Micro Chips

[StephenG]

How does a Micro chip acually work, i.e How can a tiny little thing contain so much info using just 1's and 0's. has anyone heard the theory the technology came from Aliens

[Hamish]

Physics can describe complex situation using maths, this is what the computer does. The ones and 0's form a number system called biary which works in base 2 rather than 10 (conventional numbers). I realy don't think aliens had anything to do with it.

[derbyram]

There are 10 kinds of people in this world - ones that understand binary and ones who don't

[dodgyshirt]

Well I`m in the 50% that don`t, the other 75% are all clever sods

[dj_ajax]

Nah thats computing not electronics the thing is with chips they are semiconductors. Which means they dont conduct electricity very well but enough to control it so they can have a high voltage and a low voltage e.g 1 and 0. This is how they can have a binary output. Hope that helps.

[RHCP rule]

yeah i do physics a-level, they are made from tiny silicon plates, which are in most cases semi-conductors. binary digits (bits) are on off pulses that allow systems to work with ease, taking loadsa long numbers and transferring them into shorter ones.

[keltik]

im pretty sure nobody knows. but i will say that it was probly invented by a 6 year old by accident. not even the rep at AMD can give me a strait answer!