Noyce told it with humor that defense imperatives were to print smaller and smaller transistors and then cut them apart, only to reassemble them. He just wanted the connections to be made without the extra step.

Shocking thing may be that 45 years of continual improvements in transistors may have reached its limit. Segue to quantum computing perhaps.
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Will be watching and likely will buy the DVD too :)

The invention of the transistor, which was responsible for modern electronics, was invented on the East Coast, in Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Shockley, Bardeen and Brittain were its co-founders.

Every electronic device has billions of transistors embedded in it to form the embedded computers in all our devices today. Shockley was a maniac which is why his workers left to form Fairchild, INtel and other spinoffs.