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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

The findings also point to a broader change in the way semiconductor researchers think about transistor design.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Big Blue’s research division announced Thursday that it had produced the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, featuring a transistor architecture at the 0.7 nanometer node.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

He hadn’t checked the weather and felt vaguely unsettled about that because the Frog didn’t have any radio gear except a cheap little transistor battery-powered receiver that hardly ever worked right.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

More importantly, the devices demonstrated a combination that has been difficult to achieve in atomically thin transistors: very thin dielectric scaling, strong electrostatic control, and sustained carrier transport.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

For decades, much of the effort to improve transistors has centered on discovering better semiconductor materials or making devices smaller.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

The cutting-edge 3-nanometer process can fit 250 million to 300 million transistors in one square millimeter of silicon.

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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