How a Semiconductor formed the basis of modern-age Computing

Semiconductors are substances that exhibit both electrical conductivity and electrical non-conductivity.

How useful is a Semiconductor?

They are mostly deployed in computers among other electronic appliances.

They are an important component of electronic devices owing to their ability to control and manage the flow of an electric current.

Semiconductors can be compounds like gallium arsenide, or pure elements like silicon or germanium.

Semiconductors, also referred as Micro Chips or Integrated Circuits, are tiny fragments of Silicon and related raw materials altered through doping so that they can sometimes conduct electricity and sometimes not.

Doping entails the addition of small amounts of impurities to the pure substances with the aim of causing changes in their electric conductivity.

Micro Chips use a binary language that only recognizes 0s and 1s thus allowing them to be used as electric switches.

Semiconductors are used in the manufacture of various electronic devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits.

Imagine how life would be boring without electronic devices such a tvs, radios and smartphones.

Therefore, semiconductors are a very important aspect of human life in relation to technology.

According to DigWatch, categories of semiconductors include: Memory chips, Microprocessors, Graphic processing units (GPUs), Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and Systems-on-a-chip (SoCs).

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