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Fixing cars is of course learnable; we all know that mechanics exist. But computing hardware is usually built by really complicated machines. I honestly don't know whether it's possible for a person to make a CPU.


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Click on Nana2Tetris in the link above. You'll find out a good bit about it. Modern CPUs are enormously complicated. Machines from earlier eras tend to only be of only middling complexity.

Now more than ever because you can define it code. Here is a CPU written in 200 lines of Verilog.

https://excamera.com/files/j1.pdf


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