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Introduction to Computers
Circuits and Switches
Digital Information
Microprocessors
The Internet
Technology and Society
Microprocessors
Microprocessors
 
Lesson 1:The Robotic Arm
Lesson 2: Fetch, Decode, and Execute
Lesson 3: The Best Things Come in Small Packages
Lesson 4: How Do They Make Chips So Small?
Lesson 5: Recipe For a Microprocessor
Lesson 6: Building Skyscrapers On a Wafer

The World of Chips
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Enter a World Where Small Is Powerful
Comparison of a Dime to a Microprocessor Your computer uses a microprocessor to do its work. Smaller and thinner than a dime, this tiny silicon chip contains millions of transistors that work together to help you do everything from write a school report to search the Web for the current population of the Svalbard Islands. But what really is a microprocessor? How are they made? And how do they do all the things they do?

Let's shrink ourselves down and explore the world of microprocessors. Click the Lesson 1 link to the left to start.


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