This chapter explores the origins of Silicon Valley, highlighting a pivotal office building in Mountain View, California where the first Silicon devices were manufactured. It delves into the founding of companies by former laboratory workers and their significant impact on the growth of the Silicon electronics industry.
Why is Silicon Valley where it is? How did a narrow valley in California become the epicenter of the computer age? People usually say it’s because of Stanford, or the weather. But the answer may be something much more … Freudian. In this episode, Malcolm puts William Shockley—inventor of the transistor, winner of the Nobel Prize, father of Silicon Valley—on the couch.
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