Can you make a homemade CPU?

Yes. Create a design at home, probably using logic design tools, then you have a variety of options to put it together. Buy individual transistors and piece it together. It’s going to be incredibly slow and crude compared to any commercial product made in the past several decades, but it’ll be a CPU.

How many transistors are in an i9?

The last DEC Alpha chip made has 90\% of it for cache. While Intel’s i960CA small cache of 1 KB, at about 50,000 transistors, isn’t a big part of the chip, it alone would have been very large in early microprocessors.

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How hard is it to create a CPU?

It is completely intractable. CPU verification is extremely difficult.” “One company found is that it’s far better to build state machines in a processor using a little bit of software than to create state machines in Verilog,” says Simon Davidmann, CEO of Imperas Software.

Is there such a thing as a paper transistor CPU?

Paper transistors or not, a discrete transistor CPU can be made to be a reasonable size. On 15 November 2006, the 35th anniversary of the 4004, Intel celebrated by releasing the chip’s schematics, mask works, and user manual. [39]

Is it possible to make a large transistors?

Some people say that such a design would be huge, and thus impossible to carry electricity around without fatal losses. It seems, according to the illustrations in the scientific paper, that the transistors could be made about 1cm2 in size (maybe less if printed with a really high resolution printer).

What is the logic used to build gates in a transistor?

Zinc Oxide only allows n-channel, enhancement type FET, which means the logic used for building gates would be NMOS (with somewhat big mega-omhs pullup resistors). That’s highly hypothetical, and I’m definitely not an expert in transistors.

How do you print on transistors?

I could print transistors (about 1cm2) on sheets, rolled up for each component (or a bunch of them), then clipped together using copper wire with tips bent in a paperclip shape. Given a box of about 1 cubic meter, it would look like a bunch of scrolls clipped together.