Chip How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

Name: Chip How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
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ISBN: 9780375758287

ISBN-10: 0375758283

ISBN-13: 9780375758287

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: T. R. Reid

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

The author of five books in English and two in Japanese. Through his reporting for The Washington Post, his syndicated weekly column, and his lighthearted commentary from around the world for National Public Radio, he has become one of America's best-known foreign correspondents. Reid lives in London.




The Monolithic Idea



The Will to Think



A Nonobvious Solution



Leap of Insight



Kilby v. Noyce



The Real Miracle



Blasting Off



The Implosion



DIM-I



Sunset, Sunrise



The Patriarchs


Author's Note


A Note about Sources


Notes


Index