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•• Global Market: ~ $US222 Billion/year (2000) • Semiconductor fab equipment ~ $US45 Billion/year

Transistor Inventors • Bardeen, Brattain and Schockley at Bell Labs 1947 First Transistor (bipolar point contact)

• First planer transistor Jean Hoerni at Fairchild 1959