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• Title:Moore's law : the life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's quiet revolutionary / Arnold Thackray, David Brock, Rachel Jones.
  
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• Author/Creator:Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Brock, David C.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
  

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  • Call Number: HD9696.S42 M668 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Moore, Gordon E., 1929-2023.
  Intel Corporation.
  Businessmen--United States--Biography.
  Semiconductor industry--United States.
  Moore's law.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Description:xxviii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Our world today-from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon-has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history as dramatically as any political or social revolution. At the heart of it all has been one quiet Californian: Gordon Moore. At Fairchild Semiconductor, his seminal Silicon Valley startup, Moore-a young chemist turned electronics entrepreneur-had the defining insight: silicon transistors, and microchips made of them, could make electronics profoundly cheap and immensely powerful. Microchips could double in power, then redouble again in clockwork fashion. History has borne out this insight, which we now call "Moore's Law", and Moore himself, having recognized it, worked endlessly to realize his vision. With Moore's technological leadership at Fairchild and then at his second start-up, the Intel Corporation, the law has held for fifty years. The result is profound: from the days of enormous, clunky computers of limited capability to our new era, in which computers are placed everywhere from inside of our bodies to the surface of Mars. Moore led nothing short of a revolution. In Moore's Law, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative account of Gordon Moore's life and his role in the development both of Silicon Valley and the transformative technologies developed there. Told by a team of writers with unparalleled access to Moore, his family, and his contemporaries, this is the human story of man and a career that have had almost superhuman effects. The history of twentieth-century technology is littered with overblown "revolutions." Moore's Law is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn what a real revolution looks like. "-- Provided by publisher.
  "A chemist and founder of Intel, Gordon Moore played a major role in revolutionizing technology and shaping the growth and reach of Silicon Valley. The story of the man -- an inventor and businessman whose influence on the world is at least as great as Thomas Edison's, Henry Ford's, or Bill Gates'-- has never before been told. Under Moore's leadership, Intel became the world's leading semiconductor supplier; the innovative technology he helped to develop is present in everything from computers to traffic lights, phones to medical equipment--indeed, his seminal work on transistors has driven computing from the era of clunky calculators the size of football fields to the era of Siri, and has enabled us to go everywhere from the Moon to the Matrix. The progress of that revolution is captured in Moore's Law, his observation that computing power has doubled roughly every two years for the past half-century. The result is threefold: computing has become cheap, powerful, and ubiquitous. Gordon Moore, as an engineer and CEO of Intel, was both prophet and prime mover of the ensuing Information Age. In The Quiet Revolutionary, Arnold Thackray sheds light on Gordon Moore, gives context to the technologies and world of high-tech power he helped to develop, and provides a clear and accessible introduction to the history and science of the silicon transistor, the technological building block that has transformed commercial business, defense strategies, and the everyday lives of individuals around the globe. "-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780465055647 (hardback)
  0465055648 (hardback)
  9780465055623 (e-book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Moores Of Pescadero
  Into The Unknown
  Eli Moore Hears the Call
  California: Land of Opportunity
  Santa Cruz, Entrepreneurship, and the Gold Rush
  Pescadero Pioneers
  Boom Years And Family Senescence
  Settling Down
  Sea Passage to Pescadero
  Children of a New Era
  Over the Top
  Normalcy, Prohibition, and Lawful Life
  Pescadero Pastorale
  Good Times in Bad Times
  Sins of the Fathers
  Huntin', Shootin', and Fishin'
  Walter: The Local Moore's Law
  School Days
  Looking Back, Looking Forward
  ch. 2 Chemistry Of Romance
  Out Of The Back Woods
  Worlds Aborning
  Electric Magic
  Electronics Enters Ordinary Life
  New Home, New Life
  Romance of Chemistry
  Athletics and War
  Sheriff and the Blind Eye
  Big Bangs
  Ready to Move On
  Boy Meets Girl
  San Jose State
  Enter Betty Whitaker
  Life on the Ranch
  Growing Up
  Chemistry of Romance
  ch. 3 Chemical Apprentice
  Berkeley And The Big Game
  Cloyne Court
  Nobel Science
  Rockets and Rose Bowls
  Betty in Berkeley
  Elite Aspirations
  Two's Company
  Life Choices
  Fresh Milieu
  Tracking Down Badger
  Luminous Personalities
  Life Outside the Lab
  Friends, Acquaintances, Losses
  Research and Publication
  Professor Moore?
