Failure to launch: Tarui Yasuo, the quadrupole transistor, and the meanings of the IC in postwar Japan

Hyungsub Choi; Takushi Otani

doi:10.1109/MAHC.2011.86

Failure to launch: Tarui Yasuo, the quadrupole transistor, and the meanings of the IC in postwar Japan

Hyungsub Choi, Takushi Otani

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Kibi International University

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In 1957, Tarui Yasuo filed a patent application for the quadrupole transistor, which could be seen as an important step toward the integrated circuit. Likely, the financial and ideological need to develop indigenous devices in postwar Japan oriented Tarui's vision into a particular direction, which in turn obstructed him from following up on this technological trajectory and realizing the significance of his achievement.

Original language	English
Article number	6109205
Pages (from-to)	48-59
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume	34
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2011.86
State	Published - Jan 2012

Keywords

Electrotechnical Laboratory
history of computing
integrated circuit
Japan
quadrupole transistor
Tarui Yasuo

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Failure to launch: Tarui Yasuo, the quadrupole transistor, and the meanings of the IC in postwar Japan

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