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• n  a semiconductor device capable of amplification

• No postwar industry has grown faster than electronics, and no electronic devices have paid off more handsomely than semiconductorsthe tiny, spiderlike transistors, diodes .
• As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch it on .
• The transistor was born just before Christmas 1947 when John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two scientists working for William Shockley at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill .

• junction transistor
• electronic transistor

News & Articles

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• The Best Game Trailers of E3 2013
  While we clear our heads following last week’s salvo of PlayStation news and announcements ($399!), today we’re bubbling up some of our favorite new game trailers from E3 2013 . For my money? Nothing’s topping the weird, wistful, and wonderful new trailer for Hohokum, though Transistor, Tearaway, and Octodad all make strong arguments.
  June 18, 2013 - PlayStation Blog
• Optical Circuits: Single Photon Flips Transistor Switch
  Transistors, the tiny switches that flip on and off inside computer chips, have long been the domain of electricity. But scientists are beginning to develop chip components that run on light. Last week, in a remarkable achievement, a team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge reported building a transistor that is switched by a single photon. [More]
  June 13, 2013 - Scientific American
• Supergiant: Transistor PS4 deal doesn't influence port timing
  Supergiant's relationship with Sony and the deal to bring Transistor to PS4 doesn't limit when or prohibit how the studio pursues ports. "Just the fact that we're shipping simultaneously on PC, I think, gives you some sense. They've been very accommodating," Supergiant's Greg Kasavin said of Sony during an E3 appointment. "After our initial launch, nothing is ruled out. It's our game and our IP ...
  June 12, 2013 - Joystiq

Quotes

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• Gordon Moore in Forbes
  I think (the transistor) is going to be around for a long time,Moore said. "There have been ideas about how people are going to replace it, and it's always dangerous to predict something won't happen, but I don't see anything coming along...
• Steve Wozniak in CNET News
  Steve Wozniak said it best in his exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph earlier this week: "The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one," he said. "Things like, that if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they...
• President Bush in Javno.hr
  The magic of 45nm and our new transistor design allows us to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient processors to our customers across the entire spectrum of market segments, from the most powerful servers to a variety of mobile devices and... Paul Otellini http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otellini&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH4im-514zQGdqz4zbGQxvivVStoQ CRN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.crn.com/hardware/202602213&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGy8kDKwmEclagXzwBgm21RQeGDYw Oct 26, 2007 101523 134690 transition I believe that the change from Fidel Castro ought to begin a period of democratic transition," said Bush. "Eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections. And I mean free, and I mean fair -- not these kinds of staged...