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From tiny switches to AI on The Engineering Mindset

The channel's CPU explainer connects binary arithmetic, processor memory and the parallel architecture of GPUs.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

How a CPU Turns 1s and 0s Into Everything You See

A processor's billions of transistors can sound impossibly abstract. "How a CPU Turns 1s and 0s Into Everything You See" starts smaller, building from individual MOSFETs to logic gates, addition and the machinery that executes software.

The Engineering Mindset posted nothing new this week, but that recent lesson is its busiest video right now, drawing roughly 16,000 views a day. Its description lays out a route through registers and cache before widening to multicore processors, RAM and storage. The final stretch tackles the CPU-GPU distinction and why parallel processing suits graphics and AI. It's a substantial journey from a microscopic switch to a computer doing useful work.

The older lessons provide a complementary route in. "How Electricity Works - for visual learners" explores what actually happens inside wires, including the difference between conventional current and electron movement. It has accumulated about 4.4 million views and is drawing daily attention at almost the same level as "MOSFET vs Transistor vs Relay: Most People Get This Wrong." That component guide brings the subject back to practical circuits: switching, amplification, motor control and LED dimming.

Among neighboring science channels, The Engineering Mindset shares its subscriber size with Action Lab Shorts, while Practical Engineering has a somewhat larger audience. For viewers catching up here, the useful connection is within the library itself: the CPU lesson uses MOSFETs as its starting point, and the older component tutorial offers a closer look at how those switches work.

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The videos drawing views on The Engineering Mindset right now

How Electricity Works - for visual learners4,445,221 views

MOSFET vs Transistor vs Relay: Most People Get This Wrong706,278 views

The facts

Channel: The Engineering Mindset
Subscribers: 4,480,000
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is a look at the channel's subscriber audience and the videos drawing attention.

subscribers

4,480,000

total views

349,333,483

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

TheDadLab

5,130,000

Real Engineering

5,120,000

Practical Engineering

4,840,000

Stuff Made Here

4,760,000

The Engineering Mindset

4,480,000

4,480,000

3,620,000

3,610,000

3,550,000

As of October 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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