# How a Computer Works - from silicon to apps

A whistle-stop tour of how computers work, from how silicon is used to make computer chips, perform arithmetic to how programs run and computer graphics are displayed.

Contents: 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - Transistors 08:05 - Logic gates 11:34 - Binary numbers 16:55 - Memory and clock 24:56 - Instructions 29:30 - Loops 33:55 - Input and output

41:28 - Conclusion

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 2021
- Runtime: 42 min
- By: Improbable Matter
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_a_Computer_Works_-_from_silicon_to_apps.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Improbable Matter
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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