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The Chip
- Author
- T.R. Reid
- Narrator
- Tom Perkins
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 20 October 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Biography: general, Biography: science, technology and medicine, History of Computing, digital and information technologies, History of engineering and technology, Technology: general issues, Science: general issues, History of engineering and technology, Information technology: general topics, History of science
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- Author
- T.R. Reid
- Narrator
- Tom Perkins
- Duration
- 9 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781705237083
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Biography: science, technology and medicine, History of Computing, digital and information technologies, History of engineering and technology, Technology: general issues, Science: general issues, History of engineering and technology, Information technology: general topics, History of science
Synopsis
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. In this completely revised and updated edition of The Chip, T. R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their invention and of its growth into a global information industry. This is the story of how the digital age began.
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