The germanium transistor ... Pocketronic calculator released in 1971 was based on the a TI project codenamed Cal Tech that Kilby had worked on in the 1960s. Integrated circuits had taken ...

In 1954, Texas Instruments was the first company to start commercial production of silicon transistors ... calculator, invented at Texas Instruments in 1967, was an integrated semiconductor ...

Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at high temperatures. Silicon ... of an electrical circuit -- the transistor ...

From inventing the first practical silicon transistor ... circuit—and how Fairchild still beat them TI’s top-secret “Project Cal Tech” and the launch of the handheld calculator revolution ...

It suddenly occurred to him that all parts of a circuit, not just the transistor, could be made out of silicon. At the time, nobody was making capacitors or resistors out of semiconductors.