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Computer hardware is the physical substrate that stores, transforms, moves, and presents digital information.
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Digital hardware represents state with physical quantities such as voltage levels and uses transistors to construct logic gates, storage elements, arithmetic units, control circuits, and communication links.
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Hardware behavior is observable through instruction execution, memory timing, device enumeration, performance counters, electrical measurements, and conformance to published architectures.