Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I think you'll find that pure silicon is an *insulator* [which is why 
> the substrate of a silicon chip is made of pure silicon], and it only 
> becomes partially or fully conductive once you dope it...

I don't think so. Otherwise you wouldn't need the "O" in CMOS.

It certainly becomes *more* conductive after you dope it, but the point 
of doping it is to put N-doped and P-doped silicon bits next to each other.

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