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Chip Wars and The Most Important Company You’ve Never Heard Of

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The Rise and Fall of Chris Semiconductor

Chris Semiconductor innovation was a particularly US phenomenon in its early days. The Pentagon and NASA were the initial buyers because they had big budgets. But then the companies that defined early Silicon Valley managed to scale up, not by selling to the government, but by selling to a vast consumer market.

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