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Computer chips are used both to design and control the the manufacturing of other chips, it is practically possible to design machines that produce themselves, and even do so with "random" changes. Such machines could include a clock part.

The analogy succeeds again!

To my knowledge, no computer chip has ever been observed producing more of its own kind spontaneously. Biological organisms do so all the time, and we observe their evolution directly all the time (without the direct intervention of a "Designer"). Sorry, the analogy still doesn't work. Clocks and microchips don't have babies.

You are aware that our view of reality is limited. For example some versions of string theory postulate seven more dimensions wound up so tightly they are imperceptable to us. The CPU is somewhat imperceptable to the code that runs on it, and the programmer is totally obscured to any ideation that the running program might attempt of him or her.

Just how spontnaeous is that reproduction again? And even, just how "spontaneous" is the very moment of time space and existance we are in?

Just as the running program is unable to directly sense the programmer, in our animalistic mind we are (almost totally) unable to sense our Creaor and Maintainer.

Evolve!