The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley - Hardcover

Malone, Michael S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385183518 ISBN 13: 9780385183512

Publisher: Doubleday, 1985

Synopsis

An investigative, behind-the-scenes report on the semiconductor/computer industry traces the history of Silicon Valley and the electronics industry, and the entrepreneurs, innovations, industrial espionage, drug scene, and other realities of Silicon Valley

About this title

From Library Journal:

Originally in public relations at Hewlett-Packard and later with the San Jose Mercury News covering the electronics industry, Malone brings considerable firsthand knowledge to his treatment of the birth and evolution of Silicon Valley and the semiconductor/computer industry. He has brought together biographical sketches of the key personalities and the facts of the development of the key industries: HP, Fairchild Semi-Conductor, Intel, etc. To these he adds far more explicit detail and personal insight than is found in many works on Silicon Valley. But he also presents a more depressing picture: the destructiveness of the new lifestyle on personal relationships, the drug abuse, the grey-collar crime, the espionage, etc. Stability and moderation seem to be in short supply. This is an interesting, but pessimistic, analysis of the past and future of Silicon Valley. Hilary D. Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Labs., Univ. of California, Livermore
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0385183518
• ISBN 13: 9780385183512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442