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New plant houses executive, engineering and marketing staffs and manufacturing facilities. Pace-Setting in Transistors RCA's New Somerville, N. J., facility produces complete semiconductor line By Dr. Alan M. Glover General Manager RCA Semiconductor Division T J-H .HE electronics industry — since the invention of the three-element vacuum tube in 1906 — has been speeded in its progress by one epochal development after another. But none in recent years has been as im- portant as the introduction of the transistor in 1948. Almost overnight this tiny, mighty newcomer sparked the industry to new growth and set in motion countless programs of research and development, with results that now are reaching sizeable proportions. As the outstanding pioneer in electronics develop- ment, RCA has been a major contributor to industrial progress. It is therefore only natural that our Company has become a pace-setter in the semiconductor industry. Important evidence of this may be seen by any traveler along Route 202, heading west from Somer- ville, N. J. On an 85-acre landscaped plot located two miles from Somerville, RCA has erected a modern industrial plant with 180,000 square feet of floor space to facilitate the design, development and manufacture of a complete line of transistors and diodes. Although the plant has been operating only since November 1956, expansion has been rapid. Today nearly 1,000 employees — a gain of approxi- mately 25 per cent since the first of this year —- are responsible for the engineering, production and market- ing of 19 different types of transistors and four semi- conductor diodes. The units are being rapidly absorbed by a constantly expanding number of applications in the entertainment field, industry and government. Aware from the beginning of the potentialities of the transistor, RCA began its commercial operations in a building of the corporation's Electron Tube Division at Harrison, N. J. Meanwhile, a search was started for a suitable site for a new plant. One of many possible locations, Somerville was finally selected because it came closest to meeting all requirements. First, the community is close to the RCA labora- tories at Princeton, N. J., where basic research and October, 1957