  Heading East
  ch. 4 Science, Shockley, And Silicon
  Cold War
  Missiles, Bombs, and Electronics
  Meanwhile, at Home in Maryland
  Computers and Transistors, Ahoy!
  Looking for Change
  "Hello, This Is Shockley"
  Silicon, Chemistry, and Bell Labs
  Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
  Beckman, Shockley, and Affairs of the Heart
  Enter Gordon
  Complications Galore
  Out of the Loop
  Things Fall Apart
  Where There's A Will
  Realization Dawns
  Die Is Cast
  Traitorous Eight
  ch. 5 Launch
  Start-UP
  Inventing Fairchild Semiconductor
  Making the Mesa
  Where's the Boss?
  Transistors, Texas, and Virtual Reality
  Call of the Valkyrie
  Realizing the Product
  Going for Broke
  Thinking Big
  All-Silicon Future
  Particles and Possibilities
  Defection and Reorganization
  Men and Booze
  Planar Takes Off
  Gordon at Home
  ch. 6 Emerging Realities
  Setting A Frame
  More Defense for the Dollar
  Silicon Valley?
  New Directions and Dynamics
  Moore's Law in Prospect
  Changing Face of Electronics
  Learning To Lead
  Vectoring a Lab
  Last Entry in the Ledger
  Two Worlds of Fairchild Semiconductor
  Advances and Setbacks
  Promise and Perils of MOS
  Renewed Direction
  Microchip
  From Proof to Persuasion
  Moore's Law
  Failure and Frustrations
  Making Strides
  Creative Destruction
  Rescue and Meltdown
  ch. 7 Invention Of Intel
  Always In A Hurry
  Game Plan
  Obfuscations and Resources
  Strategy, People, and Premises
  "Goldilocks" and a Christmas Bet
  Into Production
  Pinholes and Progress
  DRAM and the Microprocessor
  Interlude: Keeping Close
  Going Concern
  Funding Success
  Second Sourcing
  Race for Glory
  Blind Eye: Grove, Graham, and Gelbach
  Vindication: The IPO
  ch. 8 Real Revolution
  Silicon Valley, Usa
  Convergence and Competition
  Refining the Leadership
  Challenges of Growth
  $15 Million Wristwatch
  Transistors by the Trillion
  New Sparta?
  Staying Grounded
  Revolution Takes Hold
  War, Weapons, and Winning
  Microprocessor Rising
  Where Lies the Future?
  Embargo, Interdependence, and Revolution
  Crisis, Cosmic Rays, and Computers
  Loosening Ties
  Making Hay, Dodging Rain
  ch. 9 Great Cost-Reduction Machine
  Settling In
  Decision Time
  Moore's Law Revisited
  Moore's Boom
  Chips with Everything
  Challenges, Changes, Continuities
  Managing the Machine
  Fifteen New Intels?
  Mr. Reliable
  Betty; or, The Noncorporate Wife
  Fathers and Sons
  Home Computers?
  100 Trillion Transistors?
  ch. 10 Revolution, Sturm Und Drang
  Rising Waves
  Apples and Opportunities
  Family Values
  Priming the Printing Press
  Killing with Quality: Japan
  From Memory To Microprocessors And Microsoft
  CEO and Chairman
  Crushing and Crashing
  Electronic Reality, 1980
  In the Mouth of the Whale
  Self-Help: The Family Foundation
  Treadmill, Tracking, and Transformation
  DRAM Decision
  Sole Sourcing
  Wintel to the Rescue
  ch. 11 Onward And Outward
  Chairman Of The Board
  Microprocessors and the PC
  Risks and RISC
  Electronics Rule
  Road Maps
  Losses and Gains
  Changing Scenes
  Chairman Emeritus
  "Intel Inside"
  Moore's Law and the Silicocene
  Exeunt Gordon
  Public, Private, Philanthropic
  California to Hawaii
  Exponential Assets
  Serious Giving
  Making a Difference
  Cracks Appear
  Family Business
  Whose Foundation?
  Coda
  Legacy Aborning
  Family Man
  Philanthropy and Ambiguity
  Transistors Triumphant
  Metronome of Moore's Law
  All Good Exponentials End.