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A chemist and founder of Intel, Gordon Moore played a major role in revolutionizing technology and shaping the growth and reach of Silicon Valley. The story of the man -- an inventor and businessman whose influence on the world is at least as great as Thomas Edisons, Henry Fords, or Bill Gates-- has never before been told. Under Moores leadership, Intel became the worlds leading semiconductor supplier; the innovative technology he helped to develop is present in everything from computers to traffic lights, phones to medical equipment--indeed, his seminal work on transistors has driven computing from the era of clunky calculators the size of football fields to the era of Siri, and has enabled us to go everywhere from the Moon to the Matrix. The progress of that revolution is captured in Moores Law, his observation that computing power has doubled roughly every two years for the past half-century. The result is threefold: computing has become cheap, powerful, and ubiquitous. Gordon Moore, as an engineer and CEO of Intel, was both prophet and prime mover of the ensuing Information Age. In The Quiet Revolutionary, Arnold Thackray sheds light on Gordon Moore, gives context to the technologies and world of high-tech power he helped to develop, and provides a clear and accessible introduction to the history and science of the silicon transistor, the technological building block that has transformed commercial business, defense strategies, and the everyday lives of individuals around the globe.--;The Moores of Pescadero. Into the unknown ; Boom years and family senescence ; Pescadero pastorale -- The chemistry of romance. Out of the back woods ; Boy meets girl -- Chemical apprentice. Berkeley and the big game ; Twos company -- Science, Shockley, and silicon. Cold War ; Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory ; Where theres a will ... -- Launch. Start-up ; Thinking big -- Emerging realities. Setting a frame ; Learning to lead ; The microchip -- The invention of Intel. Always in a hurry ; Into production ; A going concern -- The real revolution. Silicon Valley, USA ; The revolution takes hold -- The great cost-reduction machine. Settling in ; Challenges, changes, continuities -- Revolution, Sturm und Drang. Rising waves ; From memory to microprocessors and Microsoft -- Onward and outward. Chairman of the board ; Chairman emeritus ; Public, private, philanthropic -- Coda. A legacy aborning.;Our world today-from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon-has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history as dramatically as any political or social revolution. At the heart of it all has been one quiet Californian: Gordon Moore. At Fairchild Semiconductor, his seminal Silicon Valley startup, Moore-a young chemist turned electronics entrepreneur-had the defining insight: silicon transistors, and microchips made of them, could make electronics profoundly cheap and immensely powerful. Microchips could double in power, then redouble again in clockwork fashion. History has borne out this insight, which we now call Moores Law, and Moore himself, having recognized it, worked endlessly to realize his vision. With Moores technological leadership at Fairchild and then at his second start-up, the Intel Corporation, the law has held for fifty years. The result is profound: from the days of enormous, clunky computers of limited capability to our new era, in which computers are placed everywhere from inside of our bodies to the surface of Mars. Moore led nothing short of a revolution. In Moores Law, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative account of Gordon Moores life and his role in the development both of Silicon Valley and the transformative technologies developed there. Told by a team of writers with unparalleled access to Moore, his family, and his contemporaries, this is the human story of man and a career that have had almost superhuman effects. The history of twentieth-century technology is littered with overblown revolutions. Moores Law is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn what a real revolution looks like.--

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MORE ADVANCE PRAISE FOR MOORES LAW

Finally, Gordon Moore gets the biography he deserves! One of the foremost pioneers of the digital revolution, he is a visionary, engineer, and revered leader. His law defined and guided the growth of computing power, and his business acumen helped to create Silicon Valley. This is an inspiring and instructive tale of how brilliance and leadership can coexist with humility and decency in a truly extraordinary person.

WALTER ISAACSON,

author of Steve Jobs

Moores Law is not only a definitive biography of a legendary figure in computing, but a fascinating account of the forces that triggeredand sustainthe digital revolution that has changed life for all of us.

STEVEN LEVY,

author of Hackers and In the Plex

If you think you know Moores Law, prepare to be enlightened. If you think you know Gordon Moore, prepare to be enthralled. And if all of this is new to you, prepare for the ride of your life. This is the definitive story of the central theorem of the digital age, the man behind it, and its ongoing impact on us all.

JOHN HOLLAR,

President & CEO, Computer History Museum

With care and color, Moores Law tells us how Gordon Moore, at the center of the IT revolution, applied his knowledge and insight in a quiet and effective way. When Gordon talked, everyone listened.

GEORGE P. SHULTZ, former US Secretary of State and

Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the

Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Gordon Moores story is one of disruptive innovation on the grandest scale, practiced by a brilliant technologist. Now at last we have the book that tells the story. Moores Law offers a compelling, absorbing account of Silicon Valley, and its role in human progress.

CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN,

author of The Innovators Dilemma

A remarkable book about a remarkable man, told with great style and refreshing candor.

CARVER MEAD, winner of the

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Almost everyone knows Moores Law. Almost no one knows the Moore behind this law. Finally a book describing the quiet, unassuming technology godfather of Silicon Valley. A great read about a great man whose work truly changed the world.

CRAIG R. BARRETT,

Former CEO and Chairman, Intel Corporation

Arnold Thackray and his co-authors integrate business history with the history of science and technology with great success, rendering this biography of Silicon Valleys most important revolutionary a captivating and deeply illuminating read. Moores Law is also a signal contribution to the study of California history.

DAVID A. HOLLINGER,

Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, Emeritus,

University of California, Berkeley

This marvelous and well-written book about Gordon Moore captures his seminal role not only in Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corp, but also in the saga of Silicon Valley. The authors tell how Intel was managed into one of the great successes of all time. Gordon Moore in his quiet, non-threatening, and brainy manner created an atmosphere in which new ideas flourished and growth was encouraged. Moores Law, his remarkable insight, has proved prescient. Woven into this story is the modest and loving relationship between Gordon and Betty, his wife of 65 years.

ARTHUR ROCK,

Co-Founder of Silicon Valley venture capital firm

Davis & Rock and original investor of Fairchild Semiconductor

A remarkable insight into the man who did so much to make Silicon Valley.

DAVID MORGENTHALER,

founder of Silicon Valley venture capital firm

Morgenthaler Ventures

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For Betty

We are bringing about the next great revolution in the history of mankindthe transition to the electronic age.

GORDON MOORE, 1976

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The call proved fateful. At the time, it seemed merely unusual. In February 1956, not even scientific celebrities routinely telephoned long distance, especially if it was a simple matter of contacting an unknown young nerd.

The celebrity was William Shockley, renowned researcher and defense consultant, the nerd a postdoctoral chemist named Gordon Moore, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Moore had just arrived home from work at a government-funded, Cold Waroriented lab. He was tired and more than ready for the dinner his stay-at-home wife, Betty, had prepared. One-year-old son Ken was in his high chair. The cat was nosing its bowl. It was an ordinary end to an ordinary day.

The phone rang. Answering machines were unknown, so Moore perforce picked up: Hello? The response, deep and confident: This is Shockley. Moore knew the name right away. William Bradford Shockley was a certified scientific god, revered as one of the worlds leading solid-state physicists, coinventor of the eras most promising breakthrough in electronicsthe transistorfor which he would shortly be awarded the Nobel Prize. The transistor was a wholly new type of on-off switch, a semiconductor, offering tantalizing possibilities in military applications. Moore, who had recently heard Shockley lecture at the Cosmos Club in nearby Washington, DC, was shocked to realize a star was on the line.

But why was Shockley calling? The reason quickly emerged. His unabashed boast was that he was hiring the best and brightest young PhDs to join his venture in the little-known town of Mountain View, California. The aim? To perfect and mass-produce a novel silicon-based version of the transistor. This minute, solid device, no bigger than a fingernail, would be composed of silicon treated chemically in complex ways. It promised unprecedented standards of reliability to electronic devices. Shockley was counting on the reality that, in high-stakes defense markets, performance always trumped mere price. To accomplish his ambition, he urgently needed a competent chemist. He knew that Moore had recently turned down a position at a nuclear weapons lab in California. Might this young scientist be interested in the race to produce a reliable silicon transistor instead?

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