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Science Coordinator,
Bendigo Senior Secondary
College
carpenter.bruce@bssc.edu.au
The transistor
turns 60!
Invented at Bell labs USA December 1947.
About the size of a modern mobile phone.
We can now fit 2 million transistors on a full stop. .
Timeline:
1947 Transistor invented.
1948 Shockley develops first semiconductor transistor
1954 Texas Instruments introduces transistor radio.
1965 Intel co-founder Gordon Moore coins Moore’s
Law.
1981 IBM launches the PC
2007 Intel demonstrates chip with 1.9 billion
transistors.