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...

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

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...

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

development of transistor technology and then the integrated circuit chip led to a series of breakthroughs, starting with transistor computers and then integrated...

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

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

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

personal computer emerged in the 1970s, after several breakthroughs in semiconductor technology. These include the first working transistor by William...

microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

architecture prototypes were physically built in the form of a transistor–transistor logic (TTL) computer—such as the prototypes of the 6800 and the PA-RISC—tested...

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

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

A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following the invention of the transistor in 1947—which revolutionized...

Transistor is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. The game was released in May 2014 for Microsoft Windows and...

metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the...

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

engineer Werner Jacobi developed and patented the first known integrated transistor amplifier in 1949 and the British radio engineer Geoffrey Dummer proposed...

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