Name: The Transistor: The device that taught matter to compute - and remade the world around it
Author: Ketineni Ramarao

Cover of The Transistor: The device that taught matter to compute - and remade the world around it, a book by Ketineni Ramarao - Industries of India

The transistor is the most numerous manufactured object in human history, and the device the electronic age stands on. This book follows it from Bell Labs to the integrated circuit, the foundry idea and the trillion-dollar industry of today: the business cycles, the chip war, the supply web and the physics wall ahead.

109 pages · Published November 2026 · Free to read as a PDF

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The Transistor - the book (PDF) 109 pages · 0.5 MB The Transistor - source companion (PDF) 20 pages · 2.8 MB

Every reference number in the book resolves in the source companion: what each source is, how fully it was read, and its limits.

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