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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (27150)1/27/2026 11:36:12 AM
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No, the first "chip" with metal and semiconductor material was the Transistor led by William Shockley.

TI came along later and put several of them together to make a logic circuit. Fairchild also did a lot of work to advance logic circuits as did some at HP that I worked under and drank beer with back in the day.
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