Silicon Valley [videorecording] / [presented by] American Experience Films ; a Film Posse production for American Experience ; produced by Randall MacLowry and Tracy Heather Strain ; a story by Randall MacLowry ; telescript by Randall MacLowry and Michelle Ferrari ; directed and edited by Randall MacLowry ; WGBH.
Subtitle from container and disc menu: Where the future was born. Narrator, Michael Murphy.
Contents:
The birth of Silicon Valley -- Shockley Semiconductor -- The traitorous eight -- The space race -- Mass producing a reliable product -- The integrated circuit -- Fairchild increase competition -- Fairchildren splinters -- Intel and the microprocessor.
Summary:
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.
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