3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American technology journalist and author who has covered Silicon Valley since the early 1980s — writing The Intel Trinity, Bill and Dave (HP biography), and dozens of other Silicon Valley histories — making him one of the most comprehensive chroniclers of the Valley's history.
Michael Malone's 1984 account of the early Silicon Valley — tracing the founders of HP, Intel, and the semiconductor industry through the personal stories of their founders — one of the first serious histories of the Valley.
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.