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The Intel Trinity

Disciplines:
technology entrepreneurship/silicon valley
semiconductors/intel
business biography
semiconductors/semiconductor history

Summary

Michael Malone's 2014 biography of Intel covering Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove — the three leaders who built Intel from a startup to the dominant semiconductor company.

Core Contribution

Provides the most comprehensive account of Intel's founding and growth — the three very different personalities (visionary Noyce, scientist Moore, operational genius Grove) whose complementary contributions created the most important semiconductor company.

Historical Influences

Michael Malone

Intellectual Lineage

Silicon Valley Business Biography Michael Malone Technology Journalism

Allied Works

Only the Paranoid Survive The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce

Contemporaries & Peers

Only the Paranoid Survive The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce

Minds Influenced

Intel historical recordFounders podcast semiconductor content

Intellectual Posterity

The Intel Trinity Intel founding account

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