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How Two Motorola Transistors Became the World’s Default NPNs

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Registered by Motorola in 1962 and the mid-1960s, the 2N2222 and 2N3904 outlasted thousands of rivals through process innovation, cheap packaging, and a JEDEC numbering system that turned them into multi-sourced commodities.
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How Two Motorola Transistors Became the World’s Default NPNs

Registered by Motorola in 1962 and the mid-1960s, the 2N2222 and 2N3904 outlasted thousands of rivals through process innovation, cheap packaging, and a JEDEC numbering system that turned them into multi-sourced commodities.

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allaboutcircuits.com broke the news on Friday, April 10, 2026.
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