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American researchers had discovered that silicon transistors, the building blocks of computers, could also generate electricity when hit by sunlight.
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Apple is also designing its own thin-film transistors and screen drivers, key components in display assemblies.
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Apple is also designing its own thin-film transistors and screen drivers, key components in display assemblies.
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Apple is also designing its own thin-film transistors and screen drivers, key components in display assemblies.
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There's a cheap feel to everything — the seats, the dashboard, the shifter that has three settings (drive, reverse and neutral), the stereo that sounds like a transistor radio and even an ice scraper that broke off in my hand.
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Sometimes, Weymouth even creates a narrative, as in Eleven O’Clock News (1966), in which a man pauses while chopping wood to listen to some news on the transistor radio.
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But that dependability is the result of 60 years of continuous improvement of solid-state silicon transistors.
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The smaller scale allows more transistors to be packed into the same space, speeding up performance and likely saving energy.
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Origin and Etymology of transistor
First Known Use: 1948
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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: a small device that is used to control the flow of electricity in radios, computers, etc.
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