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An Open-Ended Conversation with Federico Faggin
youtube.comHyatt House. Their directive to Intel’s management corps was simple and clear: “We’re going to win in 16-bit microprocessors. We’re committed to this.” Andy told us what
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Then along came Curt Herzstark, a young man who in the 1920s regularly traveled through the former Austrian Empire selling mechanical calculators to banks and other businesses. It was on these travels that he heard the same complaints from his customers.
David Szondy • Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp
The origins of the current great surge, the fifth since the end of the eighteenth century, dates back to 1971 when the first microprocessor was developed by Intel, a company founded three years earlier by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore[46]. Thanks to the integration of all the key components of a computer on a single chip, the microprocessor would g
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Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
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