Download or read book The Man Behind the Microchip written by Leslie Berlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the life of a giant of the high-tech industry - co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel - and inventor of the integrated circuit, which is used in every modern computer, microwave, telephone and car.