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Iowa, Pigs, Microchips, and Founding Silicon Valley (joshldavis.com)
3 points by davis on June 21, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


It's a fun story. I would venture to guess that each of the 'traitorous 8' had their moments that would have changed the course of their lives and of Silicon Valley. Least of which is Andy Grove, whose dogged pursuit of process repeatability is what enabled Fairchild to mass produce their circuits.




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