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semiconductor industry

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Andrew Grove

Andrew Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as CEO of Intel and drove the company to dominance in the microprocessor industry.

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Essay

The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce

Tom Wolfe's 1983 Esquire essay profiling Robert Noyce — co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel — which is widely considered the best single piece of writing about the founding culture of Silicon Valley.

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