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Silicon Valley [videorecording (DVD)]
Title:
Silicon Valley [videorecording (DVD)]

Where the future was born.

American experience (Television program)
Author:
MacLowry, Randall.

Strain, Tracy Heather. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99048879.

Ferrari, Michelle. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99030814.

Murphy, Michael, 1938- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85376809.

Kusiak, John. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008035931.

Willis, P. Andrew. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009016646.

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Film Posse (Firm)

American Experience Films.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Format:
DVD / Blu-ray
ISBN:
9781608838363
Subject Term:
Microelectronics industry -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) -- History.

Computer industry -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) -- History.

High technology industries -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) -- History.
Summary:
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.