Depends on the radio. Early Transistor radios started with just one and it was to replace the valve which was in turn used for signal amplification.
Today, a sophiticated radio may have several chips inside them that can contain millions of transistors each. There is no absolute definitive answer to this question.
One form of hybrid radio, appearing in the late 1950s, used valves (vacuum tubes) and transistors together. Early transistors worked fine at audio frequencies, and were much more efficient, using much less battery power. They could not perform at radio frequencies, however. Vacuum tubes had been used at radio frequencies for many years, but the push to miniaturise them led to lower performance. Even the subminiature types (about the diameter of a cigarette) still used a lot of battery power to operate. The hybrid radio used valves in the radio frequency end (usually three) and transistors in the audio end (usually two). This design made best use of the advantages of valves and transistors. Transistor development was rapid, and all-transistor radios appeared soon after hybrid sets were marketed. They were only available as battery portables. Hybrid sets are among the rarest of mass-produced radios.
You get two transistors and put them in a radio.
"Solid State" refers to any electronic device, in this case a radio, that functions on transistors and crystals, rather than vacuum tubes or other heated-filament components. Its basically synonymous with "transistorized."
Transistors are made from semiconductor materials. Silicon transistors are currently the most common.COMMONSiliconGermaniumGallium-Arsenide (GaAs)Silcon-GermaniumGallium Nitride (GaN)DiamondRARE
How about 1957, when RCA came out with the first portable AM radio (at least in the States)? I still have it and it works. It used germanium transistors and was a real battery hog. It was an expensive item for the time and of course, the odd, round 9 volt battery is no longer available.
Norm Dye has written: 'Radio frequency transistors' -- subject(s): Power transistors, Radio frequency Amplifiers, Transistor amplifiers, Transistor radio transmitters
Perhaps you are referring to a radio built using transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
Integrated circuits (in many microprocessor integrated circuits) containing many billions of transistors each.
758 Million transistors.
One form of hybrid radio, appearing in the late 1950s, used valves (vacuum tubes) and transistors together. Early transistors worked fine at audio frequencies, and were much more efficient, using much less battery power. They could not perform at radio frequencies, however. Vacuum tubes had been used at radio frequencies for many years, but the push to miniaturise them led to lower performance. Even the subminiature types (about the diameter of a cigarette) still used a lot of battery power to operate. The hybrid radio used valves in the radio frequency end (usually three) and transistors in the audio end (usually two). This design made best use of the advantages of valves and transistors. Transistor development was rapid, and all-transistor radios appeared soon after hybrid sets were marketed. They were only available as battery portables. Hybrid sets are among the rarest of mass-produced radios.
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A device such as a radio can be said to be transistorized when earlier designs are replaced by designs in which transistors replace vacuum tubes.
millions and more
About 5000.
4billion
normally 2300
ICs have been built with as few as two to as many as hundreds of billions of transistors. I believe the first germanium prototype IC built by Kilby may have had only one transistor (it was an integrated circuit not for having many transistors, but because it integrated both resistors and transistors into a single germanium crystal).