A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first...

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics...

The transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or silicon die). It is the most common measure...

which improved once the more reliable junction transistors became available. The Transistor Computer's design was adopted by the local engineering firm...

A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit. In the common case, the third terminal controls...

junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such...

The speed, power, and versatility of computers have been increasing dramatically ever since then, with transistor counts increasing at a rapid pace (Moore's...

The surface-barrier transistor is a type of transistor developed by Philco in 1953 as an improvement to the alloy-junction transistor and the earlier point-contact...

The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the current through a semiconductor. It comes in two types:...

The RCA 501 was a transistor computer manufactured by RCA beginning in 1958. RCA's pioneering work in transistors in other products provided its engineers...

of transistorized computers, also known as second generation computers. After the company developed the surface barrier transistor, which was much faster...

were used in the Apollo Guidance Computer, whose design began in 1961 and which first flew in 1966. A bipolar transistor switch is the simplest RTL gate...

units. Manchester University Transistor Computer, is generally regarded as the first transistor-based stored-program computer having become operational in...

The TRADIC (for TRAnsistor DIgital Computer or TRansistorized Airborne DIgital Computer) was the first transistorized computer in the USA, completed in...

An insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a three-terminal power semiconductor device primarily forming an electronic switch. It was developed to...

transistorized computers, which were digital computers that used discrete transistors as their primary logic elements. Discrete transistors were a feature...

using discrete transistors. ICs are now used in virtually all electronic equipment and have revolutionized the world of electronics. Computers, mobile phones...

electronic computers, based on vacuum tubes, including the Z3, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, Colossus computer, and ENIAC. The invention of the transistor enabled...

development of transistor technology, followed by the invention of integrated circuit chips, led to revolutionary breakthroughs. Transistor-based computers and,...

prototype transistorized computer using 92 point-contact transistors and 550 diodes in order to test the suitability of transistors in improving the reliability...

Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors. Its name signifies that transistors perform both the logic...

bipolar transistors with the emitter of one transistor connected to the base of the other, such that the current amplified by the first transistor is amplified...

transistorized computer, called the Transistor Computer, a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves. The first stored-program transistor computer...

concurrently. The resulting machine was called CADET (Transistor Electronic Digital Automatic Computer – backward). It first ran a simple test program in...

memory. Modern computer memory is implemented as semiconductor memory, where data is stored within memory cells built from MOS transistors and other components...

first working transistor, the point-contact transistor, in 1947. In 1953, the University of Manchester built the first transistorized computer, the Manchester...

hardware form. Later, computer architecture prototypes were physically built in the form of a transistor–transistor logic (TTL) computer—such as the prototypes...

were almost exclusively used for computer logic circuits and peripheral devices. However, early junction transistors were relatively bulky devices that...

transistors replaced vacuum tubes in computer designs, giving rise to the "second generation" of computers. Compared to vacuum tubes, transistors were...

A fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) is a multigate device, a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) built on a substrate where the...