• elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1571·
    2 months ago

    I mean, anything can look like a conspiracy to a layperson who pays zero attention to 60 years of incremental progress and focuses solely on the end result. It’s the same reason why people think vaccines are evil, or that 5G towers cause COVID.

    • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
      22·
      2 months ago

      I was of the understanding, it was in fact covid that caused 5g towers.

      I think there’s something in that for all of us… mmmm yes

      • Honytawk
        17·
        2 months ago

        You mean like how autistic persons cause vaccines?

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          I’ll wait until Jenny McCarthy tells me chips are made by aliens, thank you very much.

          You can’t believe everything you read, y’know.

          • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
            4·
            2 months ago

            Aliens caused covid, so the covid vaccines caused autism, so the autistic people create 5G and microchips to propell out species forward.

            thanks, aliens

    • SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 months ago

      5G towers do cause covid. Without 5G my WiFi would be far too shitty to book a cinema seat and get nice and infected by Karen her unvaccinated crotch goblins.

      Edit: yes I am looking at a different provider.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

      But also, it would be nice to invest a bit more in science and engineering (with smaller class sizes, more educated teachers, and more hands on experimentation) rather than doing “teach the controversy” shit in auditorium sized rooms full of kids who have already been indoctrinated to believe in magic.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    85·
    2 months ago

    I could probably build a computer from scratch, but it’s not gonna be a modern one with impossibly small microchips and bajillions of transistors. It’s gonna be a room-sized behemoth with only like 8bits of memory that takes 24 hours to compute 1+1.

      • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        I’m hoping the guy from Primitive Technology will eventually work his way up to that at some point.

        • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 months ago

          They’re playing one of those games where you crash on a planet and go from rock to bow and arrow to quantum phase disruptors, but for real.

      • weker01@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        2 months ago

        He uses a microcontroller though for his breadboard PC. A microcontroller that is built in a fab.

        • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          I was going to add that disclaimer, but it’s also a step closer and interesting nonetheless.

          I’d also recommend Breaking Taps, while he does amazing stuff in a home lab it also has the disclaimer that he’s able to get it already has some super interesting but rare stuff. Electron microscope etc.

          I thought I saw someone making homemade, low power processors but for the life of me I can’t remember who or where.

        • Kevin@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          That’s the 6502 one you’re talking about though, what about the previous one (granted it still used a bunch of ICs, but not a microcontroller per se)

    • AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 months ago

      If you only care about adding numbers, you can e.g. do that using water or marbles. You only need to build an XOR gate, an AND gate and an OR gate.

      In case of water, the gate will have two inputs as water streams. They should be aligned so that when the streams hit each other, the water will flow into a cup in the center of the apparatus. When the streams don’t hit each other, the water passes the first cup and flows into another cup on the bottom. Carrying the water out at the bottom is the XOR gate, carrying the water out at the center is the AND gate and both cups together are the OR gate.

      Then it’s just about setting up the circuit and that would be a full adder without electronics.

  • Vivendi
    63·
    2 months ago

    You can absolutely go on a tour inside a chip factory, just not in fucking TSMC

    • Zement@feddit.nl
      13·
      2 months ago

      This stuff is half way up my professional alley and when I read it I had to think about the posts on hackaday the last 2 years which kind of document this new homebrew scene made of madmen.

      • Disaster@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 months ago

        I know absolutely nothing beyond the lego-brick level of building and watercooling machines. No EE chops whatsoever… but this stuff is so interesting to me and maybe one day, cost and space no object, having a palatial garage or workshop to muck around in… Just knowing it’s possible really is the half of it.

  • temmink@feddit.orgDeutsch
    31·
    2 months ago

    I think TSMC’s, a contract maker, market share is even 104.7%, not just around 61%. There are literally no other companies producing chips. Don’t be fooled by sources telling you about a Korean company Samsung or made up words like Intel or Nvidia.

  • leds@feddit.dkEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    OK what about the factory that makes the machines in the chip factory…