Newly-christened Texas Instruments, the company becomes the first to produce silicon transistors for the mass market and designs the world’s first transistor radio. Later this decade, Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit, enabling the digital revolution and forever changing the world.
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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