Well modern CPU design requires quite a lot of physics I think
A lot of physics and chemistry, I'd say at least as far back as the early 80s. Using lasers to cut silicon at the nanometer scale is real magic
You could probably make a highly mechanical computer that does almost anything any other computer does (like run Linux) if you were super clever, but it would be huge and incredibly slow. At least you wouldn't have to know too much about electrons though I guess.
Well modern CPU design requires quite a lot of physics I think
A lot of physics and chemistry, I'd say at least as far back as the early 80s. Using lasers to cut silicon at the nanometer scale is real magic
You could probably make a highly mechanical computer that does almost anything any other computer does (like run Linux) if you were super clever, but it would be huge and incredibly slow. At least you wouldn't have to know too much about electrons though I guess.