“It’s fair to say that without Intel founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore today’s Silicon Valley startups wouldn’t exist,” Sarah Mitroff writes for Wired. “The prosaic reason is because Intel churned out the first microprocessors, the building blocks of today’s computing found in every smartphone, computer, and server (though not necessarily made by Intel). But the more poetic and far-reaching reason is that Moore and Noyce were among the first to walk away from a stable corporate job and pursue their own startup dreams.”
“The latest episode of PBS’s American Experience series, Silicon Valley, tells the story of how the choices Noyce, Moore, and several other young physicists shaped modern-day Silicon Valley,” Mitroff writes. “Unlike Bravo’s disastrous take on Silicon Valley’s culture and the questionable entrepreneurs trying to make it, PBS’s take is actually worth watching, especially if you want to learn the history of why so many people flock to The Valley with software code, hardware chops and dollars spinning in their heads. Silicon Valley airs Tuesday February 5 at 9:00pm EST.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Sarah” and “Ellis D.” for the heads up.]
I thawt Moore was a TV Show Lawyer…
Awww.. You know, “Moore’s Law”. It was on right after “Matlock”.
Pull over please! This the grammar police!!
You should not be in charge of a computer without your webmaster instructor!!!
Step beside your computer and spell “thought” 50 times!!!
Hell!!!!! the grammar police needs a grammar police! “This is the …”
Hey, you cant troll your own comments. It’s not fair to the rest of us.
Also, sometimes I spell words incorrectly for slang purposes, to let the reader know I’m parodying a stupid/dumb person. I’m not actually an idiot… Well that’s not true, but I am intelligent, mostly.
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer either, but by your own implied reasoning you’re saying you’re a smart idiot – have I got that right?
Remember…these guys didn’t create anything…it was the government.:)
Since this is on PBS, I’m sure you won’t be watching… 😉
I’ll watch it online @ pbs.org
Keep in mind kids that Apple started the PC business in 1977, with no Intel CPUs required until 2006.
IOW:
We never know everything about anything.
OR
KISS means Keep It Stupid, Stupid
OR
Do your homework and learn what REALLY happens in the world.
OR
Never accept what’s merely handed to you by the ignorami and the propagandi. There’s always more to learn.
Ziek! Gewoon verkregen een gloednieuwe Pearl en ik kan nu lees je weblog in de browser op mijn telefoon, het werkte niet op mijn oude.