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December 16, 2007
Happy Birthday to the Transistor
A dear friend sent this along. It is from the latest edition of The Final Report.
The first working transistor was created 60 years ago on December 16, 1947, at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. The three inventors, William Schockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for their invention. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, this year the chip industry will produce 900 million transistors for every man, woman and child on earth. That's about 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6 quintillion) transistors.
I likely have more than my share of those transistors. And so do you.
The Final Report is a weekly newsletter, published by Ikonix Corporation, addressed to the semiconductor test community. To get the complete report one needs to be a subscriber to The Final Report.
Only the test community would find nothing wrong with having a final report every week!
Posted by Duane Smith at December 16, 2007 11:44 AM | Read more on Odds and Ends |
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