PBS7y
The First Silicon Transistor
They were the first company to produce silicon transistors -- and consequently the first company to produce a truly consistent mass-produced transistor. Scientists knew about the problems with ...
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1st-of-its-kind cryogenic transistor is 1,000 times more efficient and could lead to much more powerful quantum computers
A new type of transistor can dissipate almost zero heat — slashing energy usage in future quantum computers by up to 1,000 times and paving the way for massively scaled-up machines. The ...
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Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
Peking University has published its findings on a wafer-scale 2D GAAFET in Nature, pointing a new path into the Angstrom era ...
PBS7y
Recreating the First Transistor
The scientists Aylesworth talked to suggested there were probably additional impurities in the tin to make that first transistor work. So instead of the tin-doped germanium, Aylesworth used a ...
Hackaday8y
Retrotechtacular: Old Transistors
According to a recent IEEE article, a transistor cost about $8 in today’s money back in the 1960’s. Consider the Regency TR-1, the first transistor radio from TI and IDEA. In late 1954 ...
Hackaday6mon
How Sony Mastered The Transistor
The TR-55 wasn’t the first Sony radio to have transistors. The TR-52 was a prototype, but it had case problems and never made it into the hands of the public. The radio didn’t make it to the ...
Nanowerk2y
Transistors explained – what they are and what they do
On December 16, 1947, they demonstrated the first working transistor, now known as the point-contact transistor (a feat for which they were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics). The first ...
BBC3y
First Commercial Transistor
The Transistor is an invention that has literally changed the world as we know it. Without it many of the modern devices would not exist today. All computer processing chips contain 1000's of ...
PC Magazine5y
bipolar transistor
the other is "field-effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistor was bipolar and the first silicon chips used bipolar transistors, most chips today use field-effect transistors wired as ...
TechSpot1mon
What was the first all-transistor television ever released?
about six years after Texas Instruments and Regency introduced the first transistor radio. Unlike traditional vacuum-tube televisions, which were bulky, fragile, and power-hungry, the TV8-301 was ...