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TIL: The Crack That Helped Discover Doping
A "junk" piece of silicon at Bell Labs led to the p-n junction, the transistor, and the trick this newsletter is named after
Aug 15
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TIL: Shockley - The man who flunked the test for gifted children
And only went to school after the age of eight.
Aug 8
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TIL: The Story of Jerry Sanders
Forget Boring Corporate Dramas: The Case for a Jerry Sanders Biopic
Aug 1
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TIL: He Invented the Transistor. Then He Died Waiting for Everyone to Notice.
Julius Lilienfeld, copper sulfide, and the 1925 patent that still worked when someone finally built it in 1995
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TIL: Bob Proved It Was Impossible. Two Months Later He Shipped It.
Bob Widlar, a sheep, and the small accounting insight sitting inside every analog chip you own
Jul 11
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TIL: Qualcomm Bet the Company on Trucks Before It Bet on Your Phone
How a satellite tracker for eighteen-wheelers funded a wireless idea everyone else called impossible, and why the company may be running the same play…
Jul 4
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TIL: About the Purple Plague in Semiconductors
Some of the integrated circuits being built to fly to the moon were quietly dying inside their own packages, and the failure had a color.
Jun 27
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TIL: The Calculator Wars And the Revenge That Took a Decade
The Playbook That Keeps Coming Back
Jun 13
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TIL: The Man Who Invented the Future, Then Starved to Death in It
The story of Oleg Losev, LEDs, and a lost manuscript describing a new three-electrode semiconductor device
Jun 6
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TIL: Things once found in a now-flooded Swedish ditch are hiding inside your electronics
Some of them now do quiet, very specific jobs inside semiconductors.
May 30
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TIL: The Microwave Was a Radar Accident
It's inventor never finished grammar school and got $2 for it
May 23
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