Transitron Electronic Corporation was a semiconductor device fabrication company of the United States. It was founded by Leo and David Bakalar incorporated in Wakefield, Massachusetts , in 1952. David Bakalar was the president from 1952 to 1984. In 1986 the company went out of business, failing to keep pace with the rapid advances in technology.
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9-755: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles David Bakalar The company was established at the time of the economic boom in Massachusetts . Its first successful product was the gold bonded germanium diode , widely used in computers, military equipment, etc. After that the company manufactured silicon rectifiers (which David claims were the world's first ones), grown junction silicon NPN transistors , silicon diodes, germanium diodes, silicon/germanium micro-diodes, silicon references, silicon regulators, silicon controlled rectifiers, bilateral switching diodes, etc. At its heyday Transitron employed 1,600 people. In 1959 Time Magazine reported it
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