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American Experience | Silicon Valley Preview | PBS

Duration: 00:30
Program: Silicon Valley: American Experience
Broadcast Date: Feb. 20, 2013

Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.

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Post Date: December 20, 2012