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What Is a Transistor?

Bob noise is credited with inventing the integrated circuit and semi conductors. Silicin, as an element, is a semi conductor. It has some properties that make it like a metal aconductor. And lots of things are semi conductors - from sand to germanium. The i c was invented by Gordon moore who also co-invented transistors.

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