“This is both a key to development and a bottleneck” – Video

When in the spring of 1948 in the research division of AT & T Bell Labs for the first time collected the semiconductor triode was given the name “transistor”, few could imagine that the technological basis of the information world was thereby laid. In the following decades, electronic components only became more complex, reaching the size of several nanometers. How transistors still work as part of chips and microcircuits and why their production turns out to be a problem for individual countries – in the video “Kommersant”.