to cheap electronic components, would not be repaired but merely discarded when worn out.

Their first transistors were of the silicon mesa variety, innovative for their time, but exhibiting relatively poor reliability.

Fairchild's first marketed transistor was the 1958 2N697, a mesa transistor developed by Moore, and it was a success. The first batch of 100 was sold to IBM for $150 apiece in order to build the computer for the

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