 Philips Semiconductor Memorabilia Company: Philips Semiconductor Based: Eindhoven, Netherlands Founded: 1993 from Phillips Component division (became NXP Semiconductor in 2006) Founders: Gerard Philips & Anton Philips (Philips Company 1893) Specialty: Manufacturer of transistors, & integrated circuits for logic, memory (including PROM, EEPROM, RAM and DRAM), micro-controller, display driver, power, demodulator, radio receiver, transceiver, digital processing. |
Philips transistor radio engineer kit (1966)
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Philips Semiconductor Lock-fit Transistor Keychain (1966)
Item #1006
This promotional acrylic keychain from Philips Semiconductor contains one of their Lock-Fit, general-purpose, low power, silicon NPN bipolar junction, BC Series transistors.
Plastic encapsulated Lock-fit transistors were first introduced by Phillips in 1966 as an alternative to the TO18 type transistor package, but were not universally accepted since the plastic TO92 package had also just been introduced.
Lock-fit transistors were created in 1963 as a joint project between Phillips and British semiconductor company Mullard Ltd.
Plastic encapsulated Lock-fit transistors were first introduced by Phillips in 1966 as an alternative to the TO18 type transistor package, but were not universally accepted since the plastic TO92 package had also just been introduced.
Lock-fit transistors were created in 1963 as a joint project between Phillips and British semiconductor company Mullard Ltd.
