Moore's Law by Thackray, Arnold -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Prelude

“This Is Shockley” What Is Moore’s Law? The Real Revolutionary The Enigma California Local

Chapter 1. The Moores of Pescadero

Into the Unknown

Eli Moore Hears the Call California: Land of Opportunity Santa Cruz, Entrepreneurship, and the Gold Rush Pescadero Pioneers

Boom Years and Family Senescence

Settling Down A Sea Passage to Pescadero Children of a New Era Over the Top Normalcy, Prohibition, and Lawful Life

Pescadero Pastorale

Good Times in Bad Times The Sins of the Fathers Huntin’, Shootin’, and Fishin’ Walter: The Local Moore’s Law School Days Looking Back, Looking Forward

Chapter 2. The Chemistry of Romance

Out of the Back Woods

Worlds Aborning Electric Magic Electronics Enters Ordinary Life New Home, New Life The Romance of Chemistry Athletics and War The Sheriff and the Blind Eye Big Bangs Ready to Move On

Boy Meets Girl

San Jose State Enter Betty Whitaker Life on the Ranch Growing Up The Chemistry of Romance

Chapter 3. Chemical Apprentice

Berkeley and the Big Game

Cloyne Court Nobel Science Rockets and Rose Bowls Betty in Berkeley Elite Aspirations

Two’s Company

Life Choices A Fresh Milieu Tracking Down Badger Luminous Personalities Life Outside the Lab Friends, Acquaintances, Losses Research and Publication Professor Moore? Heading East

Chapter 4. Science, Shockley, and Silicon

Cold War

Missiles, Bombs, and Electronics Meanwhile, at Home in Maryland . . . Computers and Transistors, Ahoy! Looking for Change “Hello, This Is Shockley” Silicon, Chemistry, and Bell Labs

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

Beckman, Shockley, and Affairs of the Heart Enter Gordon Complications Galore Out of the Loop Things Fall Apart

Where There’s a Will . . .

Realization Dawns The Die Is Cast The Traitorous Eight

Chapter 5. Launch

Start-Up

Inventing Fairchild Semiconductor Making the Mesa Where’s the Boss? Transistors, Texas, and Virtual Reality The Call of the Valkyrie Realizing the Product Going for Broke

Thinking Big

An All-Silicon Future Particles and Possibilities Defection and Reorganization Men and Booze Planar Takes Off Gordon at Home

Chapter 6. Emerging Realities

Setting a Frame

More Defense for the Dollar A Silicon Valley? New Directions and Dynamics Moore’s Law in Prospect The Changing Face of Electronics

Learning to Lead

Vectoring a Lab The Last Entry in the Ledger The Two Worlds of Fairchild Semiconductor Advances and Setbacks The Promise and Perils of MOS Renewed Direction

The Microchip

From Proof to Persuasion Moore’s Law Failure and Frustrations Making Strides Creative Destruction Rescue and Meltdown

Chapter 7. The Invention of Intel

Always in a Hurry

The Game Plan Obfuscations and Resources Strategy, People, and Premises “Goldilocks” and a Christmas Bet

Into Production

Pinholes and Progress The DRAM and the Microprocessor Interlude: Keeping Close

A Going Concern

Funding Success Second Sourcing A Race for Glory The Blind Eye: Grove, Graham, and Gelbach Vindication: The IPO

Chapter 8. The Real Revolution

Silicon Valley, USA

Convergence and Competition Refining the Leadership The Challenges of Growth The $15 Million Wristwatch Transistors by the Trillion A New Sparta? Staying Grounded

The Revolution Takes Hold

War, Weapons, and Winning Microprocessor Rising Where Lies the Future? Embargo, Interdependence, and Revolution Crisis, Cosmic Rays, and Computers Loosening Ties Making Hay, Dodging Rain

Chapter 9. The Great Cost-Reduction Machine

Settling In

Decision Time Moore’s Law Revisited Moore’s Boom Chips with Everything

Challenges, Changes, Continuities

Managing the Machine Fifteen New Intels? Mr. Reliable Betty; or, The Noncorporate Wife Fathers and Sons Home Computers? 100 Trillion Transistors?

Chapter 10. Revolution, Sturm Und Drang

Rising Waves

Apples and Opportunities Family Values Priming the Printing Press Killing with Quality: Japan

From Memory to Microprocessors and Microsoft

CEO and Chairman Crushing and Crashing Electronic Reality, 1980 In the Mouth of the Whale Self-Help: The Family Foundation Treadmill, Tracking, and Transformation The DRAM Decision Sole Sourcing Wintel to the Rescue

Chapter 11. Onward and Outward

Chairman of the Board

Microprocessors and the PC Risks and RISC Electronics Rule Road Maps Losses and Gains Changing Scenes

Chairman Emeritus

“Intel Inside” Moore’s Law and the Silicocene Exeunt Gordon

Public, Private, Philanthropic

California to Hawaii Exponential Assets Serious Giving Making a Difference Cracks Appear Family Business Whose Foundation?

Coda

A Legacy Aborning Family Man Philanthropy and Ambiguity Transistors Triumphant The Metronome of Moore’s Law All Good Exponentials End

Essay on Sources Acknowledgments Index

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