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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

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How Does the Computer Work?

Jeffrey Toobin: How does the computer work, Jeff? Well, I won't go into everything that makes a computer work. But let's talk about the basic building blocks, a transistor. And even more basic than that, a semiconductor material,. silicon is a semiconductor. At low temperature, there are no free charges, no free electrons that can move around. So when you talk about electricity, you're talking about predominantly electrons moving to establish electrical currents.

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