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Author Berlin, Leslie, 1969-

Title The man behind the microchip : Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley / Leslie Berlin
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 402 pages) : illustrations
Contents Adrenaline and Gasoline -- Rapid Robert -- Apprenticeship -- Breakaway -- Invention -- A Strange Little Upstart -- Startup -- Takeoff -- The Edge of What's Barely Possible -- Renewal -- Political Entrepreneurship -- Public Startup -- Author's Interviews and Correspondence -- Robert Noyce's Patents
Summary This is the life of a giant of the high-tech industry - co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel - and inventor of the integrated circuit, which is used in every modern computer, microwave, telephone and car. This biography of Robert Noyce narrates his background, and his education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-383) and index
Notes English
Subject Noyce, Robert N., 1927-
SUBJECT Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton), 1927-1990 fast
Noyce, Robert N. swd
Subject Electronics engineers -- United States -- Biography
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Microelectronics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Digital.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
Electronics engineers
Computerindustrie
Micro-elektronica.
SUBJECT Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- History
Subject California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
United States
Silicon Valley
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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