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transistor

[tran-zis-ter] / trænˈzɪs tər /
NOUN
personal stereo
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By the 50s it was making tape recorders and transistor radios.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

These problems can reduce carrier mobility and weaken transistor performance.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

“Back then transistor radios were real popular,” David said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

IBM Research unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, featuring a 0.7 nanometer node transistor architecture.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

"For many years, efforts to improve atomically thin transistors have largely focused on discovering better semiconductor materials," said Professor Wen-Hao Chang, the study's corresponding author from NYCU.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

In principle, they could enable transistors that are smaller, faster, and more energy efficient than today's devices.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

IBM is embracing so-called nanostacks to push logic scaling beyond traditional nanosheets—by building upward, rather than parallel, to allow more transistors in a given footprint.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Couples were drinking and whispering on the grass, and the transistors were turned down.

From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte




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