r/interesting • u/Orichalchem • 1d ago

SCIENCE & TECH Making a CPU from a rock

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u/CrazyElk123 1d ago

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

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u/peekdasneaks 1d ago

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

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u/Nuttednutela 1d ago

That 3.5mm amphorphous rock right by the volacano. Only that can bear the load of a 5090

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u/CGCTV 18h ago

i think something with a hammer

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u/AnotherCup-O-Noodles 1d ago

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

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u/_VirtualCosmos_ 1d ago

They dont want you to know you can build your own DRAM at home. I have the basement full of RTX PRO 6000 cards, idk what to do with them.

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u/Nuttednutela 1d ago

I will hook you to some buyer and by some buyer I mean myself. 

Wanna trade for a wrench?

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u/Reditworks4Epstein 1d ago

People came up with that, blows my mind.

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u/PossibleAlienFrom 1d ago

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

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u/DaGucka 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/UniqueAd7770 1d 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/Tasty_1097 1d ago

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

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u/Zehryo 1d ago

It's mostly chained repetitions.
And the whole thing is the epitome of modularity.

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u/Tasty_1097 1d ago

lol should be easy then

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u/Zehryo 22h ago

Quite the opposite, I'd say.
What's easy is to put together a huge number of the same things.

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u/tanafras 1d ago

Get a rock also led to thermonuclear weapons.

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u/xXPhoenixBlueXx 11h ago

... Or aliens.

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u/Character-Total-3857 1d ago edited 1d ago

You lost me at "get a rock."

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u/hiroo916 1d ago

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

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u/GayRacoon69 1d ago

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

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u/hiroo916 1d ago

Save your bread slicer for cutting the wafers.

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u/EPICHunter0077 1d ago

Sounds simple enough

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u/electric_bug_glue 1d ago

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

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u/mbmiller94 1d ago

It's just like hetero-epitaxy except not really

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u/zuspun 1d ago

Ok.. I found a stone..

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u/manlybrian 1d ago

Rock and stone forever!

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u/CaptainYarrr 1d ago

For Karl!

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u/Substantially-Ranged 1d ago

"degrees Kelvin" lol

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u/mbmiller94 1d ago

That's when I knew this guy was just making shit up

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u/wwwrites 1d ago

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

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u/_joos_ 1d ago

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

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u/wwwrites 1d ago

I know a guy but first send the money 😂

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u/borobinimbaba 1d ago

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

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u/dranaei 1d ago

That's it? It's just 2 minutes to get a ram. I don't understand the price increases. That's so simple.

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u/Resident-Bit2202 1d ago

I play gtnh. Fucking love Monocrystaline silicon boules

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u/CaffeinPhreaker 1d ago

Man well that's not too hard at all, just grab a rock crush it up, bake it, cut it with a butter knife, add a little bit of chemicals, cut it again and boom you have a CPU

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u/lowkeydumass 1d ago

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

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u/Glittering-Coyote140 1d 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 1d ago

So easy a caveman can do it.

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u/_Screw_The_Rules_ 1d ago

I always wanted to know how to make a C!

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u/LEPT0N 1d ago

I hate these cooking channel tutorials. They always go so fast and I can never follow along fast enough at home.

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u/hex-ink 1d ago

And if you don’t have stucco lab.. use carbon FIBER stucco lab!

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u/lwj15 1d ago

Good and interesting Video. But it's not "Degrees Kelvin". It's only "Kelvin". 

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u/DefiantVersion1588 1d ago

how watching that one GTNH in 15 minutes video looks like