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Inside the machine on your desk

10 videos, 3 h 59

10 videos that open a computer down to the transistor and put it back together. Animated teardowns, not block diagrams.

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How does Computer Hardware Work? 💻🛠🔬 [3D Animated Teardown]
Branch Education
An animated teardown of a whole computer, part by part. Watch this first.
02
The Engineering that Runs the Digital World 🛠️⚙️💻 How do CPUs Work?
Branch Education
What a processor does with an instruction, drawn at gate level.
03
How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps
Branch Education
Photolithography and the rest of the fab process, step by step.
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How do Smartphone CPUs Work? || Inside the System on a Chip
Branch Education
Why the chip in a phone is a whole system, not just a processor.
05
How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture
Branch Education
What makes a graphics card different from a processor, and why it wins at some jobs.
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How does Computer Cache, Memory, and Storage Work? 🖥️💿🛠️
Branch Education
The memory hierarchy, and why speed and size pull against each other.
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How do SSDs Work? | How does your Smartphone store data? | Insanely Complex Nanoscopic Structures!
Branch Education
How a chip holds data with no moving parts once the power is off.
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How Does a Transistor Work?
Veritasium
The switch everything else is built from, explained with the physics.
09
Transistors Explained - How transistors work
The Engineering Mindset
A second, more practical pass on transistors if you plan to build circuits.
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Building a CPU from Scratch with Ben Eater
Scott Hanselman
Someone builds a working processor out of loose chips on a breadboard.