A company which had been producing sub-miniature vacuum tubes for the hearing aid market immediately saw the threat the transistor posed to its business. It started producing point contact transistors in 1951 and then switched to junction transistors. By 1952 it was producing more transistors than any other company in the world. In 1953 it …
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