Target Components has appointed a new managing director after the departure of former boss Paul Cubbage last year. After a "lengthy process" that lasted "many.
The Transistor
I studied electronics at college and then worked in the electronics industry for 10 years designing circuit boards, before making the move into IT. Transistors are at the heart of all modern day electronics, and it’s fair to say that very little of the technology we have now would have been possible had it not been for the invention of the transistor. These started life as fairly large devices, but soon started to become smaller, and eventually transistor radios became the first real portable application of transistors back in the 1950’s. Transistors have been getting smaller and smaller over the years, and now we have CPU devices that contain billions of transistors in something smaller than a matchbox. So in terms of the technology I couldn’t live without, this has to take the top spot – often overlooked and hidden away, these tiny devices are pretty much powering the World, keeping us mobile and allowing us to communicate with anyone, anywhere.