Semiconductors
The industry where Moore's Law, extreme capital intensity and geopolitics intersect; now the centre of great-power competition.
8 books · 1 people behind it
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- Chip WarChris Miller, 2022
- Only the Paranoid SurviveAndrew S. Grove, 1996
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Executives 1
Books 8
Andrew S. Grove · 1996 · Insider account by Intel's CEO of the memory-to-microprocessor pivot.
T1 Chip War
Chris Miller · 2022 · The standard account of semiconductors as strategic terrain.
T2 The Chip
T. R. Reid · 1984 · Kilby, Noyce and the invention of the integrated circuit.
T2 Crystal Fire
Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson · 1997 · The transistor at Bell Labs and the birth of the information age.
Leslie Berlin · 2005 · Robert Noyce, Fairchild and the founding of Intel.
T3 The Supermen
Charles J. Murray · 1997 · Seymour Cray and the supercomputer business he built and lost
Joel N. Shurkin · 2006 · Shockley and the accidental seeding of Silicon Valley.