68 years agoThe Space Age
1959
The MOS Field-Effect Transistor Is Built
Atalla and Kahng at Bell Labs built a working metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor in 1959 and publicly demonstrated it in 1960. MOS fabrication later became the basis of high-density chips.
Art style · 1950s semiconductor laboratory scientific illustration
World population
2.96Bpeople
1/3 of today
Primary energy power
4.5×10¹²W
1/5 of today
London → New York message
0.02 seconds
1 times faster than today
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