[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #618, aired 1987-04-22 [PAR] Scott Myers, a teacher from Covina, California. Marian Evans Melnick, a former 
bank manager ... Replacing germanium with this in transistors got a California "
Valley" named after it ... Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):... [DOC] [TLE] How did Silicon Valley get its name? - Quora [PAR] Building on Newton Kishore's answer. Ion Equipment Corporation founder Ralph 
Vaerst ... Germanium was a higher speed material but had more current leakage. 
... See 1954 - Silicon Transistors Offer Superior Operating Characteristics .... After 
returning to California Institute of Technology for a short while, Shockley moved... [DOC] [TLE] Silicon Valley - Wikipedia [PAR] Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay 
Area, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. The "valley" in its name 
refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara .... After returning to California 
Institute of Technology for a short while, Shockley moved to Mountain View, 
California,... [DOC] [TLE] Who Invented the Transistor? | Computer History Museum [PAR] Dec 4, 2013 ... Early that same year, while examining a phenomenon he called ... the silicon 
transistor, first from Morris Tanenbaum at Bell Labs and shortly after by a team ... 
a start-up in California's Silicon Valley, started their company on the ... individual 
transistors had largely been replaced by ICs in computer systems. [DOC] [TLE] Dec. 23, 1947: Transistor Opens Door to Digital Future | WIRED [PAR] Dec 23, 2009 ... It's been called the most important invention of the 20th century. ... Following 
more experiments, germanium replaced silicon, which ... Prize in Physics for the 
transistor, but the trio never worked together after the first ... Shockley 
Semiconductor in Mountain View, California  one of the .... Get Our Newsletter... [DOC] [TLE] With silicon pushed to its limits, what will power the next electronics ... [PAR] Aug 27, 2015 ... The rate of progress since the first silicon transistor in 1947 has been ... of 
electrons circling around the nucleus after electrons have been pushed out. ... 
Germanium was the first material used for semiconductor devices, so really this 
.... Silicon Valley in Northern California got its nickname from the multitude... [DOC] [TLE] An Outline of the History of the Transistor - PBS [PAR] Silicon Valley ... "The transistor was probably the most important invention of the 
20th Century ... After the end of World War II, Kelly put together a team of 
scientists to develop a solid-state semiconductor switch to replace the 
problematic vacuum tube. ... When Bardeen and Brattain called Shockley to tell 
him of the invention,... [DOC] [TLE] Cordray-Jeopardy-Analysis/618.html at master  sunlightlabs ... [PAR] <td id="clue_J_2_2" class="clue_text">Tree named for the resemblance of its ..... 
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.... Replacing germanium with silicon in transistors got a California "Valley"... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Transistor - San Jose State University [PAR] While he could work out the theory successfully but after eight years of trying he 
could ... Shockley subsequently designed a new type of transistor called the "
bipolar" transistor which was superior to the point- contact type and replaced it. ... 
He did his undergraduate work at the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech
) in... [DOC] [TLE] After Moore's law | Technology Quarterly | The Economist [PAR] Mar 12, 2016 ... After a glorious 50 years, Moore's lawwhich states that computer power ... IN 
1971 a small company called Intel released the 4004, its first ever 
microprocessor. ... The transistors on the Skylake chips Intel makes today would 
..... Linley Gwennap, who runs the Linley Group, a firm of Silicon Valley analysts. [DOC] [TLE] Changing the Transistor Channel - IEEE Spectrum [PAR] Jun 24, 2013 ... Ending silicon's central role in transistors

Question: Replacing germanium with this in transistors got a California "Valley" named after it
Answer: silicon