BusinessMicrochips: The Transistor Was the First StepFacebookXLinkedInEmailLinkGiftExpandBardeen, Shockley, and Brattain in 1950Photograph by Yale Joel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesFacebookXLinkedInEmailLinkGiftGift this articleContact us:Provide news feedback or report an errorConfidential tip?Send a tip to our reportersSite feedback:Take our SurveyNew WindowFacebookXLinkedInEmailLinkGiftBy Walter IsaacsonDecember 4, 2014 at 12:58 PM UTCBookmarkSaveLock This article is for subscribers only.This article is part of the December 8, 2014 issue of businessweek.Chevron RightExpand 1947 Researchers at Bell Labs invent the transistor, the critical first step toward development of the microchip.
