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. “Silicon Valley” premieres Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 8/7C on PBS. Learn more: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/
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