Full name: The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

Author: T. R. Reid Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780375758287 0375758283

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. Similar books: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik Accidental empires by Robert X. Cringely How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger Insanely Great by Steven Levy Connections by James Burke Automate This by Christopher Steiner A computer called LEO by Georgina Ferry The Master Switch by Tim Wu Inviting Disaster by James R. Chiles