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Last updated: 02/28/11 at 11:17 AM

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• First Production MOS IC's
  1964

  1964 - First Commercial MOS IC Introduced
  http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1964-Commecial.html

• First Working FET Demonstrated
  1960

  1960 - Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Transistor Demonstrated
  http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1960-MOS.html

• First Bipolar Transistor Demonstrated
  1947

  John Bardeen & Walter Brattain achieve transistor action in a germanium point-contact device in December 1947
  http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1947-invention.html

• First FET Patent Filed
  1926

  Julius E. Lilienfeld files the first patent showing the theory of the FET
  http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1926-field.html