The Chip

Once gargantuan and costly, computers stumped engineers until two ingenious Americans, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, invented the silicon microchip. This stunning discovery, which earned Kilby a Nobel Prize, fundamentally launched the digital age. In this revised and updated edition of *The Chip*, T.R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their breakthrough and its transformation into a global information industry.

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