The Chip, T.R. Reid
The Chip, T.R. Reid
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The Chip
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

Author: T.R. Reid

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/20/2020

Synopsis

Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. In this completely revised and updated edition of The Chip, T. R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their invention and of its growth into a global information industry. This is the story of how the digital age began.

About T.R. Reid

T. R. Reid is a longtime correspondent for the Washington Post and former chief of its Tokyo and London bureaus. He is a commentator for National Public Radio and has been a correspondent for several PBS documentaries. His bestselling books include The Healing of America, The United States of Europe, The Chip, and Confucius Lives Next Door.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric_W

Technophobes might as well move on to the next review. I loved this book. It explained in clear, precise language how innumerable barriers were overcome by innovative and insightfully brilliant individuals to create a device that revolutionized our lives. I've always been fascinated by electronics,......more

Goodreads review by Michael

The Chip is a humanistic look at one of the key inventions of the 20th century, the microchip which undergirds every digital change to our life. Thanks to chips, "just put a computer in it" has been a solution to almost every engineering problem, and the cause of a similar number of engineering prob......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

From start to finish, "The Chip" was a markedly insightful, thorough, broad-sweeping, and satisfying account of the inception of the micro-processor revolution. The author-- T.R. Reid, a journalist and technical writer-- provides an intriguing account of the seminal steps taken by the technology i......more

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