ge first transistors

[dwight]

Just a handful of current day uP use more CMOS transistors than all the junction transistors produced by any one factory per year.
Dwight

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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:08 AM
To: dwight via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: ge first transistors

On 11/14/19 10:26 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> My point was that lumping them all together is like lumping propeller plane, jet planes and rockets as all the same. They all use the principles of throwing mass in the opposite direction of desired motion. They are still quite different when you look just a little closer.
> I have a clever way of using two junction FETs, N and P types, to make a nice negative resistance device. Without much extra things, it can make a nice low power FM jammer. I never did look to see how high a frequency it would go. No need to buy an expensive tunnel diode.
> Dwight

So, Shockley et al. didn't invent the IGBT either.

JFETs are enormously useful as constant-current devices as well as small
signal switches.

I've got a bunch of tunnel diodes; never found a practical use for them
for me.

--Chuck