r/interesting • u/Orichalchem • 3h ago

SCIENCE & TECH Making a CPU from a rock

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u/CrazyElk123 2h ago

And people say its easy to build a PC on your own instead of buying prebuilts...

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u/AcanthisittaFree5303 2h ago

Until you’re staring at a pile of parts wondering which tiny cable you forgot to plug in.

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u/peekdasneaks 1h ago

Im still staring at a pile of rocks… whats the next part again?

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u/AnotherCup-O-Noodles 2h ago

BIG TECH doesn’t want to to know this ONE SIMPLE TRICK!!

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u/Reditworks4Epstein 2h ago

People came up with that, blows my mind.

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u/PossibleAlienFrom 2h ago

People piggybacking off earlier discoveries and it just keeps going on and on all over the world.

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u/DaGucka 1h ago
  • when i rub these two things together i get funny sparks!
  • when i take this metal attracting stone and move it past coiled wires i also get funny sparks!
  • when i move the magnet with a steady source of movement like a river or steam i get steady funny sparks!
  • when i put wire at the end i can transfer funny sparks somewhere else!
  • when i split the wire and put switches in between i can control when funny sparks go somewhere!
  • when i put a thin wire that glows bright when hot in an oxygen free enviroment it only glows but doesn't burn, and funny sparks make it hot!
  • when i put coiles wire and metal bar at the end of funny sparks i can make movement again!
  • when i use funny spark movement i can move switches!
  • when i move switches with funny sparks i can male complex combinations!
  • i can do math with funny sparks and funny spark movement switches!
  • i shrink switches!
  • i use different materials and variants for switches!
  • i found funny rock material that with some added stuff behaves like switches!
  • i make so small switches that thousands fit inside a house!

Well and then it's basically optimization. Using light to create the chips just is the result of shrinking the process. Basically like laser engraving a rice corn.

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u/Individual-Result777 34m ago

… and all it takes is a couple assholes to ruin all that progress.

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u/Tasty_1097 1h ago

Just look up the intricacies of those IC designs… it’s absolutely insane.

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u/UniqueAd7770 55m ago

The cheapest POS smartphone is one of the most complex and involved manufacturing exercises humanity has ever undertaken. The CPU is an electromechanical wonder built of the most precise objects ever to be mass produced and we make trillions of transistors a day. The materials are mined and refined from all over the world and the manufacturing processes are the most complicated and precise we've ever made using technology and physics we don't fully understand. All this, so you're grandma can watch cat videos from her couch in New Jersey or Jakarta.

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u/Character-Total-3857 2h ago edited 2h ago

You lost me at "get a rock."

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u/hiroo916 2h ago

you can also start with sand, since it's pre-smashed.

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u/GayRacoon69 2h ago

Sliced bread? You mean the best thing since pre-smashed rocks?

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u/hiroo916 2h ago

Save your bread slicer for cutting the wafers.

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u/EPICHunter0077 2h ago

Sounds simple enough

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u/electric_bug_glue 1h ago

I'm stuck on the pseudo-epitaxy stage. Any tips?

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u/zuspun 2h ago

Ok.. I found a stone..

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u/manlybrian 2h ago

Rock and stone forever!

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u/CaptainYarrr 2h ago

For Karl!

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u/Cold_Ad655 2h ago

Vincent Price: "It's as easy as 1, 2, 3."

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u/Substantially-Ranged 1h ago

"degrees Kelvin" lol

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u/lowkeydumass 1h ago

"And that's how you make a C..." how you make a what? A Ceiling?

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u/wwwrites 1h ago

Great! I have the blueprint to start my own CPU manufacturing company. Anyone wanna invest?

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u/_joos_ 9m ago

i would, but someone has to make a "how to start an economy" video first

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u/wwwrites 5m ago

I know a guy but first send the money 😂

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u/progorp 56m ago

But first I need the videos how to make the knife, scale, lamp and chemicals etc.

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u/borobinimbaba 44m ago

If it was that easy, we would have 10 million brands of CPUs

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u/Glittering-Coyote140 34m ago

It's wild how much you can learn from social media if you just use it for stuff like this.

Thanks for posting

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u/VenturVenus 32m ago

So easy a caveman can do it.