By Andy Gordon Our pocket computers – you know them as smartphones – are small, fast and powerful thanks to the billions of bits and transistors packed into the chips they use.
Bits make up a computer’s memory and are the smallest building blocks of traditional computing. They can have one of two values, usually represented as either a 0 or a 1. Your phone has about 256 billion bits (or 32 gigabytes).
Transistors act as switches. Think of them as a roadway with a gate. A binary signal of 1 will tell the gate to allow the cars to flow down the roadway. A …read more
