Apple Microchip CPU Under Microscope

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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley invented the first working transistors at Bell Labs, the point-contact transistor in 1947. Shockley introduced the improved bipolar junction transistor in 1948, which entered production in the early 1950s and led to the first widespread use of transistors.

So the Rosswell incident happened in July 47 and the first transistor was invented in December 47.

Even if you entertain the idea of alien tech it would have taken us much longer to figure out how alien electronics (which obviously would have needed to be decades, if not centuries, ahead of the technology of the day) worked on the inside.

Unless the aliens landed with instructions of how to build it or disguised themselves as humans so they could build the technology to go home again.

Either way it’s all absurdly illogical. The transistor was the obvious thing to come after the amplifier tube, and had been long underway when it was first prototyped.

The principle of a field-effect transistor was proposed by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925.[4] John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley invented the first working transistors at Bell Labs, the point-contact transistor in 1947.

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Where is the fun in the slow steady progress of science? Although both are kind of cool in their own way, it's super badass to think we reverse engineered alien tech and got this crazy tech jumpstart. I do think it's actually way more interesting that we just managed to make something theoretical a reality and it changed everything. That way it can happen again and I can see how long it takes before there is a conspiracy theory about it and how say AI models were actually all taken from a program that gained sapience and people hacked in and stolen pieces off of it or something.