A homemade microprocessor, 'Designing Silicon From Scratch', carries Breaking Taps
No new uploads went out, and the 17-day-old chip video has passed 449,000 views.
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Designing Silicon From Scratch
"Designing Silicon From Scratch" is exactly what it sounds like: the maker behind Breaking Taps designed his own microprocessor, and the description promises he wants to tell viewers all about it. It went up seventeen days ago, and it is still the video bringing in the most people every day, close to twice the pace of anything else in the catalog.
That makes sense for this channel. Its about page reads like an equipment list for a small materials lab, from a metallurgical microscope to an atomic force microscope and a scanning electron microscope, and a chip of his own is the natural next step for someone who owns that kit.
Nothing new went up this week, so the older shelf kept the lights on. "Cutting mirrors with Diamonds," now more than two years old and past 2.3 million views, still draws a steady crowd, and "Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology" keeps turning up too. Its chapter list runs from Structure and Assembly to Pain, Existential Crisis and, finally, Salvation with a question mark, a fair summary of chasing a single micrometer in a home workshop. Seen beside the new chip, that lithography video reads a bit like the first chapter of the same project.
Views ran a little under the channel's usual daily pace, with no change in the subscriber count. Among science and experiment channels of similar size, the big weeks belonged to Just Have a Think and Looking Glass Universe, both well above their usual pace, while Simon Clark moved at almost the same gentle rhythm as Breaking Taps.
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The videos drawing views on Breaking Taps right now
- Channel
- Breaking Taps
- Subscribers
- 580,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 335,903
- Videos published this week
- 0
The numbers
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Which company released the Intel 4004, often called the first commercial microprocessor, in 1971?
Intel released the 4004 in 1971, and it is widely regarded as the first commercially available single-chip microprocessor.
