Intel will build the parts on its 14 nm tri-gate transistor technology.

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He shared a Nobel Prize with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and later went on to refine transistor technology, spawning the modern age of semiconductors and of Silicon Valley.

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Rather, it's a reflective display that uses a PNLC (Polymer Networked Liquid Crystal) module for improved brightness, and HR-TFT (high-reflective thin film transistor) technology to add contrast.

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The discovery of quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity, vital to much of modern technology and economic activity, including the transistor, the laser and the atomic bomb.

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The two companies are at the forefront of this technology which is tipped to replace TFT (thin film transistor) LCDs because OELDs can be made thinner and use less power while delivering a picture that is as good if not better as a TFT.

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In one of those perfect cultural marriages of pop and technology, the 1950s brought us both Elvis Presley and the Sony TR-63, the first transistor radio cheap enough to fit the budgets of teenagers.

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Our romance with computer technology, or as I call it, silicon-based life forms, began in 1947 with the transistor.

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Since unveiling its technology, Transphorm has showed off some products at conferences, including a diode and a 600-volt transistor, and demonstrated how these components can more efficiently boost power output.

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