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Intel & the Microprocessor
Noyce, Moore and Grove built the company that put a computer on a chip, survived by abandoning its original business, ruled the PC era with x86 and 'Intel Inside', then missed mobile and lost the manufacturing lead. A case study in strategic inflection points.
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Prereqs: Chip War (Books); Moats. Next: Microsoft. Sources: Andy Grove's *Only the Paranoid Survive* (1996), Michael Malone's *The Intel Trinity* (2014), Computer History Museum.Next: 1. Founding and the microprocessor