The History of the

Transistor
Alex Basinger
 The Vacuum
Tube
• The Vacuum tube is a glass
tube that hold electric
currents
• First saw by Thomas Edison,
and called it the “Edison
Effect”
• The Vacuum tube didn’t
reach its full potential until
Lee De Forest, improved on
the idea
• When the filament was
heated it would allow
electrons to flow
 The Transistor
• Is a semiconductor switch
that controls the electric
currents
• John Bardeen and Walter
Brattain first made this
discovery in the AT&T bell
labs in 1947
• The discovery of the
transistor soon won them the
Nobel physics’ prize
• The Transistor is a three wire
plug in that can read high
currents, and low currents
The Central
Processing
Unit
• It carries out instructions by
using basic Arithmetic,
Logical
• The idea of the CPU came
from the basic idea from the
computer
• The first companies to use
the CPU were, Motorola,
Intel, and AMD
Motorola
• Motorola first used the CPU in 1979
• It was called the Motorola 6800
• This CPU had a 16/32-bit
• The Motorola 6800, was the first
successful 32-bit
• The first Motorola 6800 was
fabricated in September 1979
• First founded in September 25 1928
• There boom in was during world war
2, when they made radio for the
Allies
• One of there products was such a
success that the company changed to
“Motorola”
Intel
• Intel was first founded
California in 1968 by Gordon
E. Moore, Robert Noyce
• Intel was well known for its
ability to make
Semiconductors
• The first product that was
made in 1969 had a 64-bit
• By 2000 the demand for
there products had slowed
• By 2006 they mad started to
regain some movement in
there sells of the product
AMD
• AMD was founded on MAY 1 1969,
in Sunnyvale California
• They started as a logic chip making
company, then soon start to make
RAM chips
• At the same time they were trying to
make graphic, Audio cards, and
other goodies
• The company was founded on the
idea of developing computer
processor
• AMD is the second-largest supplier
of microprocessors, just right behind
Intel
Thank you for your time
Sources:
NobelPrize.gov
Wikipedia