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Silicon Valley, where the future was born, A Film Posse production for American Experience

Label
Silicon Valley, where the future was born, A Film Posse production for American Experience
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Silicon Valley
Medium
videorecording DVD
Responsibility statement
A Film Posse production for American Experience
Runtime
90
Series statement
American experience
Sub title
where the future was born
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
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Classification