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Brock es historiador especializado en tecnología y semiconductores.

Known for: Moore's Law

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Moore's Law

Moore's Law

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Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary es una biografía detallada del cofundador de Intel, Gordon Moore, quien formuló la famosa ley que predijo el crecimiento exponencial de la capacidad de los microchips. El libro explora su vida personal, su papel en el desarrollo de la industria de los semiconductores y su impacto en la revolución tecnológica global.

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Curiosity Forged in California

Gordon Moore’s story begins in the rural simplicity of Pescadero and the coastal expanses of San Mateo County, California. It was a world that offered space to explore and the freedom to tinker—perfect for a boy fascinated by how things worked. The biography paints a vivid picture of a young Moore s...

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The Traitorous Eight and the Birth of Fairchild

After earning his doctorate, Moore joined William Shockley’s laboratory, a new firm built around the Nobel laureate’s pioneering transistor research. Yet, Shockley’s brilliance came packaged with authoritarian control and erratic behavior. The young scientists under him—among them Moore and Robert N...

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Brock es historiador especializado en tecnología y semiconductores.

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