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Author Zygmont, Jeffrey.

Title Microchip : an idea, its genesis, and the revolution it created / Jeffrey Zygmont.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Perseus, [2003]
©2003

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 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  338.761 ZYG    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.761 Z99    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  338.761 ZYG    Check Shelf
Description xxii, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Changing minds -- Laying the foundation: Thinking small -- Wild west -- First contact -- Team choices -- Chipping away -- Calculated gains -- Adding contenders -- Common ground -- Great debates -- Building the house: Changing guards -- Computers for cooks -- Call forwarding -- Common computing -- New language -- Building muscles -- Epilogue: Mutual aid -- Notes -- Index.
Summary Business and technology journalist Zygmont presents a popular history of the development and proliferation of the computer microchip (also known as the integrated circuit). He begins the story in the 1950s with Jack Kilby's researches into electronics miniaturization and continues with portraits of the various technological innovators and explanations of their key ideas. Also discussed are the companies involved in the technology's growth.
Subject Integrated circuits -- History.
Computer industry -- United States -- History.
Computer engineering -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0738205613: $25.00
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