transistor

What saved him was music: the sound of the Beatles singing She Loves You out of a crackly transistor radio transformed his life.

"The transistors are not going to work. So all of this is cleaner than hospital operating rooms."

After failing an aptitude test with tech company IBM as a young man in Hackney, east London, he started selling car aerials from a van, and later transistor radios.

“Once you start looking at that question,” she said, “it gets you to a whole host of things, including the electronics industry and micro-electronics and transistors. So I kind of came to tech through politics.”

Their famous wafer fabrication company, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, runs more advanced wafer fabs at smaller transistor sizes than Intel and other chip giants.