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#8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company

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The Biggest Obstacle to the Invention of the CPU on a Chip

Inventor of microprocessors was a guy named hoff. People were so used to thinking of computers as these big expenses pieces expensive pieces of equipment That had to be protected and guarded and babyed. So there was this built-in bias in people that any computer had to be treated that way I remember saying a light bulb burns out you unscrew it and throw it away and you put another one in. But they just couldn't accept doing that with the computer. The biggest obstacle to the adoption of these new processors wasn't simply a failure of imagination by potential customers but also intelles own indecisiveness.

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