The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

Reid, T.R.

ISBN 10: 0375758283 / ISBN 13: 9780375758287

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375758283
• ISBN 13: 9780375758287
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

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 began.

About the Author

T.R. Reid is the author of five books in English and two in Japanese. Through his reporting for The Washington Post, his syndicated weekly column, and his light-hearted commentary from around the world for National Public Radio, he has become one of America’s best-known foreign correspondents. Reid lives in London.