yeah low level is relative. Assembly would be the place to manipulate hardware, but then developer need to have knowledge of the chip design, etc. Depending on

yeah low level is relative. Assembly would be the place to manipulate hardware, but then developer need to have knowledge of the chip design, etc. Depending on what you want to do. One can also go a level lower with machine code, or physics as how some quantum computers are coming on the scene now days.