Inventors & Engineers · Digital
Robert Noyce & Gordon Moore
From the traitorous eight to Fairchild and Intel: Noyce's planar integrated circuit, Moore's law, the first microprocessor, and the flat, equity-heavy culture that defined Silicon Valley.
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Prereqs: Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain. Next: Wozniak & Jobs; The Innovators. Sources: Leslie Berlin, *The Man Behind the Microchip* (2005); Gordon Moore, 'Cramming more components onto integrated circuits', *Electronics* (1965); Arnold Thackray et al., *Moore's Law* (2015).Next: 1. Timeline