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Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016) by causi on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:47AM (#28592724)
I believe the you have a different definition of "invented" than the author and myself.
Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016) by causi on Monday September 20, 2021 @09:56AM (#28593810)
Those sources appear to exclude Lilienfeld. He didn't create a good or tool. He didn't create a material. He didn't create a manufacturing process or a control procedure or a method of measurement.

Lilienfeld was a brilliant man but he didn't invent transistors any more than Albert Einstein invented gravitational wave detectors.

Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016) by Rochus on Monday September 20, 2021 @10:19AM (#28594060)
The patent doesn't mention the term "transistor"; but obviously the patent office came to the conclusion that it is a patentable invention, and the cited by list confirms that it is considered a relevant invention by Bell Labs and other notable institutions. Prior art by Lilienfeld did even stop some applications of Bell Labs from going forward. The transistor invented in 1947 was a point-contact transistor, which is not the concept applied in micro processors as the article confirms.