Computer chips are made up of transistors, wires, wafers, and so on. Because the transistor is the basic component of the chip, the electrical signal is processed and stored by controlling the switch of the transistor.
Wiring is the process of connecting transistors together to form a specific circuit.
A wafer is made of multiple transistors on the same piece of silicon, thereby improving storage and processing power. In addition, the chip also includes a variety of metal wires, multi-layer interconnect structure and other complex structures, through the combination and layout of these components, to achieve the complex design of the computer chip.
Computer chips are mainly composed of silicon, the component of wafers.
Silicon is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust after oxygen. If carbon is the basis of all organic life, silicon has the same place for the Earth's crust, which is mostly made up of silicon-containing rock layers. These rocks are composed almost entirely of silica and various silicates.