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Is anyone surprised?
On Jun 18, 10:32*pm, CaveLamb wrote:
Quote above: * TI had already spent millions developing machinery and techniques for * working with silicon, The money for a lot of THAT research is what the guys are talking about. -- Richard Lambhttp://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelambhttp://www.home.earthlink.net/~sv_temptress But then they are wrong. Texas Instruments was primarily a company that made equipment for finding oil. When the transistor was invented at AT&T, Texas Instruments realized that while the transistors were very limited in power and frequency, they were a lot better than the vacuum tubes TI was using in seismograph equipment. And they went into the transistor business. At this time there was not a lot of money from the military because it was just after WWII. The sorts of things that paid for research were things like the transistor radio. And as transistors improved they could be used in more things. So money was spent in researching how to improve transistors. Not much government money was spent in " developing machinery and techniques for working with silicon ". Dan |
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