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THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 4

By Marguerite Volland · 4 parts · 16 h 37 min · English

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Palo Alto and Mountain View, 1957 to 1968. Eight men leave a laboratory with no product, no plant and no capital, and within a year they are shipping the fastest silicon transistor in the world. The money comes from Sherman Fairchild, who holds more IBM stock than anyone alive: $1.38 million against an option to buy them out for three million. Jean Hoerni leaves an oxide layer where everyone else scrubbed it away. Robert Noyce works out how to lay the wiring down in the same photographic step that makes the devices. By 1968 the division they built is the biggest part of its parent, is losing money, and the two founders still inside it resign eight days apart. Covers Sherman Fairchild, Jean Hoerni, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Charlie Sporck, Jerry Sanders, Bob Widlar, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation.

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  2. Part 02

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  3. Part 03

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  4. Part 04

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Books in this series

  1. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 1

    4 parts · 12 h 31 min

  2. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 2

    4 parts · 16 h 47 min

  3. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 3

    4 parts · 16 h 2 min

  4. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 4

    4 parts · 16 h 37 min

  5. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 1 min

  6. THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 6

    4 parts · 12 h 53 min