This is based on something I read quite a few years ago, but IIRC, as a hands-on partner in Motorola (in its early days, he was its sole circuit designer) he le

This is based on something I read quite a few years ago, but IIRC, as a hands-on partner in Motorola (in its early days, he was its sole circuit designer) he led it into being an early adopter of transistors and other semiconductor devices. (If this is the basis for the quoted passage in the article then it is arguably misleading, but using transistors to make compact electronic devices required innovations in circuit design, and, in general, turning new technology into useful products requires vision and innovation.)