NEC Electronics
The History of Semiconductors
1960 to1964 Next
early ICs
1962 Developed planar-type silicon transistors
Developed planar-type silicon transistors

 
1960 Started researching practical applications for NEC's first integrated circuit (IC)
1962 Trial production of early ICs
1962 Developed planar-type silicon transistors

Major Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth in a manned satellite, Vostok 1
1961 Major Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth in a manned satellite, Vostok 1
1963 Home video recorder invented
1964 BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz
Products of the time
Transistor radios 1962 Transistor radios
From vacuum tubes to transistors
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