The Chip

In this completely revised and updated edition of The Chip, T. R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of the men whose vision and courage turned a scientific dream into a reality. He shows how they overcame more than a dozen seemingly insurmountable obstacles on their way to creating the microchip, which made possible the computer revolution and transformed the world economy. This is the story of how we got to where we are today: a world with billions of Internet-linked computers and cell phones in constant communication with each other — yet it all began here, in an obscure lab at Texas Instruments in Dallas nearly half a century.