Gordon Moore, RIP
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3 min readMar 25, 2023
When I started my career, I saw the future. It was a simple little plastic device with three legs. Inside was a piece of silicon that could be arranged as NPN or PNP. My first steps in higher education involved the study of these amazing — if not magical — little devices.
The transistor has a collector, a base, and an emitter. Current flow from the collector to the base, but where it could be controlled by the current flow from…
