New transistor breaks speed record

physicistsweb ^ | April 14, 2005 | Belle Dumé

[ProudVet77]

Dittos. Remember measuring the voltage drop (.6volts) across a silicon junction and .2 volts across a geranium juction?
Those were the days, when men were men, and transistors were bipolar!
And FET is nothing more than a bipolar on lithium salts.

[clamper1797]

Think Darlington pair ....

[blam]

"I recently left Intel and am now working for a small start up populated by a bunch of ol building "D" National guys"

I left 'the valley' in 1973 and cashed out of the business at the end of '94. I've been sitting by the bay here in Mobile ever since...

[TXnMA]

We have a winner !!!!

You might say I cheated... '-) I started in Jack Kilby's SRDL (Semiconductor R&D Lab) with TI in 1965 after I left the USAF...l

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Quad NAND
Timer

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Yellowish brown

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Dark blue

[clamper1797]

Dark Blue is the 1982 book

[ProudVet77]

That whole milspec stuff was such a drag on making improvements. One of the reasons our weapons are getting better so fast is the use of commercial hardware and limiting the use of milspec.

[TXnMA]

I'm surprised nobody's asked yet whether that new bipolar xistor is PNP or NPN...

[clamper1797]

I would think you would be using RTL back then (OLD RTL ...not register transfer lanquage)

[clamper1797]

2222's

[Sundog]

You are right. I had mixed up the dual with the single.

[clamper1797]

The 555 manufacturers from your pic

In order ... National ... RCA ... Fairchild ... TI and Mot

[BobS]

"They could also be used for medical imaging, since the radiation is long enough to penetrate skin and image what lies underneath."

Am I missing something here?

The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength.

Unless it's power as in I*R^2 is high enough to give you a permanent hair cut.

[Sundog]

cool.

I had the distinction of working on the IC Layout editor Caeco, used by Moto to layout the 68000 series of chips.

Then I founded the company that bought Ver, the old TI verification package.

[clamper1797]

I worked with the Mot Coldfire series ... designing end user SOC Coldfire core ASICs

[clamper1797]

BTW having worked for both companies ... Mot does build better uprocessors than Intel

[Cyber Ninja]

2N2222A bump.

[Continental Soldier]

Ultra fast communications? Does that mean we will be able to make fools of ourselves even faster than now?