CPUs so expensive? CPUs are expensive, so naturally, the cost will not be below. The wafers are purchased...
Modern PCs are built out of a collection of seven primary components: the CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, motherboard, case, and power supply. Each of these—yes, even the case—now contains anywhere from a few microchips to potentially hundreds of chips that handle a wide variety of tasks. Audi...
How microchips are made Tiny skyscrapers Modern chips can have up to 100 layers, which all need to align on top of each other with nanometer precision (called 'overlay'). The size of the features printed on the chip varies depending on the layer, which means that different types of lithogr...
Regardless of how much silicon Apple eventually designs, it still needs to manufactureits chips externally. That requires massive fabrication plants owned by foundry companies like TSMC. More than 90% of the world's advanced chips are made by TSMC in Taiwan, which leaves Apple and the re...
One factory might specialize in RAM chips; another makes top-quality CPUs. The intensity of CPU creation is one really good example of how much work and material goes into a single computer component. CPUs are made mostly of crystalline silicon, which can be sourced from common sand. First,...
It's made from a chemical compound called silicon dioxide (silicon is also the stuff from which computer chips are made), and you can find it in sand and most types of rock. Perhaps the most interesting thing about quartz is that it's piezoelectric. That means if you squeeze a quartz ...
How are integrated circuits made?How do we make something like a memory or processor chip for a computer? It all starts with a raw chemical element such as silicon, which is chemically treated or doped to make it have different electrical properties......
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After memory chips are made, they need a way to be connected to your computer’s motherboard. Printed circuit boards (PCB) solve this problem by providing a way to connect the chips to the motherboard. To accomplish this, chips are mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB) and the final...