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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

higher density than bipolar junction transistors, the MOSFET became the most common type of transistor in computers, electronics, and communications technology...

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

A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Previous portable radios used vacuum tubes, which were bulky...