Impact on transistor on society

Answer 1

- Integrated circuit: consists of thousands of transistors on a single silicon chip à arranged in certain patterns can perform different functions, from timers on microwave ovens, to arithmetic and logic processors in databases.

- Microprocessors: consist of millions of transistors à used in computers, making them even smaller and more reliable à computers are used in several electronic devices, including the PC, mobile phones, digital cameras, calculators, etc.

- Impacts:

- The miniaturisation of several electronic devices à allows faster transfer, storage and processing of information à eg. communication satellites, which link different countries of the world together through telephones and television à telecommunications

- Other areas of society developing due to transistors include education, business, travel, shopping, entertainment, commerce, industrial design, medical diagnostics and treatment, etc.à rely on equipment and devices, in particular the computer, which contains circuits, in which the transistor plays a major role

- Many tasks formerly done manually, now done electronically by a small electronic device à e.g. monotonous jobs in factories now done by machinery and robots à increase in company productivity

- Increased capacity to handle information à influenced health system - more efficient - illnesses detected more easily