Transistor celebrates its 60th birthday - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 17th Dec 2007, 12:00

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/12...0th_birthday/1

Yesterday saw the transistor celebrate its 60th birthday. It's regarded as one of those inventions that truly revolutionised the world and things have come a long way since its inception.

BioSniper · 17th Dec 2007, 12:09

Happy birthday transistor, I shall have a pint in thy honour.

Long live the transistor, woot and all that.

HellRazor · 17th Dec 2007, 16:03

*Salutes transistor*

Thank you mr. Transistor, without you my job would suck-literally! (designing chips with vacuum tube...YUCK!)

Kipman725 · 17th Dec 2007, 19:40

erm it's not the 60th birthday of the transistor.. they have been around since the 1940's at least as very expensive unreliable devices. I think this 60th aniversiry may be the 60th aniversiry of a transistor design that worked better?

DXR_13KE · 17th Dec 2007, 20:18

anyway happy birthday.....

wuyanxu · 17th Dec 2007, 20:49

it's amazing that we are still using the Transistor..... i really hope they can come up with some new technology, since soon, when we reach 32nm, it'd be near impossible to go any smaller, faster.

anyway, happy birthday.

in reply to your article's last comment: i did, in fact, used a few of those old Bipolar transistors to make an amplifier based on Long Tail Pair, and soon, the burnt down building will be rebuilt, where every undergraduate's chip projects can resume using the clean room
(cookie for whoever can guess which university had their clean room burnt down 2 years ago)

Brooxy · 18th Dec 2007, 06:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by wuyanxu

(cookie for whoever can guess which university had their clean room burnt down 2 years ago)

Southampton Uni.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/4390048.stm

Remembered one of my mates from soton telling me about it. Dang my memory is good....

And in other news...

Happ B'day transistor. Looks like I have my excuse to have a pint tonight. Without transistors, i'd be extremely bored.

wuyanxu · 18th Dec 2007, 12:40

great memory, cookie!

Quote:

A spokesman said some of the world's most advanced research was carried out there and its loss was devastating.

yeah right, i was using a 10% effecient solar cell made by the clean room before it's burnt down...... Stanford are producing 30% and best was 40% efficient solar cells.

kosch · 18th Dec 2007, 17:04

Its about time they reverse engineered some more alien technology!

The_Beast · 18th Dec 2007, 22:48

Happy Birthday

17th Dec 2007, 12:00	#1
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