Comment on How are computer chips designed?
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 week ago
After this exercise I’m left wondering how are new chips designed nowadays considering that there are billions and billions of microscopic transistors in a modern chip?
You have to use one, to design one.
False@lemmy.world 6 days ago
And the first ones would have been done using more primitive computers, and those by hand. There’s indeed a whole bootstrapping program here where you need the tech to make the tech. You see this with other tech like compliers where new versions of compilers are compiled using the old versions of the same compilers